Recent Theses
MA Creative Writing | MA Academic | PhD
Recent MA Theses: Creative Writing
2012
Zachary Alapi (Prof. Jarman)
The Aspiring (Fiction)
Benjamin Anderson (Prof. Jarman)
Plague of Fleas (Fiction)
Oksana Berda (Prof. Leckie)
What the Light Did Now (Poetry)
Sarah Bernstein (Prof. Leckie)
We must all make do with what rags we find (Poetry)
Christina Cooke (Prof. Ball)
Reflecting Spectral (Fiction)
Kayla Geitzler (Prof. Leckie)
That Light Feeling Under Your Feet (Poetry)
Rob Jacobsen (Prof. Jarman)
The Philosopher King (Fiction)
Christopher (Kit) Jenkin (Prof. Jarman)
A Procession of Eyes: Seven Stories and a Novella (Fiction)
Claire Kelly (Anne Compton, HRA)
Taking the Same Route (Poetry)
Michael Milech (Prof. Falkenstein)
The Never-Again Club (Play)
Matthew Mott (Prof. David Creelman and Eden Robinson, HRA)
Finding Woods (Fiction)
Katherine Murray (Prof. Ball)
Shadow Self Portrait (Fiction)
Daniel Renton (Prof. Leckie)
Shucks (Poetry)
Chantelle Rideout (Prof. Leckie)
a harmony of spheres (Poetry)
Patricia Robinson (Prof. Leckie)
Of Proprioception (Poetry)
Celia Thompson (Prof. Jarman)
Sweet Beast (Fiction)
2011
Peter Forestell (Prof. Andrews)
Clock the Tea and Other Stories (Fiction)
Rebecca Geleyn (Prof. Leckie)
Anything Called Cinnabar (Poetry)
Sarah Khokhar (Prof. Jarman)
The Khalifa's Daughter (Fiction)
Allison LaSorda (Prof. Leckie)
Saints in the Opeongo (Poetry)
Zachary Wells (Prof. Leckie)
Sum (Poetry)
2010
Corinna Chong (Prof. Ball)
Belinda's Rings (Fiction)
Michael Doyle (Prof. Jarman)
Let Me Adore You (Fiction)
Benjamin Griffin (Prof. Leckie)
Partial Fog Lessening (Poetry)
Matthew Heiti (Prof. Falkenstein)
I Drag My Coffin Through the Lonesome North (Play)
Justin Joschko (Prof. Jarman)
Gorilla Girl (Fiction)
Ryan Marshall (Prof. Jarman)
Tottori (Fiction)
April Ripley (Prof. Leckie)
The Question of Skeleton (Poetry)
Jeremy Whiston (Profs. Snook and Jarman)
The Awful Things They Did to You (Fiction)
2009
Kathleen Brown (Prof. Falkenstein and Anne Simpson)
our mouths are filters: DOCUMENTING IN THE BRINK (Drama)
Carson Butts (Prof. Tryphonopoulos and Sharon McCartney)
Berlin Duration (Autobiographical Poetry)
Jennifer Houle (Prof. Leckie)
Heavy Metals (Poetry)
Patrick Leech (Prof. Moore)
The Marginaliad (Fiction)
Rod Moody-Corbett (Prof. Jarman)
Arthur's Qualities (Fiction)
Diane Reid (Prof. Tryphonopoulos)
Tea Party (Poetry)
Emily Ruskovich (Prof. Ball)
Mock Orange (Fiction)
Stephanie Yorke (Profs. Leckie & McKay)
The Truroaid (Poetry)
2008
Karen Hann (Prof. Jarman)
Nobody's Children (Fiction)
Daniel Jacobs (Prof. Jarman)
Jerusalem Engine (Fiction)
Matthew Leslie (Prof. Jarman)
A Tale of Two Stories (Fiction)
Laura Pearson (Prof. Leckie)
Sardines on Toast (Poetry)
Gregory Shupak (Profs. Ball & Jarman)
Killing Time (Fiction)
Kari Trogen (Prof. Falkenstein)
MAUD (Drama)
2007
Susan Bowers (Profs. Compton & Moore)
No Choice in What Remains (Poetry)
Kamia Creelman (Prof. Austin)
Un-Rung: A Long Short Story (Novella)
Catherine Greenwood (Profs. Austin & Rimmer)
Matilda Dyck; or, The Monk: A Canadian Gothic
Debra Franke (Prof. Leckie)
Where the Back Roads Take You (Poetry)
Michael Lockett (Profs. Ball & Leckie)
