2023 Graduates
- Samuel Rowland, Sounds of the Land of Promise: Listening to Ralph Ellison’s Metaphors of Memory in Invisible Man (Supervisor, Kevin McGuirk)
- Sally Beresford-Sheridan, Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. Detecting Community in their Public, Private, and Fictional Lives.(Supervisor, Carol Acton)
- Maša Torbica, Idle No More: A Rhetorical Analysis of a Movement (Supervisor, Heather Smyth)
- Sarah Currie, The mad manifesto (Supervisor, Jay Dolmage)
- Elizabeth Brey, Digital Dialogism: Space, Time, and Queerness in Video Games (Supervisors, Gerald Voorhees and Neil Randall)
- Zachary Pearl, Fictocritical Cyberfeminism: A Paralogical Model for Post-Internet Communication (Supervisor, Marcel O'Gorman)
2022 Graduates
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Monique Kampherm, “Masks and Caricatures: Prosopopoeia, Ethopoeia, and the Effect of Social Media on Canadian Political Leaders’ Debates” (Supervisor: Randy Harris)
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Travis Morton, Alone Together: Convergence Culture and the Slender Man Phenomenon (Supervisor: John Savarese)
- Mayberry, Tommy, Queen of the Academy: Academic Drag as Pedagogy and Praxis (Supervisor: Frankie Condon)
- Cronin, Keely, Broadcasting a Performance of Caring: Social Justice and Migrant Narratives on the CBC's Canada Reads (Co-supervisors: Winfried Siemerling and Veronica Austen)
- Gibson, Ian, Some Mysterious Resonance Between Thing and Language: On Contradiction and the Materialist Theologies of Cormac McCarthy and Marilynne Robinson (Supervisor: Chad Wriglesworth)
- Doyle, Jennifer, Element Focused Inquiry: Air and Water in American Literature (Co-supervisors: Imre Szeman and Vinh Nguyen)
2021 Graduates
- Wright-Taylor, Christin, “Sorry If My Words Aren’t Right”: Writing Studies’ Partnership with Second Language Writing to Support Translingual Students in the Anglo-Canadian Classroom (Supervisor: Jay Dolmage)
- Yoon, John, Stories in Play: Narrative Formation in Sports and Esports (Supervisor: Ken Hirschkop)
- Gallagher, Sara, Black Frontiers: Race, Region, and Myth in African American Westerns, 1854-1954 (Co-supervisors Victoria Lamont and Jennifer Harris)
- Van De Kemp, Jessica-Leigh, 'The Objectifying Gaze': The Role of Adaptation in Perceptions of Gender on Television (Supervisor: Michael Macdonald)
- Rawding, Jay, Telling the Stories, Branding the Land: Examining Regional Narratives and Texts in Northern Alberta (Supervisor: Winfried Siemerling)
- Sikkema, Doug, The Myth of Disenchantment: Religion and the Enviornment in Contemporary American Literature (Supervisor: Chad Wriglesworth)
2020 Graduates
- Irwin, Ashley, Debasing Dissent: The Role of The News Media in the Devaluation of Black Canadian Activism (Co-supervisors: Heather Smyth and Frankie Condon)
- Mehrabian, Houman, "Ill Schooled in Bolted Language": Shakespeare's Tragic Flaw (Supervisor: Michael Macdonald)
- Thiessen, David, The Flesh Made Mind: Language and Embodiment in Late Middle English Literature (Supervisor: Sarah Tolmie)
- Lajoie, Jason, Technologies of Identity: A Queer Media Archaeology (Supervisor: Marcel O’Gorman)
- Ehrentraut, Judy, Disentangling the Posthuman: Broadening Perspectives of Human/Machine Mergers through Inter-relational Subjectivity (Supervisor: Marcel O’Gorman)
- Deshane, Evelyn, Wish You Were Here: Representing Trans Road Narratives in Mainstream Cinema (1970-2016) (Supervisor: Andrew McMurry)
