Theses
Since the inception of its MA program in 1990, and the PhD program in 2002, more than two hundred graduate students have successfully completed the programme in Theory and Criticism. A listing of all graduates and their MA thesis and PhD dissertation titles can be found below. Theses submitted electronically are available through Western's Electronic Theses & Dissertation Repository.
2020 to present
2024
- Yiling Hu, Assemblage, Paradox, and Becoming-cat: Making Videogames with Deleuze and Guattari, Master of Arts.
- Spencer Kett, Extinction Anxiety as Zeitgeist: An Examination of the Cultural Anxiety Surrounding Extinction Threats, Master of Arts.
- Mina Rosefield, The Only Labourer Left: Resituating the Nonhuman Animal in the Language of Labour and the History of Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy.
2023
- M. Curtis Allen, The Metaphysics of Modernism and the Aesthetics of Reason in Wittgenstein, Deleuze, and Others, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Michael A. Bodkin, Grounds for a "Third Place": The "Starbucks Experience," Sirens, and Space, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Shubhayan Chakrabarti, The Embodied Rhetoric of Cognitive Labour, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Mitch de Lange, Giving Death to the Production of Knowledge: Collective Resistance through Testimony, Master of Arts.
- Thomas A. Doerksen, The Forgetting of Fire: An Archaeology of Technics, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Shakil Malik, Empathy/Sympathy, Master of Arts.
- Anda Pleniceanu, You Unseen Cathedrals: A Study of the Conceptual Conditions of Negativity, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Suarjan Prasai, Algorithmic Hypnosis, Master of Arts.
- Ryan K. Shea, Kierkegaard and the Assumptions of Philosophy, Master of Arts.
- Jeremy R. Smith, The Cave and The Stars: On the People and Democracy of Non-Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Sean Sokolov, The Sense of Waste, Master of Arts.
- Heather Twele, A Critical Phenomenological Inquiry into Disabled Embodiment and Identity, Master of Arts.
2022
- Jeremy Arnott, Transient Constellations: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Actuality of Idealism, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Christina Elle Burke, Futures of Film Criticism: Aesthetics, Cinephilia, Philosophy, and Politics, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Lucas Dvorsky, The Digital Extreme: Cinema's Reality Crisis in a Nostalgic Age, Master of Arts.
- Can Guven, Civil War and Power: A Theoretical Inquiry, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Jennifer Komorowski, The Masochian Woman: Coming to a Philosophical Understanding of Haudenosaunee Women's Masochism, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Anna Mirzayan, Art, Work: Subsumption, Posthumanism and Artistic Responses to Surveillance Capitalism, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Megan Sherritt, Dancing beyond the Mirror Stage: Jacques Lacan and the Embodied Sinthome, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Anna E. Stoutenburg, White Histories of Antiblack Violence: an Investigation between Black Studies and Critical Theory, Master of Arts.
- Dylan T. Vaughan, Ontological Fables: Jean-Francois Lyotard's Ontology after The Differend, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Nicholas Wees, The Arts of the Street: Sense Perception, Creativity and Resistance in Everyday Urban Life, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Andrew Woods, After the Storm: Histories of Cultural Marxism/s in the United States, Doctor of Philosophy
2021
- Robert Halperin, Is Another World Possible?: Herbert Marcuse and Possibilities for 'Real' Change, Master of Arts.
- Monika Mandoki, Are Near-Death Experiences Veridical? A Philosophical Inquiry, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Alexander McIntosh, Towards A Poetics of Representation in 'London, Ontario': or, Local and Universal Passages, Master of Arts.
- Emily Monaghan, Does the Cogito Have (a) Sex?, Master of Arts.
- Liam Morantz, Alighting: A Phenomenology and Ethics of Sight and Touch in the Videocall, Master of Arts.
- Alexander Morgan, Phantasms of Hope: The Utopian Function of Fantasy Literature, Master of Arts.
- Kayleigh Shield, Addictive Potential: Regimes, Tranformations, Circulations, Master of Arts.
2020
- Deanna Aubert, The Habits of Settlement: A Critical Phenomenology of Settlerness, Master of Arts.
