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Fall 2017

Sajecki, Anna K

“Open Border, Open Road: The Anglo-Canadian Road Narrative” tells a new story about the contemporary Anglo-Canadian road narrative, a genre that I argue came into fruition with the construction of the Trans-Canada Highway. The dissertation traces how the contemporary Anglo-Canadian road genre...

Fall 2009

McAllister, Cheryl

When European children’s literature is adapted to North American film, parts of the stories are removed and changed in the hopes of producing something that will be considered acceptable in the target culture. Much of what is educational and cultural in the stories to begin with is removed...

Fall 2012

Rockwell, Trevor S

This study examines narratives about space exploration officially produced by government agencies of the Soviet Union and the United States between 1957 and 1977. It compares how space activities from the first Soviet Sputnik on October 4, 1957, to the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) in July...

Spring 2010

Allen, Amanda

This dissertation uses a feminist cultural materialist approach that draws on the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Luce Irigaray to examine the neglected genre of postwar-Cold War American teen girl romance novels, which I call “female junior novels.” Written between 1942 and the late 1960s by authors...

Spring 2023

Jin, Jing

This study explored the use of children’s literature in English-Chinese bilingual education in the Canadian context. The purpose was to examine the types of children’s literature that are used in bilingual education, the roles that children’s literature plays in students’ bilingual and biliteracy...

Spring 2018

Whitford, Adam N

The World in an Object Lesson addresses the ways in which nineteenth-century reading audiences of the United States were taught to make sense of the visual stimulus of worlds fairs. The Object Lesson was one visual method which was both promoted and critiqued in the material culture of the...