Whittling the Cumbersome (Multi-Genre - Creative)
Kirstie McCallum (Prof. Leckie)
Osmosis (Poetry)
Vanessa Moeller (Prof. Leckie)
Sane Love's Realm (Poetry)
Brandon Moores (Profs. Klinck & Tryphonopoulos)
Eighty Eight Epigrams (Poetry)
Emilia Nielsen (Anne Simpson & Prof. Tryphonopoulos)
Surge (Poetry)
Paula Thomas (Prof. Falkenstein)
Alabaster Baby (Drama)
2006
Maureen Bilerman (Prof. Jarman)
Catch & Release (Short Fiction)
Kristina Bresnen (Prof. Leckie)
Pascal's Fire (Poetry)
Stewart Cole (Prof Leckie)
Questions in Bed (Poetry)
Jill Connell (Prof. Falkenstein)
The Shark Tumour Collection (Drama)
Rebecca Fredrickson (Prof. Jarman)
Theatre in E Minor (Short Fiction)
Joel Katelnikoff (Prof. Jarman)
Hijinx Ensue (Short Fiction)
David O'Hara (Prof. Ball)
Here be Monsters (Novel)
Erin Knight (Prof. Leckie)
The Sweet Fuels (Poetry)
James Langer (Prof. Leckie)
Gun Dogs (Poetry)
Abby Irit Miller (Prof.Andrews)
Unbinding Isaac: A Work of Near Fiction (Fiction)
2005
Erin Bryce (Prof. Jarman)
Great Fish Stories (Short Fiction)
Andrea Doukas (Prof. Jarman)
Waiting for Monsoon (Creative Non Fiction)
Naomi Lewis (Prof. Ball)
Cricket in a Fist: A Novel in Seven Stories (Short Fiction)
Anthony Robinson-Smith (Prof. Jarman)
"Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time" (Creative Nonfiction)
Katherine Wrobel (Prof. Leckie)
The Jade Waters of the Delta (Poetry)
Recent MA Theses: Academic
2012
Qian Hu (Prof. Leckie and Prof. Snook)
Exorcizing through Ghosts: Haunting Representations in Chinese-Canadian Literature
2011
Sara Dunton (Prof. Tryphonopoulos)
New Explorations of Mina Loy's Ekphrastic Poetry
2010
Coleena Fanjoy (Prof. Maier)
Eat Me, Drink Me: Examining the Ways that Twentieth-Century Heroines Outgrow the Prescribed Feminine Spaces of Victorian Fantasy Literature for Children
James London (Prof. Austin)
Willing to Map the Ineffable in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas
2009
Richard Cole (Prof. Leckie)
A Poet in Art's Terms: Reframing John Ashbery's "Poem-Paintings"
Kevin Goodwin (Prof. Snook)
Milton's Married Man: Masculinity and the Problem of Errant Duty in MIlton's Poetry
Dana Schwab (Prof. Andrews)
Troublesome Bodies and Lonely Voices: The Embodied Woman in Contemporary Canadian Short Fiction in English
2008
Andrea Day (Profs. Ball and Rimmer)
From Cinderella to Bluebeard's Last Wife: Feminist Fairy Tales in 19th- and 20th-Century Literature
Jon (Jack) Watson (Prof. Andrews)
The Occult Liturgy of Leonard Cohen
2007
Heidi Butler (Prof. Creelman)
Wayne Johnston's Historical Narratives: Imperial Tensions and Newfoundland’s Inheritance
Jennifer English (Prof. Maier)
Renegotiating the Sexual Contract: Fictions of Subversive Restraint 1810-1893
Cara Fabre (Prof. Andrews)
From Cultural Transformation to Systemic Revolution: Poetic Resistance in Dionne Brand's Three Long Poems
Linnet Humble (Prof. Leckie)
Self-Reflexivity in Contemporary Canadian Poetry
Jennifer Guenther (Prof. Rimmer)
A Woman's Realm: Blurred Boundaries in Elizabeth Gaskell's Fiction
Elizabeth Harding (Prof. Austin)
Make Yourself a(t) Home: Gender, Place and Identity in the Poetry of Grace Nichols
Anne Marie Ryan (Prof. Maier)
