Graduate Students
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RESEARCH AREA |
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Jordan Ashworson (Ashworth) |
Thesis topic/title: On the Nature of Doing Glitches in Speedrunning |
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Tianyu Bi |
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Malou Brouwer |
Thesis topic/title: A Decolonial Poetics of Language: Indigenous Women’s Poetry at the Crossroads of Languages Research link |
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Maryna Chernyavska |
Thesis topic/title: Unorthodox archiving in the archival multiverse |
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Derya Cinar |
Thesis topic/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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Richard Feddersen |
Thesis topic/title: Being German vs. doing German: How pre-sojourn learners of German in Jordan construct and subvert ethnic identity through knowledge displays |
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Qian Feng |
Travel writing |
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Amir Firuzkohi |
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/title: 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 |
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Kenzie Gordon |
Thesis topic/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 topic/title: The Decline of the Nation-State |
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Hongyang Ji |
Ecology and translation, translation theory |
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Victoria Kostyniuk |
Thesis topic/title: Ukrainian-Canadian Culture |
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Evgeny Kuznetsov |
Thesis topic/title: Intersections 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 |
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 |
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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Bingli Liu |
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Ana Magalhaes |
Thesis title/topic: Eroticism in Brazilian Cinema (1964-1985) My research focuses on Brazilian cinema produced during the military dictatorship (1964-1985) and in particular how the form relates to the representation of sexuality, desire, and gender issues. I have presented several times on Brazilian sexploitation and am currently working on an article that explores the marginal filmic production from Boca do Lixo. |
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Asma M'Barek |
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Sofia Monzon |
Thesis topic/title: Affective Matters: Translation, Censorship, and the Circulation of Romans-à-clef from Argentina to Franco’s Spain (1960-1980) |
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Peter Morley |
Thesis topic/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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Shahab Nadimi |
Thesis topic/title: Toward Theorizing Refugee Narrative in Contemporary World Literature World Literature in English; Comparative Literature; Refugee Studies; Immigrant Literature; Diasporic Literature; Neoliberalism; Biopolitics; Middle Eastern literatures and cultures; Kurdish and Persian Literature |
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Anna Olenenko |
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Monika Pitonak |
Thesis topic/title: “If you speak it, you can translate it, right?”: An Exploration of Translator Training Offered by Provincial Translation Associations My main research interest is translation studies, with a focus on official/document translation and community translation, especially within an immigration context. More broadly, I am also interested in the connections between language and culture and intercultural communication. |
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Illia Pokotylo |
Thesis topic/title: Representation of Music in Comics media |
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Haining Ren |
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Saman Rezaei |
Thesis topic/title: A New Analysis of Narrative Elements in Suhrawardi's Ishraqi Philosophy Islamic Philosophy, History of Western Philosophy, Metaphysics, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Semiotics, Narratology, Iranian Ancient Philosophy, Comparative Literature |
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Laya Soleymanzadeh |
Thesis topic/title: Critical Reception of Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis My research interest spans over several fields, including postcolonial migration narratives, African diaspora literature, Iranian diaspora literature, comics and graphic novels, and gender and critical race theory. I am especially interested in the philosophy of Hospitality and multiculturalism and have studied the relationship between the two in my previous research on Abdulrazak Gurnah (the Nobel laureate of 2021). |
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Sajad Soleymani |
Thesis topic/title: Muslim Shahada as Queer Desire, Toward a Spiritual Queer Relationality for the Present How does shahada, the Muslim act of bearing witness, intersect with queer relationality to reconfigure our understanding of spiritual and political resistance? This project excavates the complex entanglements of North American queer Muslims of color, threading together life writings and the profound role of shahada in shaping subjectivities of desire. Through an assemblage of personal narratives, this inquiry traces a spiritual queer relationality that simultaneously challenges and transcends conventional frameworks, ultimately challenging and redefining the possibilities for empowering marginalized voices in the 21st century. |
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Dominika Tabor |
Thesis topic/title: Canadian multicultural young adult literature pertaining to migration to Canada |
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Laura L. Velazquez |
Thesis topic/title: Through our Immigrant Eyes: Point of View and the (De)formations of Citizenship in Hispanic and Sinophone Literature and Film |
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Ningxin Wang |
Thesis topic/title: Symbolism in Chinese cinema |
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Yan (Belinda) Wang |
Thesis topic/title: Swordsmen in/out of the Closet: Queer Bodies and Subjectivities in Chinese Martial Arts Cinema |
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Meiling Xiao |
Maritime literature, modernism |
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Dmytro Yesypenko |
Thesis topic/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). |