Graduate Students
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Soroor Aghaei Afshar |
Thesis topic: Latin American Cinema |
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Jordan Ashworson (Ashworth) |
Thesis title: On the Nature of Doing Glitches in Speedrunning |
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Hend Atallah |
Thesis title: Palestinians in Diaspora & Homeland Literature How do Palestinians from different generations engage with their homeland literature? Do they read it in Arabic? If they belong to a younger generation whose fluency in Arabic is struggling, do they read homeland literature through English translation? How do these translation help (re)shape cultural and linguistic identity? What is preserved and what is lost through English translations of Palestinian homeland literature? |
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Reilly Bohan |
Thesis title: Disidentification and the Politics of Affect: Analyzing Lesbian Counterpublics in Dykes to Watch Out For My research intersects with lesbian studies, affect theory, and archival research as I employ one of Alison Bechdel’s comics to analyze emotional and historical memory. By examining Dykes to Watch Out For (1983–2008) as a key cultural artifact documenting lesbian life and activism in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, I aim to display how this comic is one of the earliest forms of lesbian representation in popular culture. As a form of artivism, Bechdel’s Dykes is a resource of sociopolitical, cultural, and community tools for generations of lesbians. |
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Mariia Burtseva |
Thesis title: LGBTQI+ People from Ukraine in Canada from 1991 to nowadays The main research interests include the Canadian Studies, Immigration Studies, LGBTQI+, Oral History, Contemporary Myths in History and Mass Media. |
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Maryna Chernyavska |
Thesis title: Unorthodox archiving in the archival multiverse |
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Derya Cinar |
Thesis title: Too Crowded Here: Humanimal Bodies in Flux Posthumanist and Affect Theories in Contemporary Comperative Literatures regarding onscreen and in-fiction metaphorpic bodies. |
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Qian Feng |
Travel writing |
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Amir Firuzkohi |
Thesis Topic: My research interests are multifaceted and span a range of disciplines, including sociology, linguistics, and education. Central to my research is an interest in understanding the complexities of human behavior, particularly as it relates to linguistic, ,social, and cultural factors. I am particularly interested in exploring issues related to language use and language attitudes, and how these impact social dynamics, identity formation, and education. My research is driven by a desire to uncover insights into the intricate relationships between language, culture, and society, with the ultimate goal of improving our understanding of the world we live in and the people who inhabit it.
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Ana Juana (Anneka) Vicente Foster |
Thesis topic: Literary translation Translation and interpretation (Spanish, English and French), general and applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, language teaching Publication: Vicente Foster, Ana Juana. “Interpreting in conflict zones: do interpreters need to be military trained.” Interpreting in a Changing World: New Scenarios, Technologies, Training Challenges and Vulnerable Groups, edited by Encarnación Postigo Pinazo, Peter Lang, 2020. |
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Steven Gillis |
Thesis topic: Steven's current research interests include speaker identities, language planning, and education planning in terms of second language acquisition, with a particular emphasis on the role that this planning plays in fostering student and teacher motivation throughout the language learning process.
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Kenzie Gordon |
Thesis title: Press ‘X’ to Crush the Patriarchy: Video Games as Sites for Sexual Violence Prevention Gender-based violence in video games; intersectional feminist video game analysis; interventionist game design; equity and representation in the game industry; police abolition and abolitionist digital archives; digital humanities |
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Wangtaolue Guo |
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Wanyixiong Hua |
Thesis title: The Decline of the Nation-State |
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Hongyang Ji |
Thesis topic: Translation and ecology |
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Evgeny Kuznetsov |
Thesis title: Interesections of ADHD and games production culture I’m interested in ADHD as a cultural phenomenon, and as a condition viewed through the lenses of critical disability and neurodiversity studies. I’m especially intrigued by the intersections of ADHD and media and technology. What is ADHD media? How is it co-produced with and through community culture? What are the experiences of media producers with ADHD? How are views on ADHD reshaped and reformulated through media representations? |
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Lisa Lawrence |
Thesis topic: My area of research involves topics around post-1950 Italy, as well as second-language pedagogy. |
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Rou Li |
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Wenzhu Li |
Thesis Topic: Modern and contemporary Chinese literature and media culture; critical theory of techno-human hybridity; abolitionist and transformative studies; contemporary Chinese poetry and poetics; women’s poetry and feminism |
