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2020-02-01

Van Deusen, Natalie M

SSHRC IDG awarded 2020: The proposed research project focuses on constructions of disability in the Old Norse­Icelandic Sagas of Bishops (byskupa sögur). Research for this project will take place over a two­year period. The first year(2020­21) will be dedicated to data collection, consultation,...

2016-02-01

Alakas, Brandon

SSHRC Awarded IDG 2016: The heart of this project is careful textual analysis of "The Directory of Conscience" and "The Pilgrimage of Perfection" written by William Bonde, who joined the Birgittine community of monks and nuns at Syon Abbey early in the sixteenth century. The Birgittines played a...

Spring 2015

Lalani, Tia I

This study seeks to demonstrate the ways in which disability is negatively and stereotypically presented in classic children’s literature and how it is used to prescribe constructions of normalcy. Although disability studies have become an increasingly popular avenue for critical study, one...

2017-10-13

McHugh, Tara-Leigh

SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: This Aboriginal and community-based, participatory research project aims to co-create knowledge about the holistic (emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual) benefits to Indigenous youth of participating in northern games, and to identify factors that might be modified to...

2012-10-13

Endicott, Marina

SSHRC Awarded IG 2013: Over the next three years, I will research and write the first draft of a new novel. The Difference will examine the actions of a Canadian woman in 1908, wife of a clipper ship captain, who buys a small Tongan boy for four pounds of tobacco. The research required for The...

2021-12-13

Phelan, S. K. & Reeves, P.

For the greater part of the twentieth century, thanks in part to disability rights movements around the world, disabled children and youth have increasingly been afforded access to community spaces, such as schools and classrooms; and activities, such as inclusive recreation programs, alongside...

Fall 2011

Melnyk, Catherine L

This study examines the disability-intertext in contemporary Canadian young adult fiction and seeks to analyze new patterns in the representation of disability. The disability-intertext is explored using Michel Foucault’s theory of the “background-body” and Ato Quayson’s theory of “aesthetic...

2012-10-12

Laidlaw, Linda

SSHRC Awarded Insight Grant 2013: The proposed research aims to investigate shifts in digital literacy practices in school and home in sites in Canada and Australia and to examine factors that might impede and/or facilitate digital literacy development.

2020-10-01

Binhammer, Katherine

SSHRC IG awarded 2021. This research project will provide "A Feminist Literary History of Women's Writing in the British Isles: The Beginnings to 1800", the first large-scale unabashedly feminist narrative history evaluating over 500 years of writing in English by women to 1800, and the first...

1998

Andres, Karen Maureen.