2024

Jenna Miller, MA
Completion Date: September 16, 2024
Supervisor: Ella Ophir
Thesis Title: Mapping the Unstable Self in Virginia Woolf’s Memoir ‘A Sketch of the Past’
  

Laurel Madumere, MA
Completion Date: September 12, 2024
Supervisor: Ella Ophir
Thesis Title: Autobiographical Mobility in Zora Neale Hurston’s Dust Tracks on a Road
  

Erin Petrow, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September 11, 2024
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: The Overhang Papers: A Novel
 

Owen Schalk, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September 6, 2024
Supervisor: Sheri Benning
Thesis Title: Under Salted Earth: A Novel
 

Sara Krahn, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September 5, 2024
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: Quiet in the Land: A Novel
 

Tim Patton, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September 5, 2024
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: The Endeavour: Short Stories
 

Hannah Ackerman, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: August 30, 2024
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: The Artist’s Daughter: A Novel
 

Eunice Domingo, MA
Completion Date: August 26, 2024
Supervisor: Lindsay Banco
Thesis Title: To the Stray Dogs: A Case Study on Multimedia Virtuosity and Japanese Literary Tribute in Kafka Asagiri and Sango Harukawa’s Bungou Stray Dogs (2013-2024)
 

Heather Torvi, MA
Completion Date: August 7, 2024
Supervisor: Allison Muri
Thesis Title: Analyzing Henry Fielding’s The Coffee-House Politician; or the Justice Caught in His Own Trap Using Close and Distant Reading
 

Daniel Bliss, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: June 24, 2024
Supervisor: Sheri Benning
Thesis Title: Don’t Steal My Days, I’ll Give Them to You

 

Ashley Lekach, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: April 23, 2024
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: Raven King: A Novel
 

Kai McKenzie, PhD
Completion Date: April 11, 2024
Supervisors: Marie Lovrod and Ann Martin
Thesis Title: “Like a Body without a Mouth”: Representations of Hunger and Fulfilment in Three Canadian Two-spirit and Transgender Coming-of-age Novels by Joshua Whitehead, Kai Cheng Thom, and Vivek Shraya
 

Olive Scott, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: March 28, 2024
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: To Sing of Mountains: Poetry

2023

Red Davis, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September 11, 2023
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: Salvaging Hope: A Novel

Dawn Maria Muenchrath, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September 8, 2023
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: People You Grew Up With: A Novel

Josiah Nelson, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September 7, 2023
Supervisor: Sheri Benning
Thesis Title: The Holy Ones: Stories 

Walker Pityn, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September 6, 2023
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: Curlicue: Stories

Jade McDougall, PhD
Completion Date: August 30, 2023
Supervisor: Dr. Nancy Van Styvendale
Thesis Title: “I Can Tell You Now”: Métis Kinship Narratives in Community History Volumes

Megan Gorsalitz, MA-P
Completion Date: July 31, 2023
Supervisor: Dr. Yin Liu
Thesis Title: Whales, Birds, Reeds, and Book-worms: What Old English Riddles Say about Anglo-saxon Attitudes Towards Writing and Readin

Sheheryar Sheikh, PhD
Completion Date: July 5, 2023
Supervisor: Dr. Lindsey Banco
Thesis Title: Reverting to Greatness: White-American Trauma and the Occlusion of Muslims in the Post-9/11 ‘Great American Novel’

Miguel Dela Pena, MA-P
Completion Date: April 1, 2023
Supervisor: Dr. Peter Robinson
Thesis Title: “Avengers Assemble!”: The Implications of Assembling an Edition of the Marvel Cinematic Universe on Textual Scholarship

Tara Chambers, PhD
Completion Date: January 24, 2023
Supervisor: Dr. Ron Cooley
Thesis Title: John Milton’s Republican Poetics and the Politics of Paradise Lost

Tristan Taylor, PhD
Completion Date: January 16, 2023
Supervisor: Dr. Yin Liu
Thesis Title: Thomas Becket in the South English Legendaries: Genre, Materiality, and Why the Reader Matters

2022

Aliza Jane Sunflower Prodaniuk, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September 19, 2022
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: Freshwater Fury: A Novel

