Congratulations to our newest PhD graduate, Dr. Meghan Riley, who successfully defended her dissertation, "Altering Bodies, Altering Minds: Examining Essentialism, Gendered Discrimination and Violence, Racism, and Colonialism through Speculative Fiction Tropes."
Congratulations to our newest PhD graduate, Dr. Kem-Laurin Lubin, who successfully defended her dissertation, "Ethotic Heuristics in Artificial Intelligence: A Rhetorical Framework for Guiding Responsible Data Design Praxis in Healthcare and Surveillance."
Congratulations to our newest PhD graduate, Dr. Aleksander Franiczek!
We're proud to announce the names of the English Language and Literature students who will receive their degrees at the fall 2025 convocation this weekend. Congratulations to all!
Congratulations Dr. Chris Martin!
Congratulations to our newest PhD graduate, Dr. Carolyn Eckert, who successfully defended her dissertation, "Punctuated Ethos: Addressing Trust, Credibility and Expertise in Times of Crisis." The dissertation supervisor was Dr. Ashley Mehlenbacher and the readers were Dr. Heather Love and Dr. Brianna Wiens. The external examiner was Dr. Nathan Johnson and the internal/external examiner was Dr. Elena Neiterman. The defence was chaired by Dr. Mark Crowley.
Congratulations to recent PhD graduate, Dr. Chitra Karki, who successfully defended his dissertation, "A Decentering Other of the Academy: Disrupting the Ordinariness of Racism and English Native Speakerism in Canadian University Education, and in the Study and Teaching of Writing in Canadian Writing Classrooms."
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.
List of graduating students.