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Recent theses published by our graduates

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PhD theses completed in the last five years

Medieval

Early Modern/Renaissance

• Receipt Books and the Politics of Food in Early Modern English Women's Writing. Madeline Bassnett. May, 2008.
• Shakespeare and the Drama of Politic Strategems. Jackie Cameron, 2012.

Eighteenth Century

• "Spleen Spreads his Dominion": Cultural, Literary, and Medical Representations of Hysteria in the Eighteenth Century.Ìý Heather Meek, 2007.

Nineteenth Century

Twentieth Century

• Interviews at Work: Reading the Paris Review Interviews, 1953-1978. Kelley Lewis. October, 2008.
• "We are Most Ourselves When we are Changing": Michael Winer, Lynn Coady, Lisa Moore, and the Literary Reconfiguration of Atlantic Canadian Regionalism.Ìý Susanne Marshall, 2009.
  
• "One Small Way:" Racism, Redress, and Reconciliation in Canadian Women's Fiction, 1980-2000. Rebecca Babcock, 2011.

MA theses completed in the last five years

Medieval

• "May Saracens be Saved":Ìý The Conversion of the Saracens in Chaucer and Langland.Ìý Christopher Bailey, 2007.

Early Modern/Renaissance

• Reading 'Circe's Court':Ìý Politics and the Bed-trick from Boccaccio to Shakespeare.Ìý Kirsten Inglis, 2007.
• "Come Son, Let's Away": The Dialogue of Mothers and Young Sons on the Early Modern Stage. Lynne Evans, 2008.
• Meter, Meaning, and Music in the Airs of Thomas Campion. Anna Lewton-Brain. October, 2009.

Seventeenth Century

Eighteenth Century

• Of Swift and Men:Ìý The Construction of Masculinity in Selected Works of Jonathan Swift.Ìý Heather Clem, 2007.

Nineteenth Century

• Drawing the Line: A Study of Aesthetics and Morality in Henry James's Literary Life Tales. Melissa Bachynski, 2008.
• "The Lurking Poison of Sensuality": French Novels and Sensation Fiction in Lady Audley's Secret and The Doctor's Wife. Kja Isaacson, 2008.
• Rudyard Kipling and the Poetics of Failure. Joshua Swidzinski, 2008.
• Fictional Characters and Factual Investigations: Entering the Working-Class World in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton and North and South. Sarah Russell, 2008.
• "Becky Sharp's Children": Criminal Heroines in Vanity Fair and the Sensation Novels of the 1860s. Alexandra Doeben, 2009.
• "The Music Vibrating in her Still": The Influence of Musical Agency on Individual and Social Identity in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss and Daniel Deronda. Natalie Crenna, 2010.
• Charlotte Brontë and the Politics of Beauty. James D. Ross, 2010.
• "The Music Vibrating in her Still": The Influence of Musical Agency on Individual and Social Identity in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss and Daniel Deronda. Natalie Crenna, 2010.

Twentieth Century

• Soft Modernism and Amateur Readers: Reading Pleasure, Virignia Woolf, Orlando and The Waves. Danielle Gridley, 2008.
• Trouble at Home: The Anxieties of Belonging and Selfhood in the Fiction of Lynn Coady and Christy Ann Conlin. Heather Levie, 2008.
• Urban Scrawl: The Intersection of Graffiti Writing and Identity Production in Performance Bond, What We All Long For, and A Complicated Kindness. Sarah Emery, 2008.
• Genre-Splicing: Epic and Novel Hybrids in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman and American Gods. Christine Yao, 2008.
• In Black and White: Subverting the Racial Stereotypes of Historical Mainstream News Media in Black Canadian Literature. Carmen Reems, 2008.
• ‘I am a Settler/I am Uneasy’: Rethinking Citizenship, The Nation, and The ‘Good’ of Contemporary Canadian Poetry. Janet McGill, 2009.
  
• Revisioning Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: Androgyny, Queerness, and Feminism in Samuel R. Delany’s Trouble on Triton and Yann Martel’s Self.Ìý Casey Stepaniuk, 2009.
• Anne Rice’s Use of Gothic Conventions in The Vampire Chronicles. Nicole Tanner, 2009.
• Media Images and the Subversion of Conclusive Historical Narratives in Historiographic Metafictional Depictions of the Rosenberg Executions and JFK Assassination.Ìý Christian Ledwell, 2009.
• Auto/Biography in the Work of Michael Ondaatje. Matthew Kennedy, 2009.
• Lilith's Brood:Ìý The Dissolution of the Human Subject and a Movement Towards Post Humanity. Johanne Jell, 2009.
• Imagining the Lives of Others: Revisioning Cosmopolitanism in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines, Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, and Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist.Ìý Shauna Hall-Coates. October 2009.
• Falsity, Fronting, Future: Race in Everett's Erasure, Brand's What We All Long For, and Obama's Dreams From My Father. Charlene Davis, 2009.
• The Spatial Imaginations Of Klein, Cohen, and Richler. Chelsea Seale, 2009.
  
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