• “Through a glasse darkly”: secrecy and access to arcane knowledge in seventeenth-century England 

  Hunfeld, Christa (2018-10-01)

  In seventeenth-century England, pursuits of knowledge were shaped by two seemingly paradoxical, yet interwoven beliefs: a persistent belief in the devastating effects of the Fall on human reason, and a growing trust in ...
• An unsuccessful mission: the short-lived alliance of the Soviet Union with warlord Feng Yuxiang, 1925-1927 

  Petrov, Dmitry (2018-10-01)

  This Master’s thesis examines the reasons for the failure of the Soviet advisers’ mission in Chinese warlord Feng Yuxiang’s army in 1925-1927. The USSR had strategic interests in Northern China and needed an ally to help ...
• "Sandwiches and/or sushi?" : second generation Japanese Canadian women and The New Canadian, 1938-1949 

  Camelon, Stephanie Jean Marie (2018-10-01)

  This thesis examines the writings of second generation Japanese Canadian women in the newspaper, The New Canadian between 1938 and 1949. Nisei women lived in a dual world containing different messages of appropriate female ...
• Bridging the gap: a study of academic language-learning needs of Saudi international students 

  Alkutbi, Douaa (2018-10-01)

  Using quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, the current study examines Saudi students’ perspectives, coupled with EAL instructors’ views, regarding Saudi students’ English language-learning needs. Two data ...
• Creating the American carceral state: the evolution of liberal criminology 

  Williamson, Shaun (2018-09-28)

  This thesis explores mass incarceration in the United States as an outcome of the evolution of liberal penal theory over the last two centuries. The first chapter analyzes the work of the 18th century Italian legal theorist ...
• Of dogs and idiots: tropological confusion in twentieth-century US fiction 

  Oswald, David G. D. (2018-09-28)

  This dissertation examines dog and idiot tropes—and, specifically, the conflation thereof—in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury (1929), John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men (1937), and Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, ...
• Tempo modulations in English 

  Kirkham, Sandra Patricia (2018-09-14)

  The goal of synthetic speech is to provide speech that is both comprehensible and natural sounding. While synthetic speech is drawing nearer to its goal, it has not yet attained a truly natural quality. Naturalness can be ...
• "As the times want him to decide": the lives and times of Florence Maybrick, 1891-2015 

  Miller, Noah (2018-09-06)

  This thesis examines major publications produced between 1891-2015 that portray the trial of Florence Maybrick. Inspired by Paul Davis’ Lives and Times of Ebenezer Scrooge, it considers the various iterations of Florence’s ...
• The caravan of deplorables: perspectives on Romani Anglophobia in late modern Britain 

  Lidstone, Michael Trent (2018-09-04)

  Scholars researching Britain from the 1880s to the First World War have often failed to portray a diverse range of British attitudes towards the period’s state-sanctioned efforts to assimilate the Romani people. In most ...
• Not the hole story: exclusivity at the Colwood Golf and Country Club, 1913-1934 

  Bullman, Kalin (2018-08-31)

  The purpose of my study is to explore the early history of the Colwood Golf and Country Club as a way of understanding one aspect of settler colonialism – that is to study how certain tracts of Indigenous land were transformed ...
• Seduced and dying: the sympathetic trope of the fallen woman in early and mid-Victorian Britain, c. 1820-1870 

  Deacon, Deborah (2018-08-30)

  In early and mid-Victorian Britain, men and women from all classes demonstrated a strong fascination with, and sympathy for, seduced and dying women. Though such women were unchaste or “fallen” women, they did not excite ...
• "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 ...
• “Et nous aussi nous sommes Citoyennes”: perceptions of women’s political activity in the French Revolution, 1789-1793 

  Freeman-Orr, Chandler (2018-08-29)

  This thesis explores the multiple ways women’s capacity for political action was perceived, both by themselves as well as by others, in the early years of the French Revolution. By beginning with women’s journey to ...
• The rhetoric of wolves 

  Lukas, Michael (2018-08-29)

  This interdisciplinary dissertation, The Rhetoric of Wolves, attempts to answer a simple, yet broad question: What do we talk about when we talk about wolves? While even the “we” here is contentious, as there are many ...
• Performing the everyday life in ruined city: wife, mistress, and housemaid of a literary celebrity 

  Cheng, Xiaomeng (2018-08-29)

  This thesis presents a study of “performing the everyday life” in the writer Jia Pingwa’s well-known novel Ruined City (Feidu 废都). By adopting the sociologist Erving Goffman’s idea of dramaturgical interactions in The ...
• The classical reception of the hybrid minotaur 

  Lohrasbe, Devon (2018-08-29)

  This thesis offers an interpretation of the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur that accounts for its popularity in fifth century Athens. The myth of the Minotaur had particular political resonance in Classical Athens because ...
• “I know what I am and what I am not”: heterosexual male cross-dressing in postwar America, 1960-1990 

  Glover, Alexie Moira (2018-08-23)

  This thesis uncovers and historicizes an overlooked aspect of America’s transgender history. The heterosexual male cross-dressers, or transvestites, of mid-century America constituted a group of individuals that espoused ...
• Images, icons, and texts: illustrated English literary works from the Ruthwell Cross to the Ellesmere Chaucer 

  Hilmo, Maidie (2018-08-17)

  Illustrations accompanying medieval literary works have often been disparaged as “crude” or judged as inaccurate “translations” of the text. These determinations, based on modern expectations of what constitutes good “art,” ...
• Caging the seas: cetacean capture and display at Marineland of the Pacific, 1954-1967 

  Griffin, Isobel (2018-08-16)

  This thesis examines the early years of marine mammal captivity at Marineland of the Pacific and its impacts on the oceanarium industry, cetacean science, and public perceptions of whales. Opening in 1954, Marineland was ...
• A comparative study of the language content of employment-related units in government-funded language programs for newcomers in Canada and Australia 

  Zhang, Yiran (2018-08-10)

  In response to the scant studies comparing the language content of the employment-related units in Australia's Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) and Canada's Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) program, ...

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