Gunnar Franklin Ohberg, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September 16, 2022
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes  
Thesis Title: Belly, Doc, Kudzu: A Novel

Megan Fairbairn, MA-P
Completion Date: September 15, 2022
Supervisor: Dr. Ella Ophir
Thesis Title: “I make it real by putting it into words”: Negotiating the Subjective, Mutable, and Interpersonal in Virginia Woolf’s “A Sketch of the Past”

Ian Joseph Cooney, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September 15, 2022
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes 
Thesis Title: The Door to Truth Might Be Strangeness: A Short Story Collection

Ozten Paul, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September 8, 2022
Supervisor: Sheri Benning
Thesis Title: Mashkode - A Verse Novel

Brandon Davis Fick, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September 7, 2022
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes 
Thesis Title: Only An Only Child: Stories

Delane Marie Just, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September 2, 2022
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes 
Thesis Title: Cryptids Anonymous: Short Stories

Callum Alexander Ross Wilson, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: August 26, 2022
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: Drizzleville: A Novella

Kyle Dase, PhD
Completion Date: August 26, 2022
Supervisor: Dr. Brent Nelson
Thesis Title: Friendship and Sociability in the Verse Letters of John Donne

Marie Chatlain, MA-P
Completion Date: August 26, 2022
Supervisor: Dr. Kylee-Anne Hingston
Thesis Title: In the Country of the Blind, the Two-Eyed Man Must Have His Eyes Removed: Disabling Utopia in H.G. Wells’s “The Country of the Blind”

Cara Schwartz, MA-P
Completion Date: August 17, 2022
Supervisor: Dr. Kristina Bidwell
Thesis Title: Transforming Identity and Space Through Relational Lines in Louise Erdrich’s Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country and Lisa Bird-Wilson’s Probably Ruby

Sarah Regier, MA-T
Completion Date: August 9, 2022
Supervisor: Dr. Jenna Hunnef
Thesis Title: “That's All We Are”: Storytelling as Postcolonial Praxis in Five North American Urban Fantasy Novels

Emily Pickett, MA-P
Completion Date: August 2, 2022
Supervisor: Dr. Brent Nelson
Thesis Title: “I Dare Do All That May Become a Man”: Establishing a Textual Case for an All-female Macbeth

Karen Elizabeth Wood, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: July 28, 2022
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: Inheritance: A Linked Short Story Collection

Kristine Susan Ann Scarrow, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: July 6, 2022
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: Only Human: Stories

Gwen Rose, MA-P
Completion Date: July 28, 2022
Supervisor: Dr. Ann Martin
Thesis Title: Material Mediation: Women, Connection, and Vital Materialism in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, To The Lighthouse, and Between The Acts

Caragana Ennis, MA-P
Completion Date: June 21, 2022
Supervisors: Dr. Ann Martin and Dr. Jenna Hunnef
Thesis Title: “A Great Telling:” Audience as Co-Creator of Story

Drumlin Crape, MA-P
Completion Date: May 12, 2022
Supervisor: Dr. Lindsey Banco
Thesis Title: The Horror of Our Love: Hannibal Lecter and the Reclaiming of Queer Villains

Federica Giannelli, PhD
Completion Date: March 7, 2022
Thesis Title: “A (S)hero’s Journey:” Paths to Re-writing Myths in the Star Wars Franchise
Supervisor: Dr. Lindsey Banco

2021

Matteo Sestito, MA-P
Completion Date: December 13, 2021
Supervisor: Dr. Bill Bartley
Thesis Title: "'We're Still Standing': Bakhtin's Bildungsroman, Communal Growth, and Mookie's Transformative Evolution in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing."

Jonathan Aylward, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September, 2021
Supervisor:  Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: The Custodian 

Amanda Kathleen Dawson, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September, 2021
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: Aldur's Way

Tea Gerbeza, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September, 2021
Supervisor: Sheri Benning
Thesis Title: How I Bend Into More: A Long Poem

Cook, Alyson, MA-P
Completion Date: August 11, 2021
Supervisor: Dr. Ann Martin
Thesis Title:"'nothing is known': The Labelling of Things and Misfits as a Critique of the Great War in Virginia Woolf’s “The Mark on the Wall” and Mrs. Dalloway."

