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Spring 2022

Moghaddasi Sarabi, Shahin

This dissertation reports my rhetorical, multimodal genre analysis of research articles (RAs) in discrete mathematics and its pedagogical applications. The increasing demand on graduate students to publish their research in English and the need of these students to write in the key genres of...

Fall 2022

Antonova, Anna

This study focuses on the scope, limits, and implications of literary translators’ agency, exploring the gendered aspects of the translators’ creative projects and their impact on the cultural transfer outcomes in the context of Alice Munro’s writing translated into Russian, Ukrainian, and...

Fall 2023

Perram, Megan

Illness narratives, or autobiographical accounts of the lived experience of pathology or disability, have been established as an effective therapeutic intervention for responding to emotional well-being related to illness (Couser, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2009; Frank; Hartman; Hawkins; Irvine & Charon;...

Fall 2023

Parrila, Sofia A

Childhood forms the basis for a lifetime of ecological interaction. Due to many contemporary ecological challenges, including the threat of climate change, children today grow up with complex relationships to the environment. However, there remains relatively little scholarship on recent novels...

Fall 2023

Feddersen, Richard

This study examines how knowledge displays reflect the way students of German at a university in Jordan position themselves vis-à-vis German identity in the semester prior to studying abroad. It may be tempting to assume that language learners desire some degree of target culture membership, but...

Spring 2023

Quist, Jennifer Lynn

It is now acknowledged in Creative Writing research that the traditional writing workshop as developed in United States universities during the 20th century was initially propagated across the globe as part of a project to secure American soft power, and it remains ideologically slanted toward...

Fall 2023

Monzon Rodriguez, Sofia

During the Francoist regime in Spain, literary translations into Spanish and Catalan were, along with domestic literary works, subject to the publishing guidelines established to control the cultural production and circulation of literature. Archival investigations unearthed an overlooked...

Spring 2023

Sembaliuk Cheladyn, Larisa N

Written nearly a century ago, Вуйкова книга Uncle’s Book (1930) by Jacob Maydanyk embodied the collective memories of early Ukrainian settlers on the Canadian prairies. It was Maydanyk’s graphic memoir, and over the years, time was unkind - the book of comic strips became a collection of...

Spring 2024

Velázquez Velázquez, Laura L

We live in a historical period that has been named “the age of migration,” an epoch characterized by uncanny interconnectedness and an extended virtue of mobility, where everyone is or at least has the potential to become a migrant (Nail 14). We all move, but not all movements are the same. Some...

Fall 2024

Pitonak, Monika

Over the last several decades, Canada has seen a diversification as well as an overall increase in immigration which has introduced a variety of different translation and interpreting needs that play a vital role in facilitating immigrant integration. Given the fact that these translation and...