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Kai Lin |
Thesis topic: Russian and Translation Studies |
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Sean Lis |
Thesis topic: Information Warfare My research exists at the intersection of new technologies (particularly AI) and culture, both material and digital. From the ways communications technologies have revolutionized diaspora relations and preserved old country traditions, to the ways that social medias can be used as tools of hybrid warfare. |
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Bingli Liu |
Thesis Topic: Ancient Chinese, Latin American literature and art; science fiction; fantasy; comparative literature |
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Ana Magalhaes |
Thesis title: Erotic cinema and pornochanchada, the leading vehicles of formative discourses in authoritarian Brazil (1964-1985) My research delves into how popular erotic cinema served as the primary vehicle for disseminating and structuring narratives of the different phases of the military period. This includes examining the discourse of national affirmation and integration promoted by the regime, the controversies surrounding the emergence of the "new” modern woman, the specificities of the subject's experience in times of hyper-surveillance and trivialized violence, and the portrayal of everyday life amidst an economic crisis and an uncertain future. |
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Asma M'Barek |
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Peter Morley |
Thesis title: Move Faster and Break Everything: A Network Genealogy of Accelerationism and the Dark Enlightenment My doctoral research concerns the offline and online development of the post-fascist political movement known as neoreactionism (NRx), its position within the Dark Enlightenment pseudophilosophical milieu, and its relationship with accelerationism, occultism, conspiracy theories, and post-ironic internet subcultures. My research also investigates neoreactionism’s disproportionate antidemocratic influence on the broader American political landscape through wealthy, well-connected adherents and sympathizers in the technology, finance, and political communications sectors. |
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Adamma Nnamele |
Thesis topic: Plurilingualism and Identity |
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Anna Olenenko |
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Ali Rajabi Esterabadi |
Thesis topic: Linguistic Imperialism, Neocolonialism, Indigenous Communities, Immigrant Narratives My research focuses on Canada’s positioning as a multicultural and multilingual nation, shaped by initiatives such as the Numbered Treaties and the Canadian Multiculturalism Act, which helped establish Canada as a global destination for immigrants. While these policies encourage diversity and growth, the dominance of English continues to marginalize Indigenous languages and cultures, creating tensions within Canada’s multicultural identity. Despite programs like Supporting Indigenous Language Revitalization, linguistic inequities persist. My work therefore investigates the dynamics of linguistic imperialism and neocolonialism in Canada, with particular attention to their impact on both Indigenous communities and immigrant experiences.
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Haining Ren |
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Saman Rezaei |
Thesis title: Ontological Semiosis of Particles of Light in Suhrawardi's Ishraqi Philosophy |
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Kylee Schmitt |
Research topic: Womens Mental Health and Illness in Old Norse Society, specifically in the Icelandic Family Sagas |
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Jianru Song |
Thesis topic: Early Chinese Immigrants; Chinese Canadian Literature; diaspora My research centers on the representation of Chinese workers in the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway as depicted in Chinese Canadian literary works. I examine texts by both Canadian-born and immigrant writers, with particular attention to how their portrayals engage with questions of memory, identity, and cultural belonging. |
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Meiling Xiao |
Thesis title: Being Together Apart: The Poetics of Autonomy in Contemporary Chinese Poetry/field of study: aesthetics, global modernism, modern Chinese poetry, translation studies Beleaguered yet inspired by the precarious status of today's humanities disciplines, I am interested in how our poetic predecessors in mid-1980s China—no less disarmed by the crisis of legitimacy unleashed by the market economy and the rise of new media forms—maintained their aesthetic autonomy amid various sources of social pressure. |
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Dmytro Yesypenko |
Thesis title: "Neverending Epidemics” in Ukrainian and Polish Literatures, 1820s–1900s Dmytro's interests include Ukrainian historical and literary process of the 19th–early 20th centuries, Slavic studies and medical humanities. He co-authored “Lena and Thomas Gushul: Life in Front and behind the Camera" (jointly with Mariya Mayerchyk and Jelena Pogosjan; Edmonton: 2022–2023) and edited “Borys Hrinchenko: Povisti” (Kyiv: Krytyka, 2020), “Cossacks in Jamaica, Ukraine at the Antipodes: Essays in Honor of Marko Pavlyshyn” (jointly with Alessandro Achilli and Serhy Yekelchyk; Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2020) and “Oksana Kowacka. Ukrains'ka postkolonialnist' u tekstakh i kontekstakh” (jointly with Karol Kowacki; Brusturiv: Discursus, 2022).
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