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Fall 2014

Ferron, Andrée Mélissa

This thesis utilizes postmodern readings of spaces to demonstrate how 1) Acadian spaces in literature participate in a larger palimpsest narrative originating in the founding texts of French America – essentially those of Jacques Cartier, Marc Lescarbot – and mostly in Evangeline, the epic poem...

Spring 2014

Froese, Gina J

This thesis suggests a solution to the longstanding tension between feminist literary theory and medieval religious writing. I argue that by appropriately translating key concepts in feminist theory to account for the particularities of earlier periods of genre literature, we may reconsider...

Fall 2014

Hussein,Mai M.L.

At the crossroad of themes and cultures, Wajdi Mouawad's writing combines an array of ‎artistic genres ranging from the ancient myth to most contemporary techniques of performance. ‎Among the writing of this playwright, dramaturge, stage director and actor, we have chosen to ‎study four plays...

Fall 2014

Cook, Samantha J.

In this dissertation, I examine Claire Martin’s autobiography, Dans un gant de fer (1965-66), in the context of the literary trends and the socio-cultural reforms of 1960s Quebec. Martin situates her memories of a misogynistic and violent father, as well as of an insipid convent education, in the...

Fall 2014

Lynn,Susanna M

Ukrainian-Canadians are a relatively well-established group in this country. This thesis focuses on an as yet unstudied segment of this community, namely the new, post-Soviet Ukrainian immigrants. As an interdisciplinary project, the thesis researches the ethnic identity discourses of recent...

Spring 2014

Hilden, Barbara L.

This thesis is a linguistic examination of the construction of German-Canadian identity in two urban Canadian communities: Edmonton, Alberta and Waterloo, Ontario. Combining the complementary frameworks of van Dijk’s (1995) Discourse Analysis as Ideology Analysis and Carbaugh’s (2007) Cultural...

Spring 2014

Pankovskyi, Iaroslav

This dissertation is concerned with the communicative potential of websites. The World Wide Web is a relatively new locale for communication on which an increasing number of users rely daily in Canada and in Ukraine. However, up to the present time there has been no unified framework for the...

Fall 2014

Oylupinar, Huseyin

This dissertation was undertaken to test the premise whether the modern Kozak revival was or could be used as a platform by the Ukrainian national cultural establishment for renegotiation, reformation, and consolidation of national identity in post-Soviet Ukraine. Its primary aim was to observe...

Fall 2014

Dergacheva, Elena L

This thesis focuses on text analysis of Russian speaking blogs with the goal to examine critically discussions of femininity and masculinity in modern Russian society. The data corpora are comprised of blogs and comment entries from websites Maxpark.com and LiveJournal Russia. The central...

Spring 2013

Becker, Ava

Our current understanding of Spanish heritage language development (HLD) in the English-speaking world is largely restricted to non-refugee Hispanic groups in the United States (Potowski & Rothman, 2011). The present thesis addresses this gap by probing the relationship between the leftist...