- Nicholas A. J. Birmingham, Cognition without Construction: Kant, Maimon, and the Transcendental Philosophy of Mathematics, Master of Arts.
- Kathryn Carney, Encountering Others: Degeneration, Distortion, and Disability in Interwar German Visual Culture, 1918-1933, Master of Arts.
- Austin Chisholm, Foucault, Affect, History: On the Art of Feeling, Master of Arts.
- Jessica N. Ellis, The Psyche and Gender as a Multiplicity, Master of Arts.
- Matthew Halse, Another Possibility: HIV and the Contemporary Moment, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Camilo Hoyos, An Ontological Critique of the Self: The Daoist ‘Non-self’ at the Heart of Jung’s Analytical Theory, Master of Arts.
- Alexandra M. Hudecki, "Second Sight": Acknowledging W.E.B. Du Bois's "Double Consciousness" as a Step Towards Dissolution, Master of Arts.
- Dylan J. Hughes, Language After God: Nietzsche, Lacan, and the Sinthome of Tragic Wisdom, Master of Arts.
- Won Jeon, Resonance, a step towards a fluency for complexity: The science, language, and epistemology of Gregory Bateson, Master of Arts.
- Michelle Liu, com-posing abolitionist≠posthumanism: notes on incommensurability, incomputability and incognita syn-aesthetics, Master of Arts.
- Taylor McGoey, Toward a Fluid Cinematic Spectatorship and Desire: Revisiting Laura Mulvey’s Psychoanalytic Film Theories , Master of Arts.
- Justas Patkauskas, An Archaeology of Contemporary Speculative Knowledge, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Matthew Prokopiw, Religion in Modern Sports Fanaticism: From Classical Antiquity to Online Sports Forums, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Ryan Shuvera, Sounding Unsettlement: Rethinking Settler States of Mind and Re(-)cognition through Scenes of Cross-Cultural Listening, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Natalie Treviño, The Cosmos is Not Finished, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Jacob Vangeest, Nietzschean Problematics, Master of Arts.
- Elden Yungblut, Between Worlds, Between Times: Thinking with Trans Narratives at the Limits of Ontology and Temporality, Master of Arts.
2015 to 2019
2019
- Colby Chubbs, Hegel avec Kleist: On Marriage, Master of Arts.
- Eva Cupchik, Excavating Feminist Phenomenology: Lived-Experiences and Wellbeing of Indigenous Students at Western University, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Jonathan Doering, The Weak Survival of French Rhetoric, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Dillon Douglas, A Geology of the General Intellect, Master of Arts.
- Dru Farro, There is a Secret Heart, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Maryam Golafshani, Critical Interventions in the Medical Humanities, Master of Arts.
- Alexander Harasymiw, Hallucinating the Ukrainian Cityscape: A Reevaluation of Walter Benjamin’s Urban Experience for a Postsocialist Context, Master of Arts.
- Maxwell Hyett, Han and Dada: Early Expressions of New Affliction, Master of Arts.
- Shannon Lodoen, The Myths That Make Us: An Examination of Canadian National Identity, Master of Arts.
- Adam Mohamed, A Deleuzean Poststructural Deconstruction, Master of Arts.
- Wil Patrick: Trial by Space: Lost Cause Monuments and Public Controversy through Bruno Latour and Henri Lefebvre, Master of Arts.
- Anca Radu, Performing Spatial Justice, Master of Arts.
- Elizabeth Song, Spirals: Spacing, Trauma, Becoming, and Autoimmunity with Caruth, Derrida, Freud, Itō, and Miyazaki, Master of Arts.
- Nicholas D. Tostowaryk, Temporalities of Revolution: On the Representation of History and Collective Action, Master of Arts.
2018
- Andrew Case, An Ecology Not Taking-Place: Analysing Ecocriticism's Move from Place and Space to Spacing and Displacement through Derrida, Morton, and Haraway, Master of Arts.
- Vladimir Cristache, Bastard Reasoning: A "Preposterous" History of Walter Benjamin's Ideas, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Richard Dew, Pheneticism As A Cultural And Literary Critique Of Human Interaction, Master of Arts.
- David Guignion, The Mirror of Humanism; or, Towards a Baudrillardian Posthuman Theory, Master of Arts.
