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List of graduates for spring 2025.

Congratulations to our newest PhD graduate, Dr. Chris Giannakopoulos! Chris's dissertation is titled "Knowing Language: The Poetics of Epistemology in Jan Zwicky, Paul Muldoon, and Geoffrey Hill." His supervisor was Dr. David Williams and readers were Dr. Ken Hirschkop and Dr. Kevin McGuirk. His external examiner was Dr. Eric Falci, and the internal/external examiner was Dr. Andrew Faulkner. His defence was chaired by Dr. Shannon Majowicz.

Congratulations to our newest PhD graduate, Dr. Stephanie Samboo! Stephanie's dissertation is titled "Changing Education One Story at a Time." Her supervisor was Dr. Frankie Condon, and her readers were Dr. Jay Dolmage and Dr. Barbara Schmenk. The external examiner was Dr. Asao Inoue, and the internal/external examiner was Dr. Kim Nguyen. The defence was chaired by Dr. Marta Berbes.

Congratulations to our newest PhD graduate, Dr. Michael Domonchuk! Michael's dissertation is titled "Confronting the Entity: The Implied Presence and Transcending the Role of Voyeur in Horror Cinema." His supervisors were Dr. Kevin McGuirk and Dr. Alice Kuzniar, and his readers were Dr. Marcel O'Gorman and Dr. John Savarese. The external examiner was Dr. André Loiselle, and the internal/external examiner was Dr. James Skidmore. The defence was chaired by Dr. Pavle Radovanovic.

Congratulations to our newest PhD graduate, Dr. Elizaveta Shatalova! Elizaveta's dissertation is titled "Between Popular Cultural Authorship and Post-Scholarly Criticism: The Structural Analysis of the Digital Video Essay Form". Her supervisor was Michael MacDonald and readers were Ken Hirschkop and Kevin McGuirk. Her external examiner was Kara Wittman and the internal/external examiner was Jordana Cox. Her defence was chaired by Jennifer Hunter.

Congratulations to our newest PhD graduate, Dr. Christopher Cameron! Christopher's dissertation is titled "English Identity After Britain: Restructuring Englishness in the 20^th Century." His supervisor was Dr. John Savarese, and his readers were Dr. Heather Love and Dr. Carol Acton. The external examiner was Dr. Janice Ho, and the internal/external examiner was Dr. Daniel Gorman. The defence was chaired by Dr. Jennifer Hunter.

List of graduating students.

Congratulations to our newest PhD graduate, Dr. Justin Carpenter! Justin's dissertation is titled "Relationality and Ecosystem: On the Narrativity of Generative Systems in Literature and Video Games." His supervisor was Dr. Ken Hirschkop and readers were Dr. Michael MacDonald and Dr. Heather Smyth. His external examiner was Dr. Stephen Ramsay and the internal/external examiner was Dr. Mina Momeni. His defence was chaired by Dr. Jenine McCutcheon.

Congratulations to our newest PhD graduate, Dr. Alexi Orchard! Alexi's dissertation is titled "Interdisciplinary Pedagogy for Ethical Engineering and Responsible Innovation". Her supervisor was Marcel O'Gorman and Jennifer Boger and readers were Heather Love and Brad Mehlenbacher. Her external examiner was Brent Jesiuk and the internal/external examiner was Paul Heidebrecht. Her defence was chaired by Heather Mair.

Congratulations to our newest PhD graduate, Dr. Shannon Lodoen! Shannon's dissertation is titled "Subjectivity Under the Smartphone:
A Rhetorical Examination of Digital Communications Technologies." Her supervisor was Andrew McMurry and readers were Dr. Lai-Tze Fan and Dr. Winfried Siemerling. The external examiner was Dr. Casey Boyle and the internal/external examiner was Dr. Shana MacDonald. Her defence was chaired by Dr. Rajibul Islam.