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Fall 2016
Recent research by Neilsen reports that adult readers purchase 80% of all young adult novels sold, even though young adult literature is a category ostensibly targeted towards teenage readers (Gilmore). More than ever before, young adult (YA) literature is at the center of some of the most...
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Fall 2015
Three Black Crows is an original work of fiction exploring colonial violence and resistance through the archetypal narrative of the hunt and the relationship between big game hunter and native guide. The novel is based in a tradition of Canadian prairie fiction and conventions of the Western...
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Tick Tock: Insect Figuration, Temporal Estrangement and Historiographic Critique in Postmodern and Contemporary Literature, Art, and Film
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This dissertation engages with posthumanist and postmodern theory, critical animal studies, and critiques of modern temporality and historiography to examine how insect figures trouble dominant understandings of historical time in contemporary Western literature, film, and art. It argues that...
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Toxic White Masculinity: Literary and Cinematic Representations of Terrorism and Antagonistic Masculinities in Colonial Algeria and 9/11 United States
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My thesis explores the ways in which the re-enactment of an aggressive white masculinity that is heteronormative, militarist, and aggressive, one that is also race- and class-specific, is the cornerstone of the neo-liberal world order in Western Europe and in the U.S. My project turns to...
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Spring 2019
This project looks at how athletic movements borrowed from exercise translate into performance and social media settings mediated through trans bodies, affects, and politics. Trans artists turn to exercise for personal transformation of the body and bring those movements and their accompanying...
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Travel Compilations in Sixteenth-Century England: Eden and Ramusio as Hakluyt's Generic Precursors
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Scholarship on Richard Hakluyt’s compilations of travel writing regularly refers to his main literary predecessors: Richard Eden and Giovanni Battista Ramusio. However, such scholarship very rarely engages in a sustained comparison of Hakluyt’s, Eden’s, and Ramusio’s work. In George Bruner Parks’...
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Fall 2023
Treaty and the Poetics of Social Transformation contends that treaties are important sites of collective, imaginative, and material struggle for anti-colonial social change in Canada. The Numbered Treaties are both crucial legal relationships and political concepts in critiques of Canadian...
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Spring 2015
This thesis explores the post-environmentalist network of writers, artists, and thinkers known as The Dark Mountain Project. It does so by examining Dark Mountain as a literary and cultural phenomenon that has generated a burgeoning literary community and subculture of uncivilisation in response...
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Fall 2016
This dissertation studies the rise of undercover journalism in the Victorian period. Beginning in the 1860s, British journalists donned disguises to investigate the urban poor, and published their reports in a variety of newspapers. Scholars have traditionally studied incognito investigations...