2019 Graduates
- Dehghani, Morteza
“In Works of Hands or of the Wits of Men”: The Elegies of Wim Wenders, Laurie Anderson and Alexander Sokurov (Co-supervisors: Kevin McGuirk & Alice Kuzniar) - Haider, Amna
A Transmogrifying Discourse of Sexual Violence: Resisting, Redressing, and Re-writing Racial Scripts in Contemporary African American Women's Theatre (Co-supervisors: Frances Condon & Vershawn Young) - Ofili, Patricia
Contextual Complexities and Nelson Mandela's Braided Rhetoric (Supervisor: Frances Condon)
2018 Graduates
- Arthur, Kasandra
We Are Having All Kinds of Fun: Fluidity in Shoebox Project (Supervisor: Neil Randall) - Beer, Lacey
Tongues Tide: Translingual Directions for Technologically-Mediated Composing Platforms (Supervisor: Frances Condon) - Bermingham, Clare
Feeling Queer Together: Identity, Community, and the Work of Affect in the Pre-Stonewall Lesbian Magazine, The Ladder (Supervisor: Victoria Lamont) - Hosseini, Mohsen
Macabre Collectibles: Collecting Culture and Stephen King (Supervisor: Kevin McGuirk) - Miletic, Philip
Only Connect: The Virtual Communities of Gertrude Stein and David Foster Wallace (Supervisor: Aimée Morrison) - Neupane, Dhruba
Plurality, promises and practice: A case of Nepali immigrants’ transliterating and translanguaging in Canada (Supervisor: Jay Dolmage) - Powell, Meredith
Talk, Body, Performance: Mental Health Rhetoric in Corporate, Government, and Institutional Settings (Supervisor: Jay Dolmage) - Vossen, Emma
On the Cultural Inaccessibility of Gaming: Invading, Creating, and Reclaiming the Cultural Clubhouse (Supervisor: Neil Randall) - Whyte, Sarah
The Rhetorical Life of Surgical Checklists: A Burkean Analysis with Implications for Knowledge Translation (Supervisor: Jay Dolmage) - Woodford, Benjamin
Institutions, Theology, and the Language of Freedom in the Poetry and Prose of John Milton (Supervisor: Ken Graham)
2017 Graduates
- Adam Bradley
Critical Tools: Using Technology to Augment the Process of Literary Analysis (Co-supervisors: Mark Hancock, Marcel O'Gorman) - Ryan Clement
Playing the Story: The Emergence of Narrative through the Interaction between Players, Game Mechanics, and Participatory Fan Communities (Co-supervisors: Neil Randall, Karen Collins)
- Sarah Gibbons
Disablement Diversity Deviation: Disability in a an Age of Environmental Risk (Supervisor: Jay Dolmage) - G. Josh Henry
'That's Gold Jerry Gold!': The Sophisticated Contradiction at the Heart of Stand-up Comedy (Supervisor: Jay Dolmage) - Christine Horton
Defining the Undefinable: Rhetorics of DemocraticTortureInterrogation (Supervisor: Michael MacDonald) - Farzad Kolahjooei
Christopher Nolan and the Art of Anamorphosis (Co-supervisors: Kevin McGuirk, Alice Kuzniar)
- Mike Lesiuk
The Urban Web: Metonymic Representation in the Work of Charles Dickens and George Gissing (Supervisor: Kate Lawson) - Kyle Malasheski
Unwilled Lives: The Etiology of Poverty in Eighteenth-Century Literature (Supervisor: Rebecca Tierney-Hynes) - Saeed Sabzian
Aural Ocular and Sequential Rhetoric in two Contemporary American Stories in Prose and Film: Patterns of Anxiety in Fight Club and the Road (Supervisor: Randy Harris) - Corrie Shoemaker
Shakespeare Adaptations in a Canadian Context and the Question of Canadian Identity (Supervisor: Kenneth Graham)
2016 Graduates
- Kent Aardse
