UPCOMING DEFENCES
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Recent Defences
Kimberly O'Donnell, PhD Candidate
Narrative Syncope: Affect, Ethics, and Fainting Men in Late-Victorian Novels
Friday, December 11, 2020
Examining Committee:
Dr. Clint Burnham, Professor and Graduate Program Chair, Thesis Defence Chair
Dr. Carolyn Lesjak, Associate Professor and Department of English Chair
Dr. Margaret Linley, Associate Professor
Dr. Michael Everton, Associate Professor
Dr. Peter Dickinson, Professor, Department of the Contemporary Arts
Dr. Christopher Keep, Professor, Department of English and Writing Studies, Western University
Melissa McGregor, PhD Candidate
Arduous Business: Immaterial Labour in the Victorian Realist Novel
Friday, December 4, 2020
Examining Committee:
Dr. Michael Everton, Professor, Thesis Defence Chair
Dr. Carolyn Lesjak, Associate Professor and Department of English Chair
Dr. Margaret Linley, Associate Professor
Dr. Clint Burnham, Professor and Department of English Graduate Chair
Dr. Lara Campbell, Professor, Department of GSWS
Dr. Nathan Hensley, Associate Professor, Department of English, Georgetown University
Carolyne Clare, PhD Candidate
Repertoires for Supporting Sovereignty: The Protocols for Native American Archival Materials and Dance Information in Vancouver
Monday, July 27, 2020
Examining Committee:
Dr. Peter Dickinson, Professor, School for the Contemporary Arts (senior supervisor)
Dr. Lisa Nathan, Associate Professor, School of Information, UBC
Dr. Allana Lindgren, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre, University of Victoria
Dr. Dara Culhane, Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology
Dr. Spencer Lilley, Te Putahi a Toi, Associate Professor, School of Maori Knowlege, Massey University
Alix Shield, PhD Candidate
Kwaskastahsowin ("Put things to right"): Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Indigenous Women's Writing, Editing, and Publishing in Canada
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Examining Committee:
Dr. Linda M. Morra, Professor, Department of English, Bishop's University
Dr. June Schudeler, Assistant Professor, Departments of Indigenous Studies & GSWS
Dr. Sophie McCall, Professor, Department of English
Dr. Carole Gerson, Professor Emerita, Department of English
Dr. Deanna Reder, Associate Professor, Departments of Indigenous Studies & English
Kelsey Blair, PhD Candidate
Performance Studies, Sport, and Affect in the Twenty-First Century
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Examining Committee:
Dr. Clint Burnham, Chair
Dr. Peter Dickinson, Professor
Dr. Dara Culhane, Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology
Dr. Coleman Nye, Assistant Professor, Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
Dr. Ann Travers, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology
Dr. Susan Bennett, Professor, Department of English, University of Calgary
Jordan Abel, PhD Candidate
Nishga
Friday, March 8, 2019
Examining Committee:
Dr. Clint Burnham, Chair
Dr. Stephen Collis
Dr. Sophie McCall
Dr. Deanna Reder
Dr. David Chariandy
Dr. June Scudeler, Assistant Professor, First Nations Studies
Dr. Warren Cariou, Professor, Department of English, University of Manitoba
David Weston, PhD Candidate
Homo-Heroic Love: Male Friendship on the Restoration Stage
Friday, November 16, 2018
Examining Committee:
Dr. Clint Burnham, Chair
Dr. Diana Solomon
Dr. Betty Schellenberg
Dr. Peter Dickinson
Dr. Lara Campbell, Professor, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
Dr. Jean Marsden, Professor, Department of English, University of Connecticut
Kandice Sharren, PhD Candidate
Readers in the Margins: Texts, Paratexts, and Audiences in Romantic-era Fiction
Friday, October 19, 2018
Examining Committee:
Dr. Clint Burnham, Chair
Dr. Michelle Levy
Dr. Betty Schellenberg
Dr. Leith Davis
Dr. John Maxwell, Director and Associate Professor, Master of Publishing
Dr. Michael Gamer, Professor, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Natalie Knight, PhD Candidate
Dispossessed Indigeneity: Literary Excavations of Internalized Colonialism
Wednesday, August 1, 2018
Examining Committee:
Dr. Clint Burnham, Chair
Dr. Deanna Reder
Dr. Sophie McCall
Dr. David Chariandy
Dr. June Scudeler, Department of First Nations Studies
Dr. Warren Cariou, Department of English, University of Manitoba
Ryan Fitzpatrick, PhD Candidate
What is Here Now: Assembling Poetry in Canada After the Spatial Turn
Monday, June 11, 2018
Examining Committee:
Dr. Michelle Levy, Chair
Dr. Jeff Derksen
Dr. Stephen Collis
Dr. Christine Kim
Dr. Geoff Mann, Department of Geography
Dr. Christine Stewart, Department of English, University of Alberta
Nathan Szymanski, PhD Candidate
Emulous Fellowship and the Elizabethan Pastoral Eclogue
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Examining Committee:
Dr. Michelle Levy, Chair
Dr. Tiffany Werth, Senior Supervisor
Dr. Ronda Arab, Supervisor
Dr. Vin Nardizzi, Supervisor
Dr. John Craig, Internal/External Examiner
Dr. Stephen Guy-Bray, External Examiner