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Fall 2023

Leeper, Jessica R.

W.B. Yeats saw himself as Ireland’s poet of historical record, even titling key poems to convey the centrality of Irish history to those poems and, eventually, to Irish historical self-understanding. Several of Yeats’s polemical, socially oriented poems have an internal logic that derives from,...

Fall 2021

Flores Oviedo, Ximena

In this thesis, I explore how constructed spaces become bound and localized places and how, within the context of Edmonton, Canada, places naturalize the presence of white settler bodies on Indigenous lands, extending the colonial project. I consider the colonial history of my hometown, Mexico...

Fall 2021

Tootonsab, Zahra

This research-creation questions and resists colonial technologies such as industrialization and urbanization that exploit environments and IBPOC peoples–Indigenous, Black, and People of Colour–as resources for colonial "progress." The research examines how nature and human relations intersect...

Fall 2009

Stafford, Amy

This thesis examines the intersections between biography and fiction in three novels and one biography by Carol Shields: Small Ceremonies, Swann, The Stone Diaries, and Jane Austen. By writing about biography and biographers in each novel, Carol Shields foregrounds the subject of biography and...

2006

Davis, Laura Katherine Strong

Fall 2009

Ugor, Paul

Abstract This dissertation reflects on how young people in Nigeria have appropriated global media technology in forging a local cinema industry, popularly known as Nollywood. First begun as a renegade cinematic art by jobless youth in the late 1980s, Nollywood has become the third biggest film...

2005

Smith-Hayward, Margaret Jay

Spring 2019

Purcell, Kaitlyn

In the introduction to my thesis, I discuss how I use a writing technique in my creative work in order to cope with the process of writing autobiography. As an Indigenous scholar and creative writer, I have been influenced by Indigenous research methodologies that support the practice of...