• The Cultural Politics in East Germany and China: Literature and Art (1949-1979) 

  Ge, Liping (2022-12-16)

  East Germany and China, two modern socialist countries were established in 1949 during the Cold War era. The developments of socialism in these two countries were different: the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was ...
• Heavenly fighters for Ukrainian civil society: the cultivation of democratic culture through the memorialization of the Revolution of Dignity 

  Murray, Emma (2022-02-07)

  The 2013–2014 Revolution of Dignity in the capital city of Kyiv was an overwhelming popular demonstration of the Ukrainian public’s desire for a western-oriented, democratic, and European future for Ukraine and its rejection ...
• Creating a “National” Church: The De-Judaization of Protestantism and the Holocaust 

  McClenagan, Elizabeth (2021-08-20)

  While the majority of German Protestant churches were silent in response to the persecution of the Jews in Nazi Germany, the Deutsche Christen or German Christian movement enthusiastically supported the Nazi regime’s goals ...
• The sublated style of a cinema in transition: Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, and Oleksandr Dovzhenko from the 1920s - 1930s 

  Bancroft, Alan (2021-07-06)

  This Master’s thesis examines the period of transition (1928-1935) in Soviet cinema when the avant-garde directors Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, and Oleksandr Dovzhenko, among others, began to make films under the ...
• Spirituality and German Romanticism: the influence of Jakob Böhme on Novalis and Caspar David Friedrich 

  Busch, Mikhail (2020-05-21)

  This Master’s thesis shall attempt to reconcile the notion of the spiritual with that of the aesthetic by focusing on the influence of 16th century German mystic Jakob Böhme, with the 19th century cultural movement of ...
• New men for a new world: reconstituted masculinities in Jewish-Russian literature (1903 – 1925) 

  Calof, Ethan (2019-05-01)

  This Master’s thesis explores Jewish masculinity and identity within early twentieth-century literature (1903-1925), using texts written by Jewish authors in late imperial Russia and the early Soviet Union. This was a ...
• "Jetzt kann ich diesem nur sagen, daβ ich schweige": Über die dramatische Gestaltung des Schweigens in Karl Kraus' Drama Die letzten Tage der Menschheit 

  Flicker, André (2018-08-30)

  English: In this thesis I examine the concept of satirical silence as the compositional principle of Karl Kraus’s drama Die letzten Tage der Menschheit to demonstrate the ways in which the features of modern satire introduce ...
• Storytelling tricksters: a reader’s coming-of-age in young adult fantasy fiction in Germany 

  Kim, Chorong (2018-06-13)

  In this thesis, I examine three works of modern German fantasy fiction for young adults, their common grounding in the Romantic aesthetic framework and in particular the Romantic notion of creativity, and the implication ...
• Corporeal canvas: art, protest, and power in contemporary Russia 

  Ehle, Kate (2018-01-02)

  This thesis examines the recent emergence of corporeal protest art in Russia. Through analyses of cultural, social, and economic shifts in the post-Soviet Era, I observe how this corporeal turn reflects a significant ...
• Beyond the memory: the era of witnessing – analyzing processes of knowledge production and memorialization of the Holocaust through the concepts of translocal assemblage and witness creation 

  Gerber, Myriam Bettina (2016-05-09)

  This paper considers the symbiotic relationship between iconic visual representations of the Holocaust – specifically film and Holocaust sites – and processes of Holocaust memorialization. In conjunction, specific sites ...
• Re-remembering Porraimos: memories of the Roma Holocaust in post-socialist Ukraine and Russia 

  Konstantinov, Maria (2015-06-22)

  This thesis explores the ways in which the Holocaust experiences and memories of Roma communities in post-Socialist Ukraine and Russia have been both remembered and forgotten. In these nations, the Porraimos, meaning the ...
• Gezi Spirit on Russian Streets?: The Emergence and Potential of Russia’s Contemporary Left 

  Berg, Albrecht (2014-09-08)

  Many considered the end of Soviet Communism as a sign that politics, and Left politics in particular, had been transcended in Russia and the world. Yet recent events, and this author’s own experience, contradict this vision. ...
• Found in translation: an ongoing dialogue between theory and practice 

  Kell, Zola (2014-09-03)

  In this thesis I outline my theory of translation as an interpretive tool. I undertake an analysis of the concepts of heteroglossia, hybridity, and positionality, as conceived of by Mikhail Bakhtin, Homi K. Bhabha, and ...
• From the Lancet to the Page: An Analysis of Bloodletting as a Metaphor For Bearing Witness and Its Potentially Deadly Consequences 

  Severyn, Ryan J. (2014-08-29)

  By investigating the metaphorical connection between bloodletting and the act of writing and drawing, this thesis examines the effects and potential dangers of bearing witness and recording witness testimonials as it is ...
• Uncanny Reminders: The 'Nazi' in Popular Culture 

  Tobler, Tamara Lynn (2014-08-15)

  The ubiquity of the ‘Nazi’ – the fictional Doppelgänger of the historical Nazi – in the various media of popular culture is both disturbing and fascinating. There is an important relationship between the ‘Nazi’ and its ...
• The Aesthetics and Ethics of Refraction: Narrative Structure, Imagery, and Temporality in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz 

  Michaud, Jason (2014-08-05)

  The purpose of this thesis is to examine the aesthetic structure and components of W.G. Sebald’s novel Austerlitz and to show their reciprocal relationship to ethical forms of remembrance for the present and the future. ...
• Sounding Through Silence: Inter-Generational Voicings in Memoir, Memory, and Postmodernity 

  Bhandar, Veronica Maria Delphine (2014-04-07)

  This thesis brings together two disciplines—creative non-fiction memoir and literary/historical critique—that seek to open avenues of discourse with regard to the legacy of the Second World War and the Holocaust for ...
• "Hitler is a Bully": Middle School Students' Perspectives on Holocaust Education in Greater Victoria, British Columbia 

  Wood, Natasha (2013-09-19)

  This study investigates middle school students’ interest in learning about the Holocaust, which methods are the most effective at teaching the Holocaust and how the testimony of Holocaust survivors can be retold to the ...
• That Poor Little Thing: The Emotive Meanings of Diminutives in Polish and Russian Translations of Alice in Wonderland 

  Lockyer, Dorothy (2013-04-29)

  The emotive connotations of diminutives in English are a source of controversy among scholars, while the Slavic languages of Polish and Russian are considered ‘diminutive-rich’ with diminutives that convey diverse nuances. ...
• Tales of desire and destruction: the natural vampire in Ludwig Tieck's "Der Runenberg" and Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's "Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grauens" 

  Peinhopf, Irene (2013-01-17)

  Since its entry into the literary field in the late eighteenth century, the vampire has seen many permutations, ranging from the truly monstrous to the present-day seductive stranger. The creature’s mutability stems from ...

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