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Congratulations to our newest PhD graduate, Dr. Giuseppe Femia, who successfully defended his dissertation, "Failure in Disability Game Studies." The dissertation supervisor was Dr. Neil Randall, and the readers were Dr. Jay Dolmage and Dr. Jordana Cox. The external examiner was Dr. William Joseph White and the internal/external examiner was Dr. Karen Cochrane. The defence was chaired by Dr. Richard Cleve.

Congratulations to our newest PhD graduate, Dr. Kyle Gerber, who successfully defended his dissertation, "Figuring Forgiveness: Dramatistic Aspects of Forgiveness in an Anabaptist Context." The dissertation supervisor was Dr. Randy Harris and the readers were Dr. Heather Smyth and Dr. Bruce Dadey. The external examiner was Dr. John Moffatt and the internal/external examiner was Dr. Carol Penner.

Congratulations to our newest PhD graduate, Dr. Mahnoor Bano, who successfully defended her dissertation, "Patriarchy, Power and Protest: Women’s Agency in South Asian and African Literature."

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.

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.