Dr. Andrew Rimby's Dissertation, "The Pool of Narcissus: Walt Whitman's Homoerotic Poetics"

Ivory Tower Boiler Room · Jul 17, 2023 · 1h 5m

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Thanks so much to an amazing dissertation committee! Drs. Susan Scheckel, Michael Tondre, Victoria Hesford, Karen Karbiener, and Nikos Panou! And yes, I officially became Dr. Andrew Rimby. Here's a description of my project: The deployment of the myth of Narcissus in mid- to late nineteenth century American literature allows for a homoerotic imaginary to be built around romantic and sexual relations between men at a time when homosexuality had not yet been medicalized or theorized…