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Spring 2023
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...
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The Challenge of Translating Classic English-Language Children’s Literature into French and Spanish: The case of Dr. Seuss’s One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh
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The translation of literature for children is a historically understudied field that has only recently begun to be recognized. However, the translation of literature for children, especially classic works, poses a range of unique challenges that translators need to be aware of. This paper...
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The World in an Object Lesson: Visual Pedagogies in Children's Literature Produced for the 1893 Columbian Exposition
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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...
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A Critical Bond: Cultural Transmission and Nation-Building in Métis and Chicana/o Picture Books
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It was not until the later part of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century that Métis and Chicana/o authors began to create picture books as a counter-literary response to the discrimination that they faced as mixed-race peoples. The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the...
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"Just Breathing Isn't Living": Disability and Constructions of Normalcy in Nineteenth-Century Children's Literature
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This study seeks to demonstrate the ways in which disability is negatively and stereotypically presented in classic children’s literature and how it is used to prescribe constructions of normalcy. Although disability studies have become an increasingly popular avenue for critical study, one...
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Investigating Citizenship, Sexuality and the Same-Sex Marriage fight in California’s Proposition 8
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My doctoral dissertation examines the discursive strategies of ten organizations engaged in the 2008-2013 same-sex marriage battle of Proposition 8 in California. In November 2008 Californians voted to ban same-sex marriage under the state constitution through Proposition 8. Based on a queer...
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Spring 2015
My dissertation brings theorists of queer childhood (Bruhm and Hurley 2004; Edelman 2004; Stockton 2009) into conversation with contemporary North American queer young adult fiction (queer YA), a genre that I suggest has come to bear a heavy pedagogical burden in the wake of recent intense media...
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Fall 2014
While studies in Renaissance childhoods, literary and historical, are becoming more prominent, this work has failed to distinguish between children and adolescents, leaving youth, as such, largely unexamined. My project attends not to the children of early modern drama, but to post-pubescent...
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Sex, sexual, and gender differences in Canadian K-12 schools: Theoretical and empirical perspectives on identity, policy, and practice
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The research in this dissertation develops a multiperspective theoretical framework, which I describe as queer criticality, to guide the examination of discursive practices, educational policies, and public discourses that undergird heteronormativity and disproportionately impact the personal...