- Domenic Hutchins, The Passing Away Of Nature: Two Essays On Natural History, Master of Arts.
- Joseph Leivdal, Subjectivity, Passion, and Mystical Intuition: Nietzsche's Early Writing, Master of Arts.
- Joshua Livingstone, Preparing to Receive: On the Revolutionary Questioning of Being and Time, Master of Arts.
- Jonathan Nash, The Politics of Wounds, Master of Arts.
- Tyler Nash, Can the Undead Speak?: Language Death as a Matter of (Not) Knowing, Master of Arts.
- Jacob Norris, 1981: One or Several Aesthetics?, Master of Arts.
- Averil Novak, Post-Foundational Subjects and the Aesthetics of Dispossession, Doctor of Philosophy.
- John Nyman, Double/Cross: Erasure in Theory and Poetry, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Adam Rejak, The Event of Blues Music and the Effects of Technology on the Artistic Event, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Alexander Walker, Monuments of the Present: The Document and Monument in Michel Foucault's Archaeology, Master of Arts.
2017
- Anthony C. Coughlin, Tracing the Interstice: Godard, Deleuze, and The Future of Cinema, Master of Arts.
- Lee Fraser, Reblogging Gender: Non-Binary Transgender Subjectivities and the Internet, Master of Arts.
- Marshall Hill, The Revolution Will Be Social and Poetic: The Insurgent Poetics of Decolonial Thought, Master of Arts.
- Jennifer Komorowski, The Voice as an Object of Desire in the Work of Ann Quin, Master of Arts.
- Kathryn M. Lawson, The Tapestry of Memory, Master of Arts.
- Lawrence Liang, On That Heart-Knotting Feeling: An Outline, Master of Arts.
Dolleen Manning, Mnidoo-Worlding: Merleau-Ponty and Anishinaabe Philosophical Translations, Doctor of Philosophy.- Evan Pebesma, Laughing Doubles: The Duality of Humour, Master of Arts.
- Jeffrey M. Ray, The Ontological-Ontic Character of Mythology, Master of Arts.
- Thomas M. Szwedska, Autos, Allos, and World: Life and Identity in the Situation of Contemporary Global Modernity, Master of Arts.
2016
- Jeremy Arnott, The Correspondence(s) of Benjamin and Adorno, Master of Arts.
- Derek Barnett, The Primacy of Resistance: Anarchism, Foucault, and the Art of Not Being Governed, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Rachel Bath, In-Between What Once Was and What is Yet to Come: On the Phenomena of Bereavement and Grieving, Master of Arts.
- Rebecca Bernstein, Very Pressing Television and Other Imaginary Things, Master of Arts.
- Kathryn Grant, Bodies: Punk, Love and Marxism, Master of Arts.
- Michael Hajik, Ethics and Responsibility of Post-Colonial
Allyness , Master of Arts. - Mary McLevey, Living Perception in Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Master of Arts.
2015
- Andrew Evans, An Esoteric Doctrine: Nietzsche's Politics and Way of Life, Master of Arts.
- Eric Guzzi, Historiography in French Theory, Master of Arts.
- Vincent Marzano-Poitras, De Heidegger à Henry, critique de la transcendance et phénoménologie du corps vivant, Master of Arts.
- Svitlana Matviyenko, Lacan's Cybernetics, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Daniel McFadden, Viral Possibilities: Media, the Body, and the Phenomenon of Infection, Master of Arts.
- David Miller, Guilty Subjects: The Biopolitical Function of Guilt in
Neoliberal States, Master of Arts. - Matthew Prokopiw, Addiction: the colonization of rituals, Master of Arts.
- Mazen Saleh, Jouissance and Being in Lacanian Discourse, Master of Arts.
- Trevor Smith, Theorizing an Online Politics: How the Internet is Reconfiguring Political Space, Subjectivity, Participation, and Conflict, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Dylan Vaughan, Praesentia Sublimis: Studies in the
Differend , Master of Arts. - Sarah Warren, For the Good of the Thing, Master of Arts.
- Andrew Weiss, Animal Justice: Following Derrida & Other Animals, Master of Arts.
