Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Madness in the Media: News Coverage of Police Lethal Force on Persons with Mental Illness

Levesque, Kristen (2020)

Police encounters with persons with mental illness have been increasing since the deinstitutionalization of the 1960s. As a result, persons with mental illness are the most vulnerable demographic to police use of lethal ...

“Open Yourself to the World”: Reasons for Studying Foreign Languages in University

Michels, Victoria (2020)

Canadian universities are constantly promoting the importance of multicultural education. However, the departments that are strongly suited to developing intercultural understanding among students, namely humanities and ...

Rethinking "Reconciliation": A Discussion of J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace in the Context of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Power, Emily Kathleen (2020-04-05)

"Quid Est Classicum?" The Classics and South Africa in J. M. Coetzee's Age of Iron

Lucia, David (2020-03-06)

On the Possibility of a Cinema of Cruelty

Laing, Nathan (2020-03-06)

Reading Autoimmunity in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl as a Discursive Reframing of Immunology

Sweny, Alexandra (2020-03-06)

Translating Transnational Transformations: Identity Crisis in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake and Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms

Suh, Bo-Kang (2020-03-06)

Coercion in Octavia E. Butler's Xenogenesis

Gilson, Kimberly (Dalhousie University, 2020-03)

Throughout Octavia E. Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy, which introduces humanity to an alien species called the Oankali, there are many imbalances of power. Between violence from toxic masculinity and alien sedatives, the ...

Memorializing Middle-Earth: Memory and Memorial as a Means of Healing in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings

King, Griffin (2020-03-04)

From National to Global identity: Effects of Migration on the Individual in Mohsin Hamid's Exit West

van den Bosch, Hannah (2020-03-04)

"All Imagination Compact:" The Ambiguous Relationship between Human Nature and Nonhuman Nature in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Kettley, Meagan (2020-03-03)

Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream probes the mysterious Elizabethan relationship between human and nonhuman nature. The common belief at this time saw nature as an almighty force of God; yet, there were many contradicting ...

"O trespass sweetly urged!" : gender defiance and queer utopia in the most excellent and lamentable comic tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

Zagar, Ellen (2020-03-02)

“Looking together united them”: Art and Femininity in Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse

Glickman, Beatrice (2020-03)

“Finding Joy in the Act of Giving:” Volunteering Amidst Tensions of Altruism and Egoism

Vanstone, Rena (2019-04)

Volunteering is an action commonly assumed to be altruistic and beneficial to society; one such benefit is the assumed potential of volunteer work to create community ties. This study uses the gift exchange framework to ...

“How do we Better Prepare for the Future?”: Political Ambivalence and Income Guarantees in Canadian Media

Slauenwhite, Melissa (2019-05)

Economies in the globalized world are undergoing rapid changes due to automation. These changes have exacerbated wealth inequality in many nations, prompting calls for more effective poverty reduction strategies. In Canada, ...

Pseudoindividuality and the search for community in American Pulp Fiction

Leger, Jacob (2019-03-23)

A Mouth with a Purpose: The Female Voice and Reclaiming Feminine Desire in Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Cometh Up as a Flower

Segato, Noelle (2019-03-08)