Sympathetic Imagination: Posthumanist Thought in Electronic Literature and Games (Supervisors: Beth Coleman & Neil Randall) - Stephen Fernandez
Critical Techno-dramaturgy: Mobilizing Embodied Perception in Intermedial Performance (Supervisor: Marcel O’Gorman) - Michael Hancock
Games with Words: Textual Representation in the Wake of Graphical Realism in Videogames (Supervisor: Marcel O’Gorman) - Jesse Hutchison
Private People in Public Places: Contemporary Canadian Mennonite Life Writing (Supervisor: Linda Warley) - Steve Wilcox,
Uncommon Places: The Multimodal Art of Embodied Invention (Supervisor: Aimee Morrison)
2015 Graduates
- Susan DeCoste
Rethinking Maritime Literary Regionalism: Place, Identity, and Belonging in the Works of Elizabeth Bishop, Maxine Tynes, and Rita Joe (Supervisor: Shelley Hulan) - Ryan Devitt
Foucault and Literature: Finitude, Feigning, Fabulation (Supervisor: Michael MacDonald) - Robert David Shakespeare
Marriage and the Social Contract in British Romantic Discourse (Supervisor: Tristanne Connolly) - Sarah York, novelist
Outré Aesthetics (Supervisor: Victoria Lamont)
2014 Graduates
- Lamees Al Ethari
Defragmenting Identity in the Life Narratives of Iraqi North American Women (Supervisor: Linda Warley) - Robert Clapperton
Ametros: A Technogenetic Simulation Game for Professional Communication Coursework (Supervisor: Randy Harris) - Kimberley Garwood
Plain, but not Simple: Plain Language Research with Readers, Writers, and Texts (Supervisor: Jay Dolmage) - Craig Love
Life of the Woods: A Study of Emily Dickinson (Supervisor: Kevin McGuirk) - Kevin Ziegler
Drawing on the Margins of History: English-Language Graphic Narratives in Canada (Supervisor: Linda Warley)
2013 Graduates
- Ashna Bhagwanani [now Zaidi]
Deviant Society: The Self-Reliant "Other" in Transcendental America (Supervisor: Victoria Lamont)
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Jason Hawreliak
Heroism, Gaming, and the Rhetoric of Immortality (Supervisor: Marcel O'Gorman) -
Alexis McQuigge
Resisting Transculturation: The European Woman in English Travel Writing (Supervisor: Fraser Easton)
2012 Graduates
- Stephanie M. Bell
Under Review: Source Use and Speech Representation in the Critical Review Essay (Supervisor: Catherine Schryer) - Sheila Hannon
Endorsement Editorials: Rhetorical Strategies of Compelling Arguments (Supervisor: Neil Randall) - Pamela Mansutti
Trauma and Beyond: Ethical and Cultural Constructions of 9/11 in American Fiction (Supervisor: Kevin McGuirk) - Danila Sokolov
Renaissance Texts, Medieval Subjectivities: Vernacular Genealogies of English Petrarchism from Wyatt to Wroth (Supervisor: Sarah Tolmie) - Stefanie Stiles
To Hurt the Pain: An Ethical Criticism of Nathanael West (Supervisor: Kevin McGuirk)
2011 Graduates
- Olga Gladkova
Identification of epistemic topoi in a corpus of biomedical research article (Supervisor: Randy Harris) - Diane Jakacki,
"Covetous to parley with so sweet a frontis-peece": Illustration in Early Modern English Play-Texts (Supervisor: Katherine Acheson) - Diana Lobb
Canadian Literatures Beyond the Colour Line: Re-Reading the Category of South-Asian Canadian Literature (Supervisor: Linda Warley)
2010 Graduates
- Andrew Deman
The Comics Other: Charting the Correspondence Between Comics and Difference (Co-supervisors: Andrew McMurray, Heather Smyth) - Cameron Reid
Gone Critical: Towards A Co-Creative Encounter with the Book (Supervisor: Kevin McGuirk)