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2018-04-24

Carriere, Marie

SSHRC Awarded CG 2018: This interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and bilingual (English-French) conference sets out to compare Indigenous, Anglophone Canadian, and Québécois feminist production today-- including literature, theory, music, digital art, and film. The conference focuses on notions...

09/17/2021

Alakas, Brandon C

SSHRC IG awarded 2022: Richard Whitford was the most important English monastic author of the late Middle Ages as he distinguished himself by writing and translating a series of devotional texts aimed at both women religious and a lay public. The project will illustrate the importance of eight of...

Fall 2011

McCarroll, Cody

This dissertation examines the ideological force of the smallholder trope in various discourses, from classical political economy to early Canadian poetry and agribusiness advertising. The project investigates the increasing elision of smallholders from the socio-economic landscape in Canada by...

Fall 2020

Puddu, Cynthia

This dissertation used Institutional Ethnography (IE) to explore the experiences of street involved youth in Edmonton and to uncover how institutional, organizational, and social mechanisms shape their experiences. Drawing from Community-Based Participatory Research methods, I collaborated with...

Spring 2011

Das, Surma

In 1999, the World Bank launched the K4D initiative as part of its new development agenda. The Bank also established itself as the global development knowledge bank suggesting that these moves would yield more pro-poor development results. This thesis examines the Bank’s knowledge ventures and...

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...

2020-04-04

Reikie, Thomas W.

Twentieth century post-structuralists Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari provide a lens by which desire and its role in education can be analyzed. This analysis is done in the hope of understanding some of the ways by which our desires are manufactured, singularized, and then leveraged in the name...

Spring 2022

Howe, William R.

Abstract Literature has the power to change lives. Most English teachers trust this to be true. But while there are numerous arguments, of varying merit, that defend literature on cognitive grounds, few studies convincingly point to the underlying mechanisms of what makes it ‘work,’ or explain...

Spring 2019

Madueke, Ijeoma C.

This project focuses on the history and process of translating and publishing selected Anglophone Nigerian novels into French, with a special focus on elements of hybridity. The corpus consists of novels written by canonical and non-canonical, male and female Nigerian authors in the years after...

Spring 2011

Camargo Plazas, Maria del Pilar

Chronic disease is the largest cause of death in the world. Yet little is known about how globalization forces affect the body and the experience of someone who is chronically ill. The need for specialized knowledge of subjective data is significant as it will assist us to improve our...