Epp, Adam, PhD
Completion Date: July 12, 2021
Supervisor: Dr. Doug Thorpe
Thesis Title: Dickens' Self-Created Literary Brand in Novels and Adaptations.

Adair, Robin, PhD
Completion Date: May 26, 2021
Supervisor: Dr. Ann Martin
Thesis Title: Panoramic Still-Lifes: Art, Perception, and Being in the Works of Virginia Woolf.

Hobsbawn-Smith, dee, MA-P
Completion Date: May 5, 2021
Supervisor: Dr. Lindsey Banco
Thesis Title: The Terroir of Food Writing: Gender and Genre in M.F.K. Fisher's Translation of Brillat-Savarin's The Physiology of Taste.

Zachary Christopher Keesey, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: December 2020
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: Watchers of the Veil

2020

Kathryn Renee Shalley, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: October, 2020
Thesis Title: Like Velvet From Antlers: A Novel
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes

Doreen Ford Stumborg, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: October, 2020
Thesis Title: Crumagrackle: A Novel
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes

Jameson David Kelly Lawson, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September, 2020
Thesis Title: all the little shards
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes; Kevin Flynn; Frank Klaasen; Sheri Benning

Susan Irene Hammond, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September 2020
Thesis Title: Contours: Poems
Supervisor: Sheri Benning

Cameron Gerald Muir, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September, 2020
Thesis Title: Broken Windows: Stories
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes

Katherine Ann O’Gorman, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September, 2020
Thesis Title: The World Would Not Give: Stories
Supervisor: Douglas Thorpe; Kathleen James-Cavan; Angie, Abdou

Church, Lindsay MA-P
Completion Date: September 16, 2020
Supervisor: Dr. David Parkinson
Thesis Title: A Place for Women: Negotiating Anna Hume’s Triumphs and Women’s Experiences in Reformed Scotland". 

Rezazadeh, Sam, MA-P
Completion Date: September 14, 2020
Supervisor: Dr. Allison Muri
Thesis Title: The Role of Social Media Platforms in Political Protests in Iran During 2009 and 2017-9 Events. 

Gayowski, Ryan, MA-P
Completion Date: August 25, 2020
Supervisor: Dr. Brent Nelson
Thesis Title: “She erected schools, and founded several societies”: Reimagining Margaret Cavendish’s Visit to the Royal Society. 

Imes, Robert, PhD
Defence Date: August 14, 2020
Supervisor: Dr. Brent Nelson
Thesis Title: Writing Geography: Traversing Early Modern English Chorographies. 

Winquist, Martin, PhD
Defence Date: August 11, 2020
Supervisor: Dr. Ann Martin
Thesis Title: "How Should One Be an Outsider?: Virginia Woolf's Common Reader as a Theory of Subjectivity in Interwar England."

Sarah Annette Loewen Ens, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: August, 2020
Thesis Title: Flyway: A Long Poem
Supervisor: Sheri Benning

Tonia Olena Laird, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: August, 2020
Thesis Title: Lament: A Novel
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes

Redford, Jasmine, MA-T
Defence Date: July 28, 2020
Supervisor: Dr. Wendy Roy
Thesis Title: Chasing Captain Canada: National Identity Challenged Through Superheroes in Canadian Comic Books 

Penteliuk, Kayla, MA-T
Defence Date: July 8, 2020
Supervisor: Dr. Ella Ophir
Thesis Title: “The Brilliant, The Doomed, The Adored Elizabeth Barrett”: Virginia Woolf and the Modernist Revision of Victorian Lives in “Aurora Leigh” and Flush.

 Hope Diane Houston, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: July 2020
Thesis Title: Demetrius Johnson and the Weep of the World: A Novel 
Supervisor: Beverly Brenna

Jennifer Elizabeth Wymore, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: October 2019
Thesis Title: Chaser of Ghosts: A Novel
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes

2019

McDonald, Jessica, PhD
Defence Date: December 16, 2019
Supervisor: Dr. Lindsey Banco
Thesis Title: Complicated Geographies: Douglas Coupland’s North America 

Harrison, Austin, MA-P
Completion Date: September 18, 2019
Supervisor: Dr. Wendy Roy
Thesis Title: Munere Mortis: The Agon between Elegiac Duty and Postmodern Technique in Anne Carson's Nox

West, Rhonda, MA-T
Defence Date: September 6, 2019
Supervisor: Dr. Wendy Roy
Thesis Title: Unsettled Narratives: Ghostly Indigenous Presence and Vengeful Land in Martha Ostenso’s Wild Geese, Sinclair Ross’s As for Me and My House, and Sheila Watson’s The Double Hook

Monsour, Tricia, MA-P
Completion Date: September 3, 2019
Supervisor: Dr. Lisa Vargo
Thesis Title: Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights: The Unreliable Male Narrator and Anonymous Female Authorship in the Gothic Novel. 