- Benjamin Woodard, Schelling's Naturalism: Motion, Space, and the Volition of Thought, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Sheena L. Yates, Agoraphobia And Emptiness: Theoretical Considerations From A Psychoanalytic Perspective, Doctor of Philosophy.
2010 to 2014
2014
- M. Curtis Allen, Deleuze Through Wittgenstein: Essays in Transcendental Empiricism, Master of Arts.
- Christopher M. Bomba, Crossing the Law: Trans Activism, Aleatory Materialism, and the Analyst's Discourse, Master of Arts.
- Grant Dempsey, Deleuze's Apocalypse, Master of Arts.
- Jonathan R. Fardy, A Photographer
Develops: Reading Robinson, Rejlander, and Cameron, Doctor of Philosophy. - Scott Herder, Producing Undecidability: Placing History in the Work of Jacques Rancière, Master of Arts.
- Christopher Langlois, Literature in the Archive of Terror: Badiou, Blanchot, Beckett, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Kate Lawless, Preservationist Aesthetics: Memory, Trauma and the New Global Enclosures, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Derek Liu, The Almost Nothing of the Unpresentable": the Experience of "My Death" in the thought of Jacques Derrida, Master of Arts.
- Brett Mommersteeg, Space, Territory, Occupy: Towards a Non-Phenomenological Dwelling, Master of Arts.
- Mikhail Pozdniakov, Epistemology of the Cartesian Image, Master of Arts.
- William E. Rankin IV, Experiencing Nothing: Anxiety and the Philosophy of Alain Badiou, Master of Arts.
- Jarrad Reddekop, Thinking Across Worlds: Indigenous Thought, Relational Ontology, and the Politics of Nature; Or, If Only Nietzsche Could Meet A Yachaj, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Michael Saunders, Without Religion: Non-Philosophy and Messianism, Master of Arts.
- Siobhan M. Watters, Food Ontology and Distribution: Ethical Perception and the Food Object, Master of Arts.
- Thomas Wormald, Sculpted Selves, Sculpted Worlds: Plasticity and Habit in the Thought of Catherine Malabou, Master of Arts.
2013
- Robbie Cormier, Basic Cable: Notes Toward Digital Ontology, Master of Arts.
- Nathaniel Coward, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Hannah Arendt: The Intersection of Institution, Natality, and Birth, Master of Arts.
- Jason D'Aoust, The Orpheus Figure: The Voice in Writing, Music and Media, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Karen Dewart McEwen, Extra-Capitalist Thought, Master of Arts.
- Nicholas A. Fagundo, The Violence of Aesthetics: Benjamin, Kane, Bolaño, Master of Arts.
- Andrew Kingston, Hegel's Unconscious: Analyzing Matter in the Philosophy of Nature, Master of Arts.
- Claudie Massicotte, Talking Nonsense: Spiritual Mediums and Female Subjectivity in Victorian and Edwardian Canada, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Inna Viriasova, Life Beyond Politics: Toward the Notion of the Unpolitical, Doctor of Philosophy.
2012
- Kamran Ahmed, Descartes’ Askesis, Master of Arts.
- Sarah Brumwell, Temporality, Imagination, and the Right to Have Rights, Master of Arts.
- Dock Currie, Composing the Cities of Flow: Unitary Urbanism and the Ontology of Water Infrastructure, Master of Arts.
- Noel Glover, Shame and the Sharing of Existence, Master of Arts.
- Andrew Grant, Securing Populations: Foucault and the Cartography of Natural Bodies, Master of Arts.
- Julian Haladyn, The Will to Boredom, Doctor of Philosophy.
- James Hall, In the Fullness of Time: M. M. Bakhtin, In Discourse and in Life, Master of Arts.
- Mark Jull, City Limits: A Psychoanalysis of Urbanism and Everyday Life, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Emanuele Leonardi, Biopolitics of Climate Change: Carbon Commodities, Environmental Profanations, and the Lost Innocence of Use-Value, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Marc Mazur, The Cruelty of Reading: Reading and Writing in the Works of Friedrich Schelling, Master of Arts.
- Malcolm McPherson, Dissident Spaces, Master of Arts.
- Tyler Miller, Comparing Arche-Writing, Master of Arts.
