Major Research Papers Completed

Allan, Jonathan A. 2007

A Theory of Influence and Phenomenology: Jorge Luis Borges Misreads Virginia Woolf

Supervisor: Dr. Cristina Santos

Second Reader: Dr. Corrado Federici

 

Baird, Miranda 2011

Unveiling the Mind, Body and Space: Exposing (In)Visible Borders Facing Maghrebian Women and Beurettes

Supervisor: Dr. Tamara El-Hoss

Second Reader: Dr. Cristina Santos

 

 

BANNISTER, KAREN 2012
"Toward Hyperpresence: Corporeality and an Aesthetics of Violence in Marina Abramović’s Rhythm 0 and Vanessa Place’s Statement of Facts"
Supervisor: Gregory Betts
Second Reader: Duncan MacDonald

 

 

Cherniak, Elizabeth 2010

Men with Disabilities: Occupying the Space of Other, Masculinities and Sexuality in Auto/biographical Novels and Films

Supervisor: Dr. Cristina Santos

Second Reader: Dr. Tamara El-Hoss

 

Chevalier, Laura 2010

Medusa Through the Eyes of Time

Supervisor: Dr. Cristina Santos

Second Reader: Dr. Michael Berman

 

 

CHAARANI, DANIA 2012

Reading Rape Allegories and Body Speech Acts, A Comparative Analysis: Women Without Men and Tshepang: The Third Testament. Subverting Master Narratives in Expressions of Female Subjectivity
Supervisor: Dr. Susan Speary
Second Reader: Dr. Corrado Federici

 

CORLIS, WAYNE 2012

A Comparative Study: The Sublime, Gerhard richter, and Deleuze and Guattari
Supervisor: Dr. Derek Knight
Second Reader: Dr. Corrado Federici

 

 

Dignam, Colin Michael Grant Russ 2008

Insecurity, Sacrifice and Tragedy

Supervisor: Dr. Mathew Martin

Second Reader: Dr. C. Federici

 

Dufault, Monica 2011

Investigations into a Performance of That Woman: A Sex Play?

Supervisor: Dr. Natalie Alvarez

Second Reader: Dr. Leah Bradshaw

 

Ellis, Cameron 2010

Thomson: Poet of the Scared (Or, The Inferno as a Guide to The City)

Supervisor: Dr. Corrado Federici

Supervisor: Dr. Leslie A. Boldt

 

Field, Andrea 2008

The Manufactured Body

Supervisor: Dr. Keri Cronin 

Second Reader:  Dr. Corrado Federici

 

Gnau, Brittany 2008

Binds of Inscription: A Meeting of Butler and Wilde, Benjamin and Baudelaire

Supervisor: Dr. Natalie Alvarez

Second Reader:  Dr. Athena Coleman

 

Huisman, Marlie Christine 2008

Re-envisioning Habitat: Paul Kantner-Jefferson Starship’s Blows Against the Empire and Haight Ashbury

Supervisor: Dr. Derek Knight

Second Reader: Dr. Catherine Parayre

 

Jankovic, Alex 2009

Beyond the Artist’s Vision: War, Disillusionment and the Urban Commune in the 20^th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Derek Knight

Second Reader:  Dr. Gregory Betts

 

Kanerva, Edward

Paralogical Prisms: The Postmodern, Pseudoscientific Crystalline Poetics of Robert Smithson and Christian Bok

Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Parayre

Supervisor: Dr. Gregory Betts

 

 

 

 

 

LaPorte, Melissa 2010

Pompeii’s Last Days: Briullov & Bulwer-Lytton

Supervised by: Dr. Barbara Burrell

Second Reader: Dr. Keri Cronin

 

 

MANCHEGO-BADIOLA, PIERO 2012

On Martyrs, Myths and Motorcycles: Che as Mythical Icon in Ernesto Che Guevara’s The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey and Walter Salles’ The Motorcycle Diaries
Supervisor: Dr. Cristina Santos
Second Reader: Dr. Michael Meneghetti

 

 

McGuiness, Kevin  2007

Sebastian Queer Saint

Supervised by: Dr. Cristina Santos

Second Reader: Dr. Derek Knight

 

Meldrum, Claire   2008

Anne of the Silver Screen: The Role of Filmed Adaptations in the Critical and Popular Understanding of L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables

Supervisor: Dr. Anne Howey

Second Reader: Dr. J. Leach

 

Purdy, Laura 2011

“Actualized Desires”: A Comparative Study of the ‘Self’ and the Unconscious in Pan’s Labyrinth and The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

Supervisor: Dr. David Fancy

Second Reader: Dr. Cristina Santos

 

Rangaratnam, Sarah 2010

Sexual Temptresses and Evil Queens: Fairy Tale Constructions of Widows in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century France

Supervisor: Dr. Cristina Santos

Supervisor: Dr. Renée-Claude Breitenstein

 

Richards, Adam 2010

Sappho and Decadence: The Lesbian Visions of Swinburne and Baudelaire

Supervisor: Dr. Alexandre Amprimoz

Supervisor: Dr. Corrado Federici

 

Rita-Procter, Steven 2011

The Autobiographical and Confessional Mode as Fiction, Non-Fiction and Metafiction: Narrativizing the Self in  Contemporary Literature and Visual Art

Supervisor: Dr. Leah Bradshaw

Second Reader: Dr. Derek Knight

 

Spencer, Jacqueline 2008

Beyond Words: Flashbacks to Lacan’s Mirror Stage in Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” and David Cronenberg’s “Spider”

Supervisor: Dr. Corrado  Federici

Supervisor: Dr. Leslie Boldt

 

Srndic, Maja 2010

Fairytale Histories of Be-longing: Restorative and Reflective Nostalgia in “Once Upon a Time there was a Country” (1998) and “Underground” (1995)

Supervisor: Dr. María del Carmen Suescun Pozas

Second Reader:  Dr. Bohdan Nebesio

 

Storie, Jane 2009

Validating Little Red Riding Hood

Supervisor: Dr. Sandra Beckett

Second Reader:  Dr. Lissa Paul

 

Tamlin, Trevor 2009

Burlesque - Then and Now

Supervisor: Dr. Natalie Alvarez

Supervisor: Dr. Corrado Federici

 

Tanaka, Alejandro

Japanese Horror Films and Their Relationships with Oral Tradition and Modernity
Supervisor: Dr. Corrado Federici
Second readers: Dr. Irene Blayer and Dr. Leslie Boldt

 

Zehentbauer, Janice 2007

Nothing Sacred: Women Writing Magic Realism

First Reader: Dr. Cristina Santos

Second Reader: Dr. Leslie Boldt