Graduates and Theses
Cultural Mediations Graduates and Theses
2025
- Casey Gray, Assembling Bodies: the museum exhibition as apparatus of bodily production in Canada and the United Kingdom. Supervisor: Dr. Monica Patterson.
2024
- Krista Zawadski, ᐱᖁᑏᑦ ᐃᓅᓯᖓᑦ ᖃᑎᒃᑕᓕᖕᒥᑦ PIQUTIIT INUUSINGAT QATIKTALINGMIT: CULTURAL AND SOCIAL LIVES OF INUIT PIQUTINGIT. Supervisor: Dr. Carmen Robertson
- Cara Tierney, Art as Gender Pedagogy: A Transdisciplinary Investigation of Art in the Service of Gender Liberation. Supervisor: Dr. Laura Horak.
- Kevin Pat Fong, Reframing Racial Passing in Asian Diaspora Comics. Supervisors: Dr. Sarah Phillips Casteel, Dr. Catherine Khordoc.
- Anna Paluch, From Turtle Island to Vistula’s Shores: Indigenous North American and Eastern European Futurisms in Dialogue. Supervisors: Dr. Allan Ryan, Dr. Philip Kaisary.
2023
- Jessica Marino, Holocaust Memory, Aesthetics and the Dictatorships of the Southern Cone of Latin America: Interconnecting Memories and Traumas. Supervisor: Dr. Sarah Phillips Casteel.
- Gemey Kelly, Place and Standing in Canadian Art: Jack Humphrey and the Discourses of Regionalism, 1930–1967. Supervisor: Dr. Brian Foss.
- Marie-Catherine Allard, Reshaping Memory: Counter-narratives in Kindertransport Literature. Supervisor: Dr. Sarah Phillips Casteel.
- Victoria Nolte, One Place and Another: Worldmaking in Asian Canadian Contemporary Art. Supervisors: Dr. Ming Tiampo, Dr. Sarah Phillips Casteel.
2022
- Pansee Abou ElAtta, Unruly Appreciations: How contestation shapes the value of Pharaonic thing (Senate Medal for Outstanding Achievement). Supervisors: Dr. Monica Patterson, Dr. Ming Tiampo.
- Amy Bruce, Resistivity in Contemporary Art Biennials: A Synchronic Analysis. Supervisors: Dr. Ming Tiampo, Dr. Birgit Hopfener.
- Patricia Bérubé, Towards a More Inclusive Museum: Developing Multi-Sensory Approaches to the Visual Arts for Visually Impaired Audiences. Supervisors: Dr. Jesse Stewart, Dr. Lois Frankel.
- Lale Eskicioğlu, Beyond Postcolonialism: Urban and Social Realist Turn in Indian and Nigerian Literatures. Supervisor: Dr. Sarah Phillips Casteel.
- Nicola Oddy, Seeking Awareness of Our Selves and the Environment through Vocal Improvisation in The Singing Field. Supervisor: Dr. Jesse Stewart.
- Christina Williamson, Sewing in Arviat: Inuit Women’s Work Through Stories and Parkas. Supervisors: Dr. Michel Hogue, Dr. Ruth Phillips.
2021
- Hicham Gourgem, Beyond Afropolitanism: Representations of African Identities in Select 21st Century African Novels. Supervisor: Dr. Nduka Otiono.
- Emily (Emma) Lind, The White Settler Colonial Landscape of Toronto’s Wychwood Park. Supervisor: Dr. Peter Hodgins.
2020
- Trina Cooper-Bolam, Claiming the Terrible Gift – A Post-TRC Investigation in Praxiological Museology, recipient of a Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement. Supervisor: Dr. Ruth Phillips.
- Konstantinos (Dino) Koutras, Screening Politics: The Egalitarian Film Theory of Jacques Rancière, nominated for a Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement. Supervisor: Dr. Marc Furstenau.
- Matthew Purvis, John Boyle, Greg Curnoe and Joyce Wieland: Erotic Art and English Canadian Nationalism, recipient of a Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement. Supervisor: Dr. Brian Foss.
