Graduate Student, English
Doctoral Candidate (American Literature, Critical Theory)
Arts & Sciences
Thesis Title: Affective Reconfigurations: Toward a New Politics of Difference for the 21st-Century’s U.S. Literary Community
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Dr. Naomi Mandel
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About
ABD PhD candidate in English, focused in critical theory and post-1960 American culture & literature.
I seek to recover a meaning structure, alternate to conventional ideations of 'identity,' amidst American late capitalism. I maintain that post-1960, conventionally 'othered' American identities found a new universal based in immanent difference. This formulation generates a rethinking of the foundations of identity politics in America today. My work aims to expose the grids of meaning which create the unconscious desire to define America, through its cultural productions, as 'diverse,' proffering a universal-exception for 'othered' American life that breaks with transcendent ideologies of tolerance and otherness.
A little more on some of my recent work; see right-hand column:
http://www.uri.edu/gsadmis/newsletter.html
Contact Information
| IM: | Skype: laurie_rodrigues |