Marginalia: Jane Austen's Epistolary Achievement in Three Early Novels
2006
Jason Christopher Cawley (Prof. Ball)
Lost in Translation: Culture, Nation and the Individual in Post-Colonial Theory
Sarah Elizabeth Fanning (Prof. Maier)
Gendered Space and Feminist Ideology: Pride and Prejudice and its Two BBC Adaptations
Michael McCaustlin (Prof. Rimmer)
Imperialism and Race in the Nineteenth-Century Gothic Novel
Crystal Taylor (Prof. Cockburn)
Illusions of Permanence: Passing Time and Changing Perceptions of Five of Anne Tyler's Novels
2005
Kitty Elton Beal (Prof. Rimmer)
Anne Bronte: The Buried Sister
Jennifer Hedd (Prof. Ball)
Beyond the Callaloo and Tossed Salad Metaphors: Political Nationalist Discourses of Decolonizing Trinidad in V.S. Naipaul's The Mystic Masseur and A House for Mister Biswas
Timothy McIntyre (Prof. Ball)
The Confessions of J.M. Coetzee: Truth and Absolution in Boyhood, Youth and Disgrace
Patrick Murphy (Prof. Creelman)
There is Something about the Land:An Ecocritical Approach to the Works of David Adams Richards
Megan Woodworth (Prof. Rimmer)
'A Maneuvering Business': Jane Austen and the Politics of Marriage
Recent PhD Theses
2013
Nicola Faieta (Prof. Andrews)
The Past is Prologue: "Conventional" Canadian Historical Novels in the Twenty-First Century
2012
Adam Crowley (Profs. Ball and Tryphonopoulos)
Speaking Out of Turn: Paraleptical Paralipsis and the Millennial Bildungsroman
2011
Heidi Butler (Prof. Andrews)
Tits to the Wind: Adolescent Femininities in Contemporary Atlantic Canadian Women's Novels
Trevor Sawler (Prof. Tryphonopoulos)
Hypertexting High Modernism: Ezra Pound's Pisan Cantos as Hypertext
Alison Toron (Prof. Andrews)
Funny Feminism: Humour in Canadian Women's Fiction
Erin Whitmore (Prof. Creelman and Prof. Davies)
Genre, Domesticity, and Female Agency in Three Rural Novels by Catharine Parr Traill, Margaret Murray Robertson, and Lucy Maud Montgomery
Jason Woodman Simmonds (Prof. Andrews and Prof. Martin)
Aboriginal Shakespeares as Communal Self-Fashioning
2010
Brenna Clarke Gray (Prof. Andrews)
Irony, Fear, Shopping, and Art: Douglas Coupland and the Re-Imagining of Post-9/11 North America
Khurram Khurshid (Prof. Ball)
Discourse of Difference: Cultural Resistance, Identity Politics, and Feminist Nationalism in Indo-Muslim Fiction
Sarah Neville (Prof. Tryphonopoulos and Prof. Gants)
Early English Herbals and the Pragmatics of Print
Robin Sutherland (Prof. Robbins)
Peace, Order, and "Good Housekeeping": Feminine Authority and Influence in Lady Agnes Macdonald's Canada
2009
Vicky Simpson (Prof. Rimmer)
Royally Fictional Families: From Queen Victoria to the Sensation Writers
2008
Matthew Robinson (Prof. Tryphonopoulos)
"The instrument through which the inner soul or the occult can also filter": H.D.'s Majic Ring as occult journal and as companion piece to Trilogy
2007
Rodger Ian Wilkie (Prof. Klinck)
The Heron on the Edge: Constructions of Heroism in Beowulf in the Context of Ancient and Medieval Epic
2006
Jessie Sagawa (Prof. Robbins)
Daughters of Makewana: A Critical and Contextual Study of Women in Selected Malawian Novels in English
The Past is Prologue: "Conventional" Candadian Historical Novels in the Twenty-First Century