- Aarnoud Rommens, Antropofagia and Constructive Universalism: A Diptych, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Kristen Shaw, Ruining Representation in the Novels of China Miéville: A Deleuzian Analysis of Assemblages in Railsea, The Scar, and Embassytown, Master of Arts.
- Sarah Thorne, The Cleaving of House and Home: A Lacanian Analysis of Architectural Aesthetics, Master of Arts.
2011
- Brendan Bruce, The Subject and the Ghost of Immanence, Master of Arts.
- Galen Crout, Expanding the Bounds of Critique: Kant and Benjamin, Master of Arts.
- Jennifer Gartner, From Terminology to Ontology, Master of Arts.
- Owen Glyn-Williams, The Politics of
Kants ' Aesthetics, Master of Arts. - Stephen Gray Jibb, Austerity in America, Doctor of Philosophy.
- David Janzen, The Right to Politics, Master of Arts.
- Ian McCausland, Thinking Where I am (k)not, Master of Arts.
- Jared McGeough, Romantic
Anarche : The Philosophical and Literary Anarchism of William Godwin, Doctor of Philosophy. - Cristian Melchiorre, The Downward Path, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Sara Rodrigues, Vaginal Biopolitics, Master of Arts.
- Laura Rooney, Contemplating Suicide, Master of Arts.
- William Samson, Rights As Praxis, Master of Arts.
- Marshall Smith, Touch My Desire, Master of Arts.
- Hart Walker, Perceiving Cosmopolitanism, Master of Arts.
- John Vanderheide, Allegory and Apocatastasis, Doctor of Philosophy.
2010
- Mary Bunch, Outlawry and the Experience of the (
Im )possible: Deconstructing Biopolitics, Doctor of Philosophy. - Brendon Langer, Literature and its Dimensions, Master of Arts.
2005 to 2009
2009
- Brock Baines, The Practice of Freedom: Kant and Levinas in Proximity, Master of Arts.
- Michael Bennett, Sociality and Infinity, Master of Arts.
- Jason Dockstader, Spinoza's Divine Wisdom, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Kane Faucher,
Oncontology : Plateau 1001, Doctor of Philosophy. - Ariel Fuenzalida, Pharmakontologies, Doctor of Philosophy.
- Laura Krahn, Eat Your Words: The Incorporation of Language and Body, Master of Arts.
- Alasdair McMillan, Mechanism, Dynamism and Subjectivity, Master of Arts.
- Laurel Mitchell, Find the Dyke in This Picture, Master of Arts.
Catherene Ngoh, Memory and Truth, Master of Arts.- Jessica Reilly, Beyond the Spectacle: Rethinking Debord, Master of Arts.
- Jessica Sherman, Israel and Its Discontents, Master of Arts.
2008
- Mark Asberg, Go On, Give Up: Cynical Aporias, Doctor of Philosophy.
- LindaBeth Nichols, Engendering Heteronormativity: A Critical Analysis of Marriage in the United States as a Discursive Site of Cross-Institutional Practices, Master of Arts.
- Sheena McKay, Taboo, Laughter, Shame in Psychoanalysis, Master of Arts.
- Gerald McKinley, Tease of the New Earthdivers: Following Native Narrative in Search of New Identities, Master of Arts.
- Adam Parker, Effective History, Master of Arts.
- Christopher Shaw, The Mouse That Roared: Information Theory and the Clinamen, Master of Arts.
- Adrian Sinclair, Thinking the Digital Corporeally, Master of Arts.
- Kevin Spencer, Swearing: Force and Language, Master of Arts.
2007
- Kieran Aarons, Time and Intensity in Deleuze's Difference and Repetition, Master of Arts.
- Leila El Qawas, Thinking Literature, Master of Arts.
- Shannon Foskett, Speculative Science: Gilles Deleuze, Chaos & the Quantum, Master of Arts.
- Corey Katz, The Territorialisation of Responsibility: International Relations, Kant, and the Failure of the Levinasian Turn, Master of Arts.
- Emily Smart, A Grammar of Grey: A Study of Crowds, Clouds and Pronouns, Master of Arts.
- Joshua Synenko, Uncommon Singularities: Event, Politics and Representation, Master of Arts.