Carolyn M Gray, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September, 2019
Supervisor: Sheri Benning
Thesis Title: I Love You Like Hell: A Play

Jaclyn Lyla Morken, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September, 2019
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: On the Verge: A Novel

Bracewell, Corianne, MA-P
Completion Date: August 27, 2019
Supervisor: Dr. Wendy Roy
Thesis Title: “Like Calling God a Studmuffin”: Women’s Relationships with Self and Others Within the Commodifying Patriarchy of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy. 

Braaten, Reid, MA-P
Completion Date: August 12, 2019
Supervisor: Dr. Bill Bartley
Thesis Title: “The soul on strike that strikes through affect”: Alternative Lifestyles, Old Anxieties, and New Beginnings in Welcome to the N.H.K. 

Monk-McKenzie, Kai, MA-P
Completion Date: July 29, 2019
Supervisor: Dr. Peter Robinson
Thesis Title: The Alchemy of Transformation: Turning the Violence of Transphobia into Voice with Geoffrey Chaucer and Kai Cheng Thom. 

Gerber, Lizette, MA-P
Completion Date: July 15, 2019
Supervisor: Dr. Joanne Leow
Thesis Title: Sensory Materialism and N.K. Jemisin's, The Fifth Season

Barbara Bordalejo, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: July, 2019
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: The University of Shadows: A Novel

Taidgh Daniel Lynch, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: July, 2019
Supervisor: Sheri Benning
Thesis Title: Home and Abroad: Poems

Allison McFarland, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: July, 2019
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title:  Pretty Delicate: A Novel(la) 

Read, MacKenzie, MA-P
Completion Date: April 23, 2019
Supervisor: Dr. Bill Bartley
Thesis Title: “The World, It's Changing, and Most People Don't Fuck with You--Not Like They Used To”: Nostalgia, Porn, and the Myth of New York in HBO's The Deuce

Dorward, Sarah, MA-P
Completion Date: April 9, 2019
Supervisor: Dr. David Parkinson
Thesis Title: Cultural Taste, Literary-Scholarly Publishing, and James De Mille's Strange Manuscript. 

Rasmussen, Douglas, MA-T
Defence Date: February 14, 2019
Supervisor: Dr. Lindsey Banco
Thesis Title: Intertextual Representations of Drugs, Violence, and Greed in Breaking Bad.

Daniel Yetman Dartmouth, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: February, 2019
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: Musclebound: A Novel

2018

Charlton, Adar, PhD
Defence Date: December 18, 2018
Supervisor: Dr. Kristina Bidwell
Thesis Title: Place-Based Identity in Northwestern Ontario Anishinaabe Literature. 

Kiedrowski, Jonas, MA-T
Defence Date: December 7, 2018
Supervisor: Dr. Wendy Roy
Thesis Title: The Revolution Will Not be Satirised: The Revolutionary Potential of Stephen Leacock's Satire. 

Horacki, Michael, PhD
Defence Date: October 16, 2018
Supervisor: Dr. Ann Martin
Thesis Title: Memory, Interpellation, and Assemblage: Multivalent Subjectivity In The Novels Of Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, And Evelyn Waugh. 

Pence, Taylor, MA-P
Completion Date: October 11, 2018
Supervisor: Dr. Peter Hynes
Thesis Title: The Unraveling of a World: Degeneration in Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle

Dobson, Glynndon, MA-P
Completion Date: September 14, 2018
Supervisor: Dr. Peter Hynes
Thesis Title: Art as Anarchism:  Political Dissent and Artistic Expression in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed. 

