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The Riot and the Didactic: Radical Instruction in British Romantic Poetry

This dissertation investigates the historical and present relationship of didactic poetry to the political thought of radical communities. Poetry from the Romantic period to the present is often seen as the valence of lyric and personal registers of thought, and its political utility is typically equated with the extent to which it resists concreti...

Urban humanities as a framework for the study of public space during the pandemic

The Los Angeles Street Vending Campaign: Visual Narratives of Contested Urban Terrains

Decades before street food became trendy, People of Color overcame economic exclusion by creating their own livelihoods through street vending that brought low-cost goods and services into distressed Los Angeles communities. From 1994 to 2018, however, street vending was classified as a misdemeanor and street vendors were regularly fined, jailed, a...