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After "Postmemory": Coping with Holocaust Remembrance in Postmodern Hebrew Literature
(2015-08-28)This interdisciplinary study suggests that the time has come to pursue a new modality of Holocaust remembrance. It assumes that when we speak of “remembering” we are referring to acts of remembrance, for, with the exception ... -
After Collective Memory: Postnational Europe and Socially Engaged Art
(2015-12-16)This thesis focuses on works of public art that enjoy proven success in challenging the national bias of European heritage practice. By developing methods at the intersection between collective memory, critical historiography, ... -
Among Umwelten: Meaning-Making in Critical Posthumanism
(2019-03-05)Conceptualizations of meaning ground formulations of human/nonhuman animal similarity and difference. Anthropocentric accounts of meaning-making are increasingly untenable in light of contemporary knowledge of nonhuman ... -
Art and Otherness: Tragic Visions in Modern Literature
(2018-11-21)My dissertation is entitled Art and Otherness: Tragic Visions in Modern Literature. The two main subjects of inquiry I take up are the figure of the otherboth as an expression of phenomenological alterity and as a postcolonial ... -
Ecology out of Bounds: Environmental Humanities Scholarship for Multi-Species and Transdisciplinary Contexts
(2017-07-27)This dissertation argues that the critical, political and ethical resources shaping popular and scholarly forms of Anglo-North American environmentalism lack the theoretical and imaginative tools to address the challenges ... -
Essay in Judgment: Reading for Aesthetics in Mansfield Park
(2018-11-21)My dissertation demonstrates how Mansfield Park, which contains philosophically compelling claims about judgment generally and aesthetic judgment specifically, makes these claims through a reading experience that is itself ... -
"Generation 9/11": Canadian Muslim Youth Negotiating Nationalist and Sexual Subjectivities
(2018-11-21)While much attention has been given to the impact on adult Muslims religious identities in the post-9/11 era, little research has been conducted on young Muslims who have grown up in this period. Moreover, the limited ... -
Henry Langley, a Man Who Built Churches: Religion and Architecture in 19th-Century Ontario
(2016-11-25)Henry Langley (1836-1907), was the most prolific church architect for all denominations in what would become Ontario in the nineteenth century. This dissertation considers the church architecture of Henry Langley and his ... -
Horace Kallen Confronts America: Jewish Identity in Discursive Formation
(2017-07-27)This study of the life and thought of American Jewish philosopher Horace Meyer Kallen (1882-1974) explores the discursive fields from which American Jewish modernity developed. Through a close analysis of Kallen's writings ... -
Housework and Social Subversion: Wages, Housework, and Feminist Activism in 1970s Italy and Canada
(2017-07-27)My dissertation, Housework and Social Subversion: Wages, Housework, and Feminist Activism in 1970s Italy and Canada, presents a history of the Wages for Housework movements in Italy and Canada (1972-1978), looking at the ... -
Messiah, Muselmann and the Return of Paul's Real: Evidence for a Trauma of Secularism
(2014-07-09)This project addresses the anomaly evident in the use of religious terms for secular projects. If secularism was a system that intended to free the state from religion and the subject from religious superstition, then why ... -
Of Field and Forest: Aesthetics and the Nonhuman on Hampstead Heath
(2016-11-25)Hampstead Heaths eight-hundred acres of field and forest were acquired for the public in 1871. It was the first metropolitan open space in London to be acquired as a result of decades of campaigning, and is therefore central ... -
On Counterinsurgency: Firepower, Biopower, and the Collateralization of Milliatry Violence
(2016-09-20)This dissertation investigates the most recent cycle of North Atlantic expeditionary warfare by addressing the resuscitation of counterinsurgency warfare with a specific focus on the war in Afghanistan from 2006 to 2014. ... -
Outside and Inside: Representations of Interracialism and American Identity in White Jazz Autobiography
(2015-01-26)This dissertation explores concepts of race, national identity, and gender formation in fifteen autobiographies published by white male American jazz musicians— that is, jazz autobiographies written by male subjects who ... -
Redefining Female Talent: Chinese Women Artists in the National and Global Art Worlds, 1900s - 1970s
(2016-11-25)This study examines the art practices of three generations of Chinese women who were active between the 1900s and the 1970s. Its conceptual focus is on the reassessment of female talent and virtue, a moralized dichotomy ... -
Savages, Saviours and the Power of Story: The Figure of the Northern Dog in Canadian Culture
(2015-12-16)This research was motivated by a recent pattern in animal welfare texts in Canada that portray northern dogs as “savage” trouble-makers, and indigenous people as backward barbarians incapable of caring for the animals that ... -
Sexuated Topology and the Suspension of Meaning: A Non-Hermeneutical Phenomenological Approach to Textual Analysis
(2014-07-28)This study assumes the subject's pursuit of meaning is generally incapacitating and should be suspended. It aims to demonstrate how such a suspension is theoretically accomplished by utilizing Lacan's formulae of sexuation ... -
Standing Tall, the Stiletto Heel as Material Memory: A Contemporary
(2016-11-25)Employing a material culture analysis, this dissertation functions as a general compendium on the stiletto heel, as it recounts the history of the stiletto from its introduction as a technological marvel in the post-WWII ... -
"Stones Can Make People Docile": Disciplinary School Spaces and Student Rebellions in Childrens and Young Adult School Stories
(2019-07-02)School Stories is a subgenre within childrens and young adult literature in which the school environment is the main and most pivotal site of action. Typically, student characters are socialized by their school experience ... -
Sympathy for the Orcs: Evil in Urban Fantasy
(2018-08-27)This dissertation argues that urban fantasyfantasy set in citieshas a more nuanced conception of evil than high fantasy, which favours pastoral settings, and which was heavily influenced by the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. ...