And I thought my dissertation's scope was ridiculously broad

From the preface to Marilyn Grace Miller's Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race:

"My dissertation, titled 'Miscegenation and the Narrative Voice,' explored the relationship between the notion of 'mixed race' and narrative production. [It addressed] textual representations of miscegenation in Latin America, the English Caribbean, the United States, and South Africa within a temporal frame that stretched from the colonial moment to the late twentieth century" (ix).

Holy Crap.