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.