Miller, Elizabeth, MA-P
Completion Date: September 14, 2018
Supervisor: Dr. Lindsey Banco
Thesis Title: Calling the President a Liar: Women, Reagan, and the Bomb in The Day After. 

Stadynk, Tara, MA-P
Completion Date: September 14, 2018
Supervisor: Dr. Peter Hynes
Thesis Title: The Silver Seer: Gender, Sex, and the Divine Feminine in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness

Julianna Teresa Dunn, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September, 2018
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: Otênawi-Têwêhikan (Urban Drum)

Vijay Lakshmi Kachru, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September, 2018
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: Red Glass Bangles: A Novella

Daniel Eugene Kim, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September, 2018
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title:  Burn, Only Ash

Yeku, James, PhD
Defence Date: August 27, 2018
Supervisor: Dr. Allison Muri
Thesis Title: Politics and Performative Agency in Nigerian Social Media. 

Simon Rudolf Bohm, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: August, 2018
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: Merry: A Horror Novel

Dylan Sebastian Rea, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: July, 2018
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: Chasing Lakes: A Novel

Geoffrey Forbes Pevlin, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: June, 2018
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: Cramp-Hand Cuffers: The Robert Bartlett Explorations

Adedipe, Michael, MA-P
Completion Date: May 30, 2018
Supervisor: Dr. Cynthia Wallace
Thesis Title: Creating as New Multicultural Frame: The Cinematographic Suppression of Half of a Yellow. 

Schramm, Victoria, MA-P
Completion Date: April 17, 2018
Supervisor: Dr. Francis Zichy
Thesis Title: The Development of Ethel Wilson's Swamp Angel: An Assessment of the Current State of Knowledge and Areas for Future Research.

2017

Brazier-Tompkins, Shakti, PhD
Defence Date: December 22, 2017
Co-Supervisors: Dr. Lindsey Banco and Dr. Kevin Flynn
Thesis Title: Tracking the Real Thing: Representation, Relationship, and Masculinity In the Animal Stories Of Euro-Canadian Men. 

Puls, Carina, MA-T
Defence Date: December 20, 2017
Supervisor: Dr. Doug Thorpe
Thesis Title: “The Antithesis of the Traditional Elf:” Deconstructing Racial Representations in Dungeons and Dragons and R. A. Salvatore's The Legend of Drizzt. 

McCutcheon, Kayla, MA-P
Completion Date: September 20, 2017
Supervisor: Dr. Ludmilla Voitkovska
Thesis Title: The Politics of Russian Stereotypes in Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes.

Danielle Marie Altrogge, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September, 2017
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: On The Rocks

Lindsay Kristjana Kiesman, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September, 2017
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title:  Reclaimed

Katherine Ann Lawrence, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September, 2017
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: Burned Heart: A Performance Memoir

Shannon Kelly McConnell, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September, 2017
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: The Burden of Gravity 

Cassi Wynne Smith, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September, 2017
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: Kasayak: The Wise Ones

2016

Grant, Danielle, MA-T
Defence Date: December 22, 2016
Supervisor: Dr. Yin Liu
Thesis Title: Conversations Between Medieval Texts and Digital Editions: The Dynamic Remediation of Harley 4205       

Meaghan M Hackinen, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: October, 2016
Thesis Title: South Away: The Pacific Coast on Two Wheels
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes

Olaleye, Banjo, MA-P
Completion Date: October 12, 2016
Supervisor: Dr. Allison Muri
Thesis Title: Recasting Africanness: Ignatius Sancho and the Question of Identity. 

Baker, Jillian, MA-P
Completion Date: September 19, 2016
Supervisor: Dr. Nancy Van Styvendale
Thesis Title: Editorial Self-Determination in the Transmission of Autobiographical Writing: A Justification for the Expansion of Str8UP’s Current Publication Platform. 

