PH.D. THESES COMPLETED OR UNDERWAY SINCE 1995 External Examiner (University)
Student Name
Title of Thesis
Supervisor
Moreland, Sean
"Cartographies of the Abyss: Tropics of Sublimity in the Fiction of Charles Brockden Brown and Edgar Allen Poe."
David Rampton
Webber, Reginal
“Late Medieval Benedictine Anxieties and the Politics of John Ludgate”
Andrew Taylor
Godin, Julie
‘Uptown, Downbeat: Mobility, Masculine Self-fashioning and Occupations of Space in African American Urban Narrative Discourse’
David Jarraway
Lewis, Anna
‘Discerning Devotional Readers: Readers, Writers, and the Pursuit of God in Some Late Medieval Texts’
Andrew Taylor
Pervez, Summer
“‘Postcolonizing’ Deleuze: Transnationalism and Horizontal Thought in the British South Asian Diaspora”
David Jarraway
“Occupants of memory - war in TwentiethCentury Canadian Fiction”
David Staines
Belyea, Andrew
“Honouring Mystery: The Evolutionary Fiction of Wayland Drew”
Cynthia Sugars
John Wadland (Trent U.)
2007
Lepine, Anna
“The Old Maid in the Garret: Representations of the Spinster in Victorian Culture”
Ina Ferris
Jill Matus (U. Of Toronto)
2006
Penny, Jonathon
“An Experiment in Critical Modernism: Eschatology, Prophecy, and revelation in Lewis, Huxley, and Golding”
Dominic Manganiello
Thomas Dilworth (U. of Windsor)
2006
Kozakewich, Tobi
“Compromising Positions: Representations of Adultery in TwentiethCentury English-Canadian Prose Fiction”
Gerald Lynch
Tracy Ware (Queen’s U.)
2006
Hodd, Thomas
“Unearthing the Enigma: Charles G.D. Roberts and the Supernatural”
David Staines
Gwendolyn Davies (U. Of New Brunswick)
Webb, Peter
Taylor, Natalie
“Mapping Mystic Spaces: Cognition, Communication and Communion in Contemporary Western Fiction”
Year 2008
Tracy Ware (Queen’s U.) Richard Firth Green (Ohio State U.)
2007
2007 Robert ReidPharr (U. of New York) Nicholas Watson (Harvard U.)
2007
2007 Diana Brydon U. of Manitoba 2007 Eva-Marie Kroller (UBC)
David Jarraway
Ronald Granofsky (McMaster U.)
2006
2006
Maydan, Ryan
“‘In Any Event’:Chance, Choice, and Change in the Postmodern Fictional Text”
David Jarraway
Barbara Godard (York U.)
2006
Ganz, Shoshannah
“Canadian Literary Pilgrimage: From Colony to Post-Nation”
Gerald Lynch
Marilyn Rose (Brock U.)
2006
Millar, Darren
“Fiction and Affect: Studies in the MidTwentieth Century American Novel and Its Utopian Contexts”
David Jarraway
Andrew Miller (U. Of Montreal)
2006
Prince, Kathryn
“Educating An Audience: Shakespeare In The Victorian Periodicals”
Irena Makaryk
Margaret Jane Kidnie (U. Of Western Ontario)
2005
Mullen, Amanda
“Mythic Migrations: Recreating Migrant Histories in Canadian Fiction”
Cynthia Sugars
Christl Verduyn (Wilfrid Laurier U.)
2005
Franklin, Colleen
“The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James: A New Edition and a Publication and Reception History”
Frans De Bruyn
Ian MacLaren (U. Of Alberta)
2003
PH.D. THESES COMPLETED OR UNDERWAY SINCE 1995 External Examiner (University)
Student Name
Title of Thesis
Supervisor
Daniels, Rosemary
“Women’s Place in Men’s Poetry; The Creation of a Beata Femina in Women’s Poetry of the Eighteenth Century “Casting Shadows: A Study of Madness in Margaret Atwood’s Novels”
Frans De Bruyn
John Baird (U. Of Toronto)
2004
Gerald Lynch
Magdalene Redkop (Victoria College)
2003
“Form, Gender, and Social Commentary in Renaissance Drama”
Nicholas von Maltzahn
-W-
2002
Trigg, Tina
Johnstone, Laura
Novak, Ken Leroux JeanFrançois
Morra, Linda
Perry, Martha
Petrova, Erma
“The Religious Significance of the Medieval Body and Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction” “The Renaissance of Impasse in American/ Quebec Literary Relations: Comparative Readings of Carlyle, Emerson, Melville, Aquin, Ducharme and Beaulieu” “Constructing Canada: Depictions of Landscape in Early 20th Century Canadian Novels and Painting” “T(r)opical Shakespeare: Shakespearean Productions and Reception in Jamaica, 1755-1829.” “Self-fulfilling Prophecy and the Problem of the Subject”
D. Manganiello
Thomas Werge (U. Notre-Dame)
Year
2002
C. La Bossière
Eva-Marie Kröller (UBC)
2002
David Staines
Eva-Marie Kröller (UBC)
2002
Irene Makaryk
2002 -W-
David Rampton
Mario Valdés (U. Of Toronto)
2002
Smurthwaite, Cynthia Morrissey, Lynda
Bailey, Elaine
Fowler, Adrian
Stoyan, Sydney
Totev (Kostova), Stela Hewson, Mark
Woollam, Angela
“Birthright and Belonging in Middle English Crucifixion Literature” “Portraits of Past Actuality: The Outcast in Historically-based Canadian Literature” “Matilda Betham: Romanticism and Women’s Biography”
“Distinct Society: The Dialectics of Cultural Identity in Contemporary Newfoundland Literature” “The Widow’s Might: Law and the Widow in British Fiction 1689-1791" “Variations on Motherhood in Woolf, Lawrence, and Joyce” “The Male Writer and Feminine ext: Hemingway’s Major Novels from a Cixousian Perspective” “The Rhetorical Art of Some Vernon Refrain Lyrics”
David Carlson
Gerald Lynch
April London
David Staines
April London Don Childs
J. TavernierCourbin David Jeffrey
George Clark (Queen’s U) Larry McDonald (Carleton U.) Anthony Harding (U. Of Saskatchewan) Zailing Pollock (Trent U.)
