Since the late 1980s the entwined forces of neoliberal capitalism, expanding conversation regimes, and legal frameworks of recognition have provoked the re-emergence of indigenous worlds in ways possibly unimaginable in ...

‘This Loved Philology’ re-examines the notion of philology as a term meaning ‘love of language’. This thesis juxtaposes the key practice of slow reading against secondary literary and language theory, and against creative ...

This project argues for a more nuanced understanding of performances that frame social interactions and technological mediations as aesthetic experience. Through observation, interviews, participation and dramaturgical ...

This PhD research asks the question: to what extent, and in what ways, does community radio contribute to communication for social change? Community radio remains a unique communication platform under digital capitalism, ...

In this thesis, I focus on the exhibition of a series of five sculptures in ‘Rainer Giese: Selected Works’, the solo exhibition of postwar German artist Imi Giese at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf in 1978. Giese had painted ...

In his nonfiction essay “In the Ruins of the Future: Reflections on Terror and Loss in the Shadow of September,” the novelist Don DeLillo proposes the concept of the counternarrative as a mode of response to what he sees ...

The purpose of this thesis is to expand existing literature concerning the hurdy-gurdy as a contemporary musical instrument. Notably, it addresses the lack of hurdy-gurdy literature in the context of contemporary composition ...

This dissertation explores the intersections between literature and environmental history in nineteenth-century English versions of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale literature. While the ...

The current epoch of a human-induced interval in geological history has been called the Anthropocene Age. This has been a focus of concern that has expanded from a scientific to a broadly cultural inquiry. This period of ...

This thesis examines the politics of intermediality in the context of contemporary German theatre. It focuses on the aesthetic and political commitment to intermediality – a mode of engagement that negotiates the relational ...