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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, ... -
All of My People's Bones Are Here: Talking to the Dead as Poeisis for Afro-Indigenous Futurities
(2022-08-08)How do we read into the absences in which we are transfigured? This dissertation critiques and moves away from academic writing as restrictive, and stifling of creativity, appreciating dreaming and visioning as valid ... -
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 ... -
At Play in the Fields of Pattern: Theorizing Pattern Thinking in a Museum of Islamic Art
(2020-05-11)This dissertation examines the interaction between a museum-going subject and a patterned museum object from two perspectives: scholarly writing about pattern and the experiences of visitors to the Aga Khan Museum in ... -
Between Ashkenaz and Sepharad, Judaism and Christianity: Asher ben Jehiel as a Liminal Figure in the High Middle Ages
(2020-11-13)The central figure of this dissertation, Rabbi Asher ben Jehiel (Rosh, c.1250-1327), is explored as a liminal figure of the Middle Ages, in a variety of ways. Using the scholarship of Homi Bhabha on the topic of cultural ... -
Black Nerds Pleasure Reading Choices: Race, Representation and Prosocial Skills
(2022-08-08)Not much is known about what African Canadian Black youth read for pleasure. The subject of this study is a group of young people who belong to the Black nerd subculture (aka Blerds) of urban Toronto. The participants are ... -
Canada's (Post) "New Age" Spiritual Centers and the Impact of the Internet in the Context of Digital Religion
(2020-05-11)As a phenomenon that has had overwhelming social, cultural and political influence, the internet has become so embedded in our lives that it is difficult to imagine how we communicated or accessed information before its ... -
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 ... -
Fugitive Phrases: Arcade Fire, Music, and the Amorous Subject
(2021-03-08)This dissertation asserts that passionate love is not a feeling, but a process of acculturation to a complete system of information. Niklas Luhmanns work on love as a system of communication is put in dialogue with the ... -
"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 ... -
Glamour in the Good: Exhibiting Glamour's Expression in Toronto's Urban Imaginary
(2021-03-08)This dissertation examines the beguiling but illusory concept of glamour as a historical and aesthetic component of Torontos urban imaginary. In the years since William Howland, Torontos 25th mayor from 1886-87, coined the ... -
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 ... -
Incorporating Children's Picturebooks on Mindfulness in Bibliotherapy
(2022-03-03)Abstract Picturebooks are powerful forms of stories because the illustrations work in concert with text. In this dissertation, I explore how picturebooks are used in bibliotherapy to enhance and teach the concepts of ... -
Justice Doers: The Vigilante as a Mythic Figure and its Role in Creating a More Violent Culture in America
(2021-07-06)This dissertation builds off the work of Richard Slotkin in examining the relationship between myth-making and violence in American culture. The specific myth this dissertation focuses on is the myth of the vigilante hero ... -
Locating the Indian Gendered Subaltern on Digital Platforms: Digital Activism in #section377 and #metooindia
(2022-08-08)This work examines the relationship between technology and activism in India, and the role that digital infrastructures play in the development of gendered digital protest. Through a combination of textual discourse and ...