• A promise kept: the mystical reach through loss 

  Collins, Jody (2019-10-04)

  The meaning of loss is love. I know this through attention to experience. Whether loss or love is experienced in abundance or in absence, the meaning is mystical with an opening of body, mind, heart and soul to spirit. And ...
• A bridge to nowhere: British Columbia’s capitalist nature and the Carmanah Walbran War in the Woods (1988-1994) 

  Davey, James (2019-10-03)

  From 1988 to 1994, the Carmanah and Walbran valleys on southern Vancouver Island emerged from obscurity to inspire international newspaper headlines, ecotage, and election platforms, and figure in British Columbia’s ...
• An investigation of pedagogical approaches and methods used in a French university French-as-a-foreign-language program: teacher and student perspectives 

  Blackstone, Pam (2019-10-01)

  This qualitative study has investigated a month-long French-as-a-foreign-language summer program. Its goal was to compare teacher (n=4) and student (n=6) perspectives regarding learning objectives, challenges, and preferred ...
• Les usages et leurs propriétés distinctives de whatever comme marqueur d’approximation en chiac 

  Jackman, Francesca (2019-09-27)

  This study examines the functions of the borrowed discourse marker (DM) whatever in Chiac, an Acadian French dialect spoken in the southeastern region of New Brunswick (Canada). Analyzing data from two relatively homogenous ...
• On the Origin and Provenance of Victoria, McPherson Library, Doc.Brown.4: Sir Thomas Mowbray’s Care of Newnham Priory* 

  Lahey, Stephanie J. (Florilegium, 2016)

  Although Sir Thomas Mowbray’s 1391 confirmation and continuation of earlier grants and donations to the Augustinian Priory of Newnham, Bedfordshire, was attested via Sir William Dugdale’s transcription and an incomplete ...
• Medieval Manuscripts and Fragments at the University of Victoria: An Early Grant of Hubert de Burgh, Constantine the African’s Translation of Isaac Israeli, and a Mendicant Breviary between Italy and Croatia 

  Boyarin, Adrienne Williams; Eagleheart, Ravana; Kendrick, James; Ness, Lynnea; Peters, Merridy (Florilegium, 2016)

  This essay shares results of an archives-based pedagogical project at the University of Victoria. A brief introduction outlines the University's medieval and early modern holdings and recent instructor-student collaborations; ...
• A brief history of 19th–20th century genocidal Indian education in British Columbia and oral history of Gitxsan resistance and resurgence 

  Mowatt, Gina (2019-09-04)

  Indian Education, including but not limited to Indian Residential Schools and Indian Day schools, are one part of an ongoing system of elimination of Indigenous people in Canada. I argue that Indian Education in 19th – ...
• The politics & poetics of Gulliver’s travel writing 

  Cox, Philip (2019-09-03)

  Working at the intersection of narrative studies and political theory, this thesis performs an original critical intervention in Gulliver’s Travels studies to establish the work as an intertextual response to the hegemonic ...
• Climate change, the ruined island, British metamodernism 

  Arvay, Emily (2019-09-03)

  This dissertation on “Climate Change, the Ruined Island, and British Metamodernism” proceeds from the premise that a perspectival shift occurred in the early 2000s that altered the tenor of British climate fiction published ...
• ‘Claiming refuge’: a settler’s unsettling history of Hot Springs Cove 

  Lynch, David (2019-09-03)

  This thesis surveys the long human history of Hot Springs Cove, British Columbia, a small inlet on the west coast of Vancouver Island (formerly known as Refuge Cove). The study spans the period from the arrival of the ...
• “You are a political soldier” : the people’s war in N’wamitwa 1989-1994 

  Lundeberg, Faelan (2019-08-30)

  In the waning days of apartheid, an operative of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of South Africa’s most powerful dissident organization the African National Congress, returned to his home community of N’wamitwa after ...
• Masks of hegemony: populism, neoliberalism, and welfare narratives in British Columbia, 1975-2004 

  Koehn, Drew (2019-08-29)

  For all but thirteen years of the decades from 1952 to 2017, British Columbia was electorally dominated by the Social Credit Party and its ideological successor, the BC Liberal Party. These organizations represented ...
• The efficacy of lexical stress diacritics in the English comprehensibility and accentedness of Korean speakers 

  Kim, Keun (2019-08-20)

  In the field of second language (L2) pronunciation research and teaching, relatively less research has been conducted on the efficacy of suprasegmental features (e.g., stress and intonation) than that of segmentals (individual ...
• Popular culture and the political mobilization of Guangdong elites in modern China and the Chinese diaspora, 1839-1911 

  Huang, Hairong (2019-08-20)

  From 1839 to 1911, Guangdong elites, including Qing officials in the province, local gentry, native intellectuals, and so on, made full use of popular culture for political mobilization of the populace. This study examines ...
• Student engagement with institutional governance in contemporary Chinese universities: an internationalization process 

  Cheng, Siyi (2019-08-13)

  In recent decades, China has stood out for its active social experiment with its state-market relations and educational reforms to build internationally competitive universities. Students, as recipients of and participants ...
• Krishnamurti and the dance of dialogue: instigating insight in higher education 

  Flexer, Jerry (2019-08-01)

  This study examines the dialogic approach of the Indian-born educational philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986), who had developed his own unique approach to dialogue with small groups. The research considered two ...
• Peer Editing in French Using Digital Tools: A Micro-Analysis of Learner-Computer Interactions 

  Caws, Catherine; Léger, Catherine; Perry, Bernadette (Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2017)

  This paper describes a case study focused on the ways in which university-level learners of French as a second language collaborate during peer-editing sessions assisted by digital tools. The purpose of the study is to ...
• A city goes to war: Victoria in the Great War 1914-1918 

  Kempling, James S. (2019-07-23)

  This dissertation is a combined digital history-narrative history project. It takes advantage of newly digitized historical newspapers and soldier files to explore how the people of Victoria B.C. Canada, over 8000 kilometers ...
• Goyatıı̀ K’aàt’ıı̀ Ats’edee, K’aàt’ıı̀ Adets’edee: Ho! 

  Erasmus, Margaret Therese (2019-05-06)

  This study investigates key components for effective Indigenous adult language learning and resulting health and wellness benefits following a Dene research paradigm with Grounded Theory applications. Eight colleagues in ...
• 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 ...

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