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Spring 2022

Kootnikoff, David J.

In this dissertation, I identify an aesthetic tradition in settler literary texts that parallels the settler state’s political response to such policies as multiculturalism and Reconciliation. I argue that modern Canadian fiction in English continues the tradition of romantic art in Hegel’s...

Spring 2016

Nath, Nisha K

Have Canadian citizenship discourses and practices fundamentally changed after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001? This is the question driving this study. While dominant accounts suggest that 9/11 was wholly transformative, there is no clear consensus both in and outside the academy...

Fall 2019

Friesen, Jay

This dissertation explores the relationship between comedy and multiculturalism by considering what many commentators have called the first Muslim sitcom, the Canadian series Little Mosque on the Prairie (Little Mosque). While past studies have examined various aspects of Little Mosque, this...

Spring 2020

Semaan, David

This thesis undertakes a parallel reading of the Bruce McArthur serial killings of predominantly racialized, queer men in the Toronto gay village and debates about police participation in Toronto Pride. This reading illuminates a homonationalist, state-making project that reasserts white...

Fall 2023

Vilchis Sanchez, Laura

Canada is a multicultural country, and different commissions, acts and policies have been created to protect its multiculturalism. Nevertheless, scholarship has demonstrated a disconnection between what is stated in the multicultural acts and policies and what is being reflected in the media,...

Fall 2019

Ng, Elim

The complexities and challenges of minority media production bring sharp focus to the sprawling and nebulous politics of transnational migration. By creating news programs meant to inform people with attachments in Canada, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China, Canadian, Chinese-language...