2008

BANKS, Michelle
Phenomenal Fictions: The Dynamics of Connection in Two Contemporary American Multi-Textual Constructs, Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy and Toni Morrison's Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise
Supervisor: Martin Kreiswirth; 2nd Reader: Thomas Carmichael
External Examiner: Paul Budra (Simon Fraser University)

BUMA, Michael
Refereeing Identity: The Cultural Work of Canadian Hockey Novels
Supervisor: Manina Jones; 2nd Reader: Joseph Zezulka
External Examiner: James Dopp (UVic)

HENRY, Sean
"Strange Similes": The Faerie Queene and Renaissance Natural History
Supervisor: Peter Auksi; 2nd Reader: James Purkis
External Examiner: Judith Owens (University of Manitoba)

JOHNSTON, James
Writing (in) the Spaces of Persecution: Cross-confessional Interpretation, Authorship, and Anxiety in Anthony Munday and Thomas Nashe
Supervisor: Paul Werstine; 2nd Reader: M.J. Kidnie
External Examiner: Elizabeth Hanson (Queen's University)

KROTZ, Sarah
The Eye of the Surveyor: Settler Writers and the Mapping of English Canada
Supervisor: D.M.R. Bentley
External Examiner: Brian Trehearne (McGill University)

MITCHELL, Amy
Form and Transcendence: Touching the Limits of Poetry in Ezra Pound's Rock-Drill and Thrones, and Basil Bunting's Briggflatts
Supervisor: Stephen Adams; 2nd Reader: Jonathan Boulter
External Examiner: Miranda Hickman (McGill)

MOORE, Andrew
Embodying Empire: Roman Plays on the Early Modern English Stage
Supervisor: M.J. Kidnie; 2nd Reader: Paul Werstine
External Examiner: Jill Levenson (U of T)

SHEARER, Karis
Constructing Canons: Postmodern Cultural Workers and the Canadian Long Poem
Supervisor: Frank Davey; 2nd Reader: Stephen Adams
External Examiner: Russell Brown (U of T)

VINCENT, Douglas
A Buddhist Reading Supervisor: Bryce Traister; 2nd Reader: Thomas Carmichael
External Examiner: Nicola Nixon (Concordia University)

2007

ARAUJO, Anderson
Into the Vortex: Ezra Pound's Guide to Kulchur and the Cultural Politics of Modernism, 1914-1939
Supervisor: Leon Surette; 2nd Reader: Stephen Adams
External Examiner: Miranda Hickman (McGill University)

BRUCE, Barbara
Tropes of Collection and the Construction of Canada in English-Canadian Literature
Supervisor: Manina Jones; 2nd Reader: Diana Brydon
External Examiner: Heather Murray (University of Toronto)

HARTLEY, Michelle
Rewriting Region: Constructing Regionality in West Coast Literature 1960-2005 Supervisor: Manina Jones; 2nd Reader: Frank Davey
External Examiner: Alison Calder (University of Manitoba)

JOSEPH, Nigel
Discipline into Repression: Contractualism, Self and Empire in Locke, Austen and the Victorian Novel
Supervisor: Tilottama Rajan; 2nd Reader: Joel Faflak
External Examiner: Daniel O'Quinn (University of Guelph)

KIMBALL, Alexandra
"Useless Information": Oscar Wilde Against the New Journalism
Supervisor: Matthew Rowlinson; 2nd Reader: Joel Faflak
External Examiner: Dennis Denisoff (Ryerson University)

MARTIN, M. Daniel
Victorian Bodies in Motion: Literature, Technology, Kinetics 1850-1900
Supervisor: Christopher Keep; 2nd Reader: Matthew Rowlinson
External Examiner: Kelly Hurley (University of Colorado)

MOC, Marcela Polyglot Rhetoric and the Construction of Subjectivity: The Effect of Doubling, Reflection, and Thematic Patterning in the Fiction of Joseph Conrad and Vladimir Nabokov
Supervisor: Alison Lee; 2nd Reader: Allan Pero
External Examiner: Lynn Wells (University of Regina)

ORANGE, Thomas
Clark Coolidge in Context: A New American Poetry 1962-1978
Supervisor: Stephen Adams; 2nd Reader: Frank Davey
External Examiner: Bob Perelman (University of Pennsylvania)

PARMAR, Prabhjot
Divided Land, Divided Bodies: Representations of Nationalism and Violence in Literature and Films on the Partition of India
Supervisor: Chris Gittings; 2nd Reader: Nandi Bhatia
External Examiner: Deepika Bahri (Emory University)

POOLEY, Charles
The Performance of Context: Narrative Voice as Vehicle of Creativity and Comment in the Postmodern American Novel
Supervisor: Thomas Carmichael; 2nd Reader: Bryce Traister
External Examiner: Paul Budra (Simon Fraser University)

SNELL, Heather
Exotic Places to Read: Desire, Resistance, and the Postcolonial
Supervisor: Diana Brydon; 2nd Reader: Thomas Carmichael
External Examiner: Christopher Bongie (Queen’s University)

VANDYK, Conrad
The Exemplum as Legal Case: John Gower and the Limits of the Law
Supervisor: Russell Poole; 2nd Reader: Laurence de Looze
External Examiner: Matthew Giancarlo (Yale University)