- Elise Thorburn, The Crude and the Abject: A Psychoanalysis of the Oil Economy, Master of Arts.
- Sarah Trimble, Monstrous: Action, Life and Citizenship in Science Fiction, Master of Arts.
- Jakub Zdebik, The Extraordinary Contraction, Doctor of Philosophy.
2006
- Timothy August, The Edible Plebiscite, Master of Arts.
- Matthew Austin, Critical Studies on the Subject, the Genius Figure and Faust, Master of Arts.
- David Collins, Physical and Artistic Taste in Hegel, Nietzsche and Huysmans, Master of Arts.
- Averil Farrar, Toward a Critical 'Ontology of the Present', Master of Arts.
- Petra Hroch, Puppet Masters: Aesthetics and Politics of the
Marionnette , Master of Arts. - Darren MacDonald, (En)counter Dialogues, Master of Arts.
- Martin McCallum, Trauma and Metaphor: Lacan, Lacapra, and the 'Poetic Spark', Master of Arts.
- Andrew Robb, Hegemony and Governmentality, Master of Arts.
2005
- Dustin Atlas, Kierkegaard's Grotesque, Master of Arts.
- Christopher Bundock, Ethics and Writing, Master of Arts.
- Shea Coulson, Adorno's Aesthetics of Critique, Master of Arts.
- Andrea Dumbrell, A History of Care in the Work of Michel Foucault, Master of Arts.
- Jason Dockstader, Gigantomachia: Spinoza vs. Heidegger, Master of Arts.
- Tara Kachroo, Under the Sign of Transparency, Master of Arts.
- Joshua Lambier, Justice, Community and the Romantic Political Unconscious, Master of Arts.
Dolleen Manning, Anishinabemowin: Language that Gives to the Eternal Impasse, Master of Arts.- Christopher Morrison, Post-Heideggereanism and the Co-Ontological Horizon, Master of Arts.
- Alexei Procyshyn, 'Silence': Towards a Critical Theory, Master of Arts.
- Kathryn Simpson, Minerva's Owl, Master of Arts.
- Carolyn Veldstra, Subversive Postmodern Humour in the Era of Its Impossibility, Master of Arts.
2000 to 2004
2004
- Dana M. Broadbent, Outside of All Places?, Master of Arts.
- Fiona Coll, Writing Without Authority in the Practice of Everyday Life, Master of Arts.
- Timothy De Vries, Passage Atlas: Benjamin and the Arcades, Master of Arts.
- Selena Horrell, "Worlding" Corporeality, "
Dis Placing " Globalization, Master of Arts. - Lila Knighton, Expressive Marks: Women's Self-Injury and Communication, Master of Arts.
- Allison Mackey, The Gift That Keeps on Giving: Guilt Language and Reparation, Master of Arts.
- Maureen Melnyk, Monstrous Expressions: On the "Style" of Tattooed Women, Master of Arts.
- Jonathan Murphy, Onto-Epistemology after Metaphysics, Master of Arts.
- Jeremy Proulx, Non-Contemplative Idealism, Master of Arts.
2003
- Heidi Arsenault, Basic Cable: Notes Toward Digital Ontology, Master of Arts.
- Darryl Biedron, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Hannah Arendt: The Intersection of Institution, Natality, and Birth, Master of Arts.
- Elana Commisso, Simulate This! Figurations of Simulacra: The Truth(s) that Belie Representation, Master of Arts.
- Siobhan Corr, The New World: (Re)mapping the Globe, Master of Arts.
- Heather Egger, A Glittering Set of Things: Performing Postmodern Subjectivities, Master of Arts.
- Rachel Hancock, The Violence of Aesthetics: Benjamin, Kane, Bolaño, Master of Arts.
- Timothy Kaposy, The Claim of Errancy: Psychoanalysis and Ideation, Master of Arts.
- Cristian Melchiorre, Affect and Transference in Theoretical Discourse, Master of Arts.
- Steven Millar, New Abolitionism, White
Abjections , and the Cooption of Antiracism, Master of Arts. - Tara Mimnagh, Living Dead Girl: Death, Representation and Repetition, Master of Arts.
- Andrew Pendakis, Hegel's Unconscious: Analyzing Matter in the Philosophy of Nature, Master of Arts.