Bilmer, Blake, MA-P
Completion Date: September 14, 2016
Supervisor: Dr. Nancy Van Styvendale
Thesis Title: Resisting Consumption: Exploring Pathways of Resistance to the Assimilative Nature of the Canadian Education System through Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen

Waite-Newhouse, Keifer, MA-P
Completion Date: September 7, 2016
Supervisor: Dr. Len Findlay
Thesis Title: One Man’s Garbage is Another Man Person’s Good Ungarbage”: Trailer Park Boys, Adorno, and Trash Aesthetics 

Courtney Leigh Loberg, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September, 2016
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: The Rangeroads: A Graphic Novel

Leah Bryn MacLean-Evans, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September, 2016
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: Steepmilk Deerdog: A Novel

Brent Roy McFarlane, MFA in Writing 
Completion Date: September, 2016
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title:  Joke Book

Texis Francis Walkem, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September, 2016
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: The Caveless Mountains: A Recovery Narrative

Horsburgh, Amelia, PhD
Defence Date: July 15, 2016
Supervisor: Dr. Wendy Roy
Thesis Title: Sexualized Bodies in Canadian Women’s Short Fiction. 

Patrick Edward O’Reilly, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: July, 2016
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: Candle Bearers: Poems

Nicole Marissa Haldoupis, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: July, 2016
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: Tiny Ruins: Short Prose Works

Pottle, Adam, PhD
Defence Date: February 26, 2016
Co-Supervisors: Dr. Kevin Flynn and Dr. Kathleen James-Cavan
Thesis Title: The Fluidity of Normalcy: Disability in English-Canadian Novels, 1984-2007.

2015

Liska, Jasmine, MA-T
Defence Date: December 1, 2015
Supervisor: Dr. Ella Ophir
Thesis Title: Outside the Ivory Tower: The Role of Academic Wives in  
C.P. Snow’s The Masters, Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim, and Malcolm Bradbury’s The History Man. 

Baumgardner, Cory, MA-P
Completion Date: September 18, 2015
Supervisor: Dr. Nancy Van Styvendale
Thesis Title: Str8 Up and Gangs: The Untold Stories: Narratives of Health and Sickness, Crime and Punishment, and Canada’s Colonial Legacy. 

Dase, Kyle, MA-P
Completion Date: September 15, 2015
Supervisor: Dr. Peter Robinson
Thesis Title: The Wanderer: A Hypertext Edition. 

Yanez, Rodrigo, MA-P
Completion Date: September 15, 2015
Supervisor: Dr. Allison Muri
Thesis Title: ‘Getting to be a Habit with Me’: Diegetic Music, Narrative, and Discourse in Bioshock

Gibbings, Colin, MA-P
Completion Date: September 8, 2015
Supervisor: Dr. Peter Robinson
Thesis Title: Chaucer Live! How Performance Helps Realize the Many Chaucerian Voices in the Prologue of The Centerbury Tales. 

Thacker, Aaron, MA-P
Completion Date: September 8, 2015
Supervisor: Dr. Wendy Roy
Thesis Title: ‘Such a sort of pariah’: Psychosocial Marginality and Bildungsroman in Mazo de la Roche’s Whiteoaks

Swalm, Brendan, MA-P
Completion Date: September 2, 2015
Supervisor: Dr. Richard Harris
Thesis Title: Sowing Strokes and Reaping Blows: Scenic Proverbialization. 

David Houston Chambers, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September 2015
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: Until The Pale Daybreak: Essays From The Periphery: A Non-Fiction Essay Collection

Chelsea Skye Forbes, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September 2015
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: Salve Creek: A Novel

Aaron Ivan Garrad, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September 2015
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: Vanishing: A Novel

Sara-Jane Gloutnez, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September 2015
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: Son Bird Saint

Camilla Isa Maria Lausas, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September 2015
Supervisor: Hilary Clark
Thesis Title: Birth Cage: Poems

Danielle Brett Potter, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September 2015
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: Footwork: A Novel

Gayle Marie Smith, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September 2015
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title:  Thickwood: A Novel

Barrieses, Azalea, PhD
Defence Date: August 25, 2015
Supervisor: Dr. Wendy Roy
Thesis Title: ‘Not the Story I Learned, But… The Story I Tell’: (Re)Presentation, Repair, and Asian Canadian Women’s Writing of the Mid-1990s. 

Skipsey, Kate, PhD
Defence Date: March 2, 2015
Supervisor: Dr. Kathleen James-Cavan
Thesis Title: Eloquent Bodies: Disability and Sensibility in the Novels of Frances Burney and Jane Austen. 