Isobel Grundy (U. of Alberta) Murray McArthur (U. of Waterloo) Nancy Comley (Queens College NYU) Richard Green (U. Western Ontario)
2002
2002
2002
2002
2002 2002
2001
2001
PH.D. THESES COMPLETED OR UNDERWAY SINCE 1995 Student Name Donnelly, Phillip
Title of Thesis
Supervisor
“Interpretation and Violence: Reason, Narrative and Religious Toleration in the Works of John Milton”
David Jeffrey/ N. von Maltzahn
External Examiner (University)
Year
John R. Knott (U. Michigan)
2001
Morin-Parsons, Kel
“Loose my speche”: Anne Locke’s Sonnets and the Matrilineal Protestant Poetic”
Irene Makaryk
Susanne Woods (Wheaton College and Brown Univ.)
2001
West, Alan
“The Natural History of the future: The Related Importance of History to the Work of Richard Jefferies, William Morris, H.G. Wells, and Aldous Huxley”
Keith Wilson
Kerry McSweeney (McGill Univ.)
2001
David Rampton
Tom Dilworth (Univ. Windsor)
2001
O. Oerlemans
Alan Bewell (Univ. Toronto)
2001
Richardson, Scott
Ready, Kate
Warnock, Jeanie
“Taking the Repeats: Modern American Poetry in Imitation of Eighteenth-Century Musical Forms” “A Matter of Consciousness: Personal Identity in the Writings of Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825)” “Kind Tyranny: Brother-Sister Relationships in Renaissance Drama”
Irene Makaryk
V. Comensoli (Wilfrid Laurier)
2000
MacGregor, Catherine Brett, Mary
Hallett, David
Mallory, Kevin
Briggs, Marlene
Wohlgemut, Esther
Whiting, Patricia
Guth, Gwendolyn
“Writing Lives of Addiction: A Context for Literary Biography and Criticism” “The Autonomous Narratives of Joyce Carol Oates: Dissociation and the Mapping of the Mind” “Cautious Rebellion: A Critical Study of the Canadian Historical Play in English” “Attitudes of Regard: Dignity, Mystery, and Desire in Barry Lopez, Edward Abbey, and Annie Dillard” “Haunted Armistice: The Great War, Modern British Literature, and the Mourning of Historical Trauma” “Cosmopolitan Affinities: The Question of the Nation in Edgeworth, Byron, and Maturin” “Women’s Magazines and the Representation of Death in 18th-Century England” “‘A World for Women’: Fictions of the Female Artist in English-Canadian Periodicals, 1840-1880"
C. LaBossière
Joseph Griffin
C. LaBossière
Roger Forseth (U. of Wisconsin) Brenda Daly (Iowa State U.)
M. Peterman (Trent U.)
2000
2000
2000
David Jarraway
C. Bullock (U. of Alberta)
1999
Don Childs
R. Granofsky (McMaster U.)
1999
Ina Ferris
Gary Kelly (U. of Alberta)
1999
April London
John Baird (Victoria College)
1999
Gerald Lynch
1999 David Bentley (U. Western Ontario)
PH.D. THESES COMPLETED OR UNDERWAY SINCE 1995 Student Name
Title of Thesis
Supervisor
External Examiner (University)
Wilson, Timothy
“The Question of Representation in Elizabethan Literature”
Bernhard Radloff/ Irene Makaryk
Len Findlay ( Saskatchewan)
1998
David Staines
R. Kroetsch (U. Manitoba)
1998
Gerald Lynch
Gwendolyn Davies (Acadia Univ.)
1998
C. La Bossière
Peter Stevens (U. Windsor)
1997
Dyer, Klay
Robbeson (Arnold), Angela
Rupert, John
Laurin, Anne-Marie
Walker, Victoria
“Recovering Stephen Leacock: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town and the Cultural Production of Value” “‘A Sense of Wider Fields and Chances’: Towards a Literary History of EnglishCanadian Satiric Fictions of the 19th Century” “‘Notations of Process of Mind’ in American Poetry Since 1945: Readings in Creeley, Whalen, Kerouac, and Ginsberg” “The Evolution of Adele Wiseman’s Creative Vision” “The Literary Paradigm and the Discourses of Culture: Contexts of Canadian Writing: 1759-1876"
Seymour Mayne
C. La Bossière
Elizabeth Greene (Queen’s U.) Mary-Lu MacDonald (Dalhousie U.)
Year
1997
1997
Maillet, Greg
“Beyond a Common Joy: Criticism and the Value of Shakespeare’s Romances”
Irene Makaryk
Turner, Dorothy
“Sir Roger L’Estrange and the Print Culture of the Restoration”
N. von Maltzahn
“On the Edge: A Critical History of Contemporary Theater in Canada”
C. La Bossière
Sherlow, Lois
A. Lynne Magnusson (U. Waterloo)
1996
1996 Hugh De Quehen (U. Toronto) Leslie Monkman (Queen’s U.)
1995