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Fall 2021

Schowalter, Glenna

Supernatural (SPN) is a long-running horror-fantasy television show that first aired in 2005 on the WB network, moved to the CW network in 2006 and recently released its final episode on November 19, 2020. With intertextual links to both horror cinema and the American Western, the show features...

Fall 2021

Peters, Amber E

In my thesis, I analyse two composite animal Buraq paintings from the Medieval Deccan. These two paintings, apparent copies of each other, are significantly different from other images of the Buraq in the Muslim world. Instead of placing the Buraq in a narrative scene, the Buraq takes up the...

Spring 2021

Soares dos Santos, Bruno

According to David Damrosch, world literature is a locus of negotiation between a source culture and a host culture, and a “space defined in many ways by the host culture’s national tradition and the present needs of its own writers” (What Is World Literature? 283). Damrosch also notes that “more...

Fall 2021

Benvenuti, Valentina

French feminist scholars, poets, and philosophers Hélène Cixous and Julia Kristeva proclaimed the absolute necessity of a revolution in poetic language, both in the realm of the signifier and the signified. Even though they used different terms, they both described a peculiarly feminine writing...

Fall 2021

Sluchinski, Kerry

By examining the language use of online Chinese “Anti” and “Pro” LGBTQ communities, this study primarily investigates the role that ‘ta’ plays in the construction of gender identities. Standard Chinese currently has three separate written forms for the third person: 他 (‘he’), 她 (‘she’), and 它...

Fall 2021

Sorell, Lindsay

Métis forms of beadwork and dress persisted in the Saskatchewan Valley between the years of 1862 and 1900, even in the midst of divisive and traumatic circumstances. Métis moved within their kinship networks to join the Isbister Settlement and other settlements along the North and South Branches...

Fall 2021

Hirschberg, Jasmin

The German language has had the reputation of being a notoriously difficult language to learn (Twain, 1880; Sick, 2016, 2004). In addition to popular belief and, partially, research, student voices in the classroom often revolve around how “hard” or “difficult” something is with regard to...

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 2022

Wang, Mingxing

This dissertation investigates the literary ascendancy in the West of China’s first Nobel laureate, Gao Xingjian, through translation. Although Gao’s master novel Lingshan was significant for his international reputation, the importance of its translations for his literary prestige in the West...