- John Reed, Life Beyond Politics: Toward the Notion of the Unpolitical, Master of Arts.
2002
- Mary Bunch, Mapping the Secrets of Life, Master of Arts.
- Camilla Eckbo, The Iterable Sublime: Towards a Theory of Communication, Master of Arts.
- Cynthia Leighton, Mechanics of Thought and Its Relation to the Concept of Life, Master of Arts.
- Bernard Lesawich, Towards a Politics of the Posthuman, Master of Arts.
- Margaret Macpherson, The Politics of
Thereism , Master of Arts. - Ursula Misztal, The Elemental Coding of Sexual Difference, Master of Arts.
- Andrea
Schwam , Mis entre parenthèses, Master of Arts. - Surti Singh, Negativity in Hegel, Master of Arts.
- John Vanderheide, On Ideology and the Ideological Ritual of Allegory, Master of Arts.
- Jakub Zdebik, A Diagram of Allegory: Benjamin, Deleuze and the Space of Language, Master of Arts.
2001
- Christopher Bradd, On the Fields of Emergence: Towards a Politics of Time, Master of Arts.
- Elizabeth Guerrier, The Promise of Justice: Interpreting Mi'kmaw Treaties in an Ever-Changing World, Master of Arts.
- David Patrick, Chemistry at Work: Drugs, Mysticism, Theory, Master of Arts.
2000
- Keith Bresnahan, Nothing, Really: Absence, Negativity, and the Last Word (On Theological Remainders in Post-Heideggerian Thought), Master of Arts.
- Kevin Davis,
Hypnogony : The Sleep of Philosophy-An Art of Sleep, Master of Arts. - Jared Hunt, Image (Gesture) Text: Toward an Aesthetic of Gesture in William Hogarth and Walter Benjamin, Master of Arts.
- Randy Innes, Architecture at Sea: Desire, Rhythm, and the Poetic Image, Master of Arts.
- Katherine Kiloh, A girl, being, a sculpture: Eva Hesse, Emmanuel Levinas, and the ethical image, Master of Arts.
- Zahra McDoom, Unsettled Identity: Rhizomes, Home and Diaspora in the West Indies, Master of Arts.
- Julie Petruzzellis, Anti-Optant: First Nations Rights, Citizenship, and Radical Democracy, Master of Arts.
- Heather Snell, Spacing the Event: The Theoretical Performance of Jean Baudrillard, Master of Arts.
- Graeme Stout, Vienna-Berlin-Frankfurt: The
Fragmenation of Subjectivity in Weimar Germany, Master of Arts.
1992 to 1999
1999
- Mark Asberg, Towards a Kantian Ethics of (In)decisive Obligation, Master of Arts.
- Brett Buchanan, Who is Nietzche's Philosophy?: Psychological Remainders of Post-Kantian Anthropology, Master of Arts.
- Neil Gohill, "Spirit" in Schelling's Freedom Essay, Master of Arts.
- Nathaniel Leach, The Ethical Face and the Tragic Mask: Levinas and the Responsibility of Tragedy, Master of Arts.
- Kim Olynyk, Suffering, Master of Arts.
- Stephen Schryer, Discourses of Delinquency: Language and Power in a Canadian Juvenile Court, Master of Arts.
- Dorian Stuber, Waving, Drowning: Trauma, Representation, Corporeality, Master of Arts.
1998
- Colin MacPherson, The Spirit, Grace, and the Soul of Science, Master of Arts.
- Laura Penny, Spent, Master of Arts.
- Cynthia Thoroski, Re/Collective Narratives: Relational Economy in the Confessional Ethnography of Michel Leiris and Eric Michaels, Master of Arts.
1997
- R. Scott Bakker, Supernaut: An Assay into the Temporalities of Performance and Representation, Master of Arts.
- Jennifer Caruso, Towards a Theory of the Threshold: Levinas, Benjamin, Proust, Master of Arts.
- Jennifer Dyer, The Theory of Repetition: Rothko and Kierkegaard, Master of Arts.
- Maria Lundin, Spiral/Translation/Skin: An Aesthetic History of the Video Image, Master of Arts.