Giannelli, Federica, MA-T
Defence Date: January 13, 2015
Supervisor: Dr. Lindsey Banco
Thesis Title: Blood Ties: Northern and Southern Vampires in Twilight and True Blood.

2014

Brady, Carleigh, PhD
Defence Date: October 24, 2014
Supervisor: Dr. Peter Hynes
Thesis Title: Fractional Prefigurations: Science Fiction, Utopia, and Narrative Form. 

Ens, Devin, MA-T
Defence Date: October 14, 2014
Supervisor: Dr. Lisa Vargo
Thesis Title: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as a Defense of the Ethics of Care. 

Ledding, Andrea, MA-P
Completion Date: September 18, 2014
Supervisor: Dr. Nancy Van Styvendale
Thesis Title: The Brotherhood of Man: STR8UP, Literature, and Identity in the Wake of the Residential Schools 

Pickering, Brittany, MA-P
Completion Date: September 17, 2014
Supervisor: Dr. Peter Hynes
Thesis Title: Dreams, Power, and Community: An Analysis of Balance in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Word for World is Forest and The Lathe of Heaven

Neudorf, Benjamin, MA-P
Completion Date: September 17, 2014
Co-Supervisors: Dr. Allison Muri and Dr. Ray Stephanson
Thesis Title: Two Spectators: The Double Vision of Ned Ward’s The London Sky. 

Elise Marcella Bradshaw Godfrey, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September, 2014
Supervisor: Hilary Clark
Thesis Title: Rabbit Lake

Denise Frances Hobsbawn-Smith, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September, 2014
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: The Dryland Diaries

Sheila Dawn Janzen, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September, 2014
Supervisor: Beverly Brenna
Thesis Title: YXE: Beyond Boundaries

Mika Nicole Lafond, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September, 2014
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: nipê wânîn: askîy-iyinîsiwin acâhkowin

Jamie R Pepler, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September, 2014
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: From the Basement: Stories about Geeks, Gamers, and Freaks

Sarah Leeana Taggart, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September, 2014
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: Pacifique

Epp, Adam, MA-P
Completion Date: April 14, 2014
Supervisor: Dr. Bill Bartley
Thesis Title: Shame Culture, Representation, and Public Identifies in The Wire

Peacock, Claire, MA-P
Completion Date: January 15, 2014
Supervisor: Dr. Peter Hynes
Thesis Title: An Experiment in the Superorganic: Empire and Political Evolution in Ursula’s K. Le Guin’s Hainish Universe.

2013

Topola, Kelsey MA-P
Completion Date: December 6, 2013
Supervisor: Dr. Bill Bartley
Thesis Title: The Wire and American Mythology: Omar Little as a Cowboy Hero. 

Onion, Thomas, MA-P
Completion Date: September 16, 2013
Supervisor: Dr. Ludmilla Voitkovska
Thesis Title: Indos, Abjects, Exiles: Joseph Conrad’s Culturally Liminal Characters in the Age of Nationalism. 

Bolay, Jordan, MA-P
Completion Date: September 16, 2013
Supervisor: Dr. Jon Bath
Thesis Title: Videogames, their Textual Objects, and the Importance of Multi-Modal Narrative. 

Nygren, Catherine, MA-P
Completion Date: September 11, 2013
Supervisor: Dr. Ray Stephanson
Thesis Title: The Head of the Dunce in Pope’s Dunciad in Four Books

Smith, Karen MA-T
Defence Date: September 10, 2013
Supervisor: Dr. Yin Liu
Thesis Title: Hot and Cold, Wet and Dry: The Knowing of Woman’s Kind in Childing, a Fourteenth-Century Vernacular Obstetrical Treatise 

Leanne Danielle Bellamy, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September, 2013
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: Everything is an Argument: A Poetry Collection

Adam Charles Hawboldt, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September, 2013
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Project Title: Soju: A novel

Andréa Eileen Ledding, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September, 2013
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: Flett

Lorelie Ann Sarauer, MFA in Writing
Completion Date: September, 2013
Supervisor: Jeanette Lynes
Thesis Title: The Van Der Weerds

Toucet, Heather, MA-T
Defence Date: January 8, 2013
Supervisor: Dr. Kathleen James-Cavan
Thesis Title: The Displacement of Parody in Six Adaptations of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.