Recently Completed PhDs

Terzian, Sylvia, “Arab Pluralities and Transnationality: The ‘Crisis of Diasporic Consciousness’ in Arab American and Arab Canadian Fiction.”  Supervisor: Dr. Mariam Pirbhai.  Successfully defended: December 2012.

Jenny Wills, “Aporetic Origins: North American Narratives of Transnational, Transracial Asian Adoption.”  Supervisor: Dr. Eleanor Ty.  Successfully defended: August 2012.

Stefan Sereda, “Cinema in Scare Quotes: Postmodern Aesthetics and Economics in the American Art Cinema.”  Supervisor: Dr. Russell Kilbourn.  Successfully defended: January 2012.  Recipient of Gold Medal for Academic Excellence, Faculty of Arts, Spring 2012 Convocation.

Miriam Raethel, “Witnessing From a Distance: Postwar Literary Representations of the Holocaust.”  Supervisor: Dr. Lynn Shakinovsky.  Successfully defended: August 2010.

Lisa Funnell, “The Warrior Women of Transnational Cinema: Gender and Race in Hollywood and Hong Kong Action Films.”  Supervisor: Dr. Philippa Gates.  Successfully defended: April 2010.  Recipient of Gold Medal for Academic Excellence, Faculty of Arts, Spring 2010 Convocation.

Michael Ackerman, “Phantoms of Old Forms: The Gothic Mode in the Dramatic Verse of Tennyson and Browning.”  Supervisor: Dr. Michael Moore.  Successfully defended: August 2009.

Lisa Butler, “Mis-Education and the Crisis in Male Subjectivity: William Godwin’s Middle Novels, 1799-1817.”  Supervisor: Dr. Eleanor Ty.  Successfully defended: August 2008.