- Allyson Lunny,
Queerying Homosexuality as Inversion: The Trope of Inversion and the Heterosexualizing Imperative, Master of Arts. - Gary Peters, Martin Heidegger and the Ethics of Deconstruction, Master of Arts.
- John Sawicki, Towards a Politics of Apathy: Baudrillard, Bartleby and Adorno, Master of Arts.
1996
- Nandita Biswas, The Anxiety of Conscience: On the Non-Concept of Community, Master of Arts.
- George Conway, Spivak/Bhabha: Re-Reading Foucault, Power- Knowledge and Said's Orientalism, Master of Arts.
- Amanda Gryzb, Jacques Derrida and the Holocaust: Cinders, Deconstruction and Excessive Responsibility, Master of Arts.
- Gordon Hughes, Scare Marks: Towards an Ontology of Anti-Semitism, Master of Arts.
- Christine Tetrault, All that is Sol(i)d: Cultural Capital, Private/Public Intellectuals and the Politics of Pedagogy, Master of Arts.
- Tyler Tokaryk, Ontoepistomologies and
Ethicopolitics within Canadian Multiculturalism, Master of Arts. - Richard van Oort, Speech-Act Theory and Generative Anthropology: The Performative Context of Language, Master of Arts.
- Timothy Wood, The Eleventh Thesis:
Strategico -Theoretical Integrations of JeanBeaudrillard & the Situationist International, Master of Arts.
1995
- Michelle Amlin, Thoroughly Modern Millennium: Articulating Discourses of "Otherness", Master of Arts.
- James Brouwer, Over & Over: From Derrida to Hegel and Beyond, Master of Arts.
- Robert Diab, The Crisis of Modernity: Husserl and Heidegger, Metaphysics and Science, Master of Arts.
- Jonathan Singer, Sign(all)
ing the Subject: A Critique of the Baudrillardean Subject, Master of Arts. - Linda Wayne, The War of Position in Canadian Universities, Master of Arts.
- Karen Wirsig, Pass/Fail? Resistance and University Work, Master of Arts.
1994
- Lynn (Adam) Hughey, (De)Composing Derrida's Mourning, Restitution, and the Sublime, Master of Arts.
- Jean M. Bruce, Feminism and Postcoloniality: The Postmodern Ethnographic Cinema of Trinh T. Minh-ha, Master of Arts.
- Catherine Hobbs, Postmodern Feminist Parody: An Alternative Cultural Mode for Postmodern Feminism, Master of Arts.
- Terry Hoople, The SM Ascetic Practice of Resistance: A Critical Ethnography, Master of Arts.
- Matrix, Sidney (M. Reynolds), (Un)Authorized Disclosures: Lesbian: Theory, Master of Arts.
- Kym Pruesse, Reader in Crisis: The Performative Tensions of Transgressive Theory: Theoretical Premises of Hybridization in the Work of Georges Bataille, Julia Kristeva, and Jacques Derrida, Master of Arts.
- Mark Rozahegy, Levinas and the Architecture of Alterity, Master of Arts.
1993
- Sheila Butler, Psychoanalysis, Agency and Androgyny: The Work of Meret Oppenheim, Master of Arts.
- Nina
Bombier , The Politics of Hermeneutics: Agency, Objectivity and Feminist Theory, Master of Arts. - Michael C. K. Ma, The Completely Buried Woodshed: Some Problems of Self-Reflexivity and Historicity in the Interpretation of Postmodern Visual Art Work, Master of Arts.
- William McConnell, Figuring Paul de Man: (Literary) History and the Indeterminacy of the Reading/Writing Subject(s), Master of Arts.
- Daniel Mellamphy, Master of Arts.
- Susan K. Varney, Putting Love into Words: Kristeva's Heretical Ethic of Signs, Master of Arts.
1992
- D. Grant Stirling, Psychoanalysis and Grammatology: Freud (Lacan) Derrida, Master of Arts.
- Michelle K. Owen, Simone de Beauvoir and the Radicalization of 'Woman': Identity Politics and Politics and Political Action, Master of Arts.
- Imre Szeman, Critics, Ironists, and Agents of Love: Richard Rorty's Intellectuals, Master of Arts.