2019
- Jenna Stidwill, “Beyond Mickey Mouse History”: The Disney Archive and the Construction of Animation History as Discipline, 1928-2018. Supervisor: Dr. Brian Greenspan.
2018
- Rachel Chantal Beausoleil-Morrison, A Nation Sings Itself: São Paulo Voices and the Canons of Brazilian Song. Supervisors: Dr. Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Dr. Lori Burns.
- Joana de Medeiros Mota Pimentel, Transcultrual Bodies: A Comparative Approach to Dissident ‘Minor’ Women’s Writings in Portuguese, Italian, and Spanish. Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Khordoc.
- Matthew Rushton, Photographs in Two Works of Life Writing: L’Afrique fantôme by Michel Leiris and L’Africain by J.-M.G Le Clézio. Supervisor: Dr. Sébastien Côté.
- Sarah Thorne, The Shape of Games to Come: Critical Digital Storytelling in the Era of Communicative Capitalism. Supervisor: Dr. Brian Greenspan.
2017
- Pamela M. Barber, A Dialogue among Genres during the Late Eighteenth Century: Conjectural History and Travellers’ Textual and Visual Representations of Cultures of the Near East and India. Supervisor: Dr. Mark Salber Phillips.
- Johnny El-Alam, Making or Breaking Nations. Traveling Memory in Contemporary Art and Photography: History, Commemoration, Nostalgia, and Humanitarian Interventions. Supervisors: Dr. Barbara Gabriel, Dr. Catherine Khordoc.
- Pauline Goutain, Art Brut’s Material Mythologies (1945-1976): Dimensions, Materials and Creative Processes. Supervisors: Dr. Fabrice Flahutez, Dr. Jill Carrick.
2016
- Michael Robert Audette-Longo, Shine a Light: Surveying Locality, Independence, and Digitization in Ottawa’s Independent Rock Scene. Supervisor: Dr. Paul Théberge
- Mihaela Irina, The Spell of Live Performance: HD Opera and Liveness Today. Supervisor: Dr. Paul Théberge.
- Mohsen Nasrin, The Intensity of Recollection-Images in Suspicious River and The Law of Enclosures. Supervisor: Dr. André Loiselle.
2015
- Todd Hokins, Virtual Graffiti: Dyscribing Humans. Supervisors: Dr. Jill Carrick, Dr. Carlos Novas.
- Anna Khimasia, At Play in the Archive: Reading Sophie Calle’s Double Game as Autofictional Remains. Supervisors: Dr. Chris Faulkner, Dr. Ming Tiampo.
- Owen Lyons, An Inverted Reflection: Representations of Finance and Speculation in Weimar Cinema. Supervisors: Dr. Barbara Gabriel, Dr. Mitchell Frank.
2014
- Thomas Michael Everrett, Ears Wide Shut: Headphones and Moral Design. Supervisor: Dr. Paul Théberge.
2013
- Jessica Laine Aldred, From Synthespian to Convergence Character: Reframing the Digital Human in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema. Supervisor: Dr. Mark Langer.
- 2013, Bianca Otilia Briciu, Negotiating Power: Gender and Body Politics in the New Wave Japanese Cinema. Supervisor: Dr. Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano.
- 2013, Matthew Croombs, An Opposition in Search of Itself: Modern French Cinema and the Algerian War. Supervisors: Dr. Chris Faulkner, Dr. Marc Furstenau.
- 2013, Annette Windsor de Stecher, Engaged Histories: Wendat Women’s Souvenir Arts of Cultural Preservation and Entrepreneurial Invention. Supervisor: Dr. Ruth Phillips.
- 2013, Heather Lynette Igloliorte, Nunatsiavummi Sananguagusigisimajangit / Nunatsiavut Art History: Continuity, Resilience, and Transformation in Inuit Art. Supervisor: Dr. Ruth Phillips.
- 2013, Stacey Anna-Marie Loyer, Belonging and Belongings: Ethnographic Collecting and Indigenous Agency at the Six Nations of the Grand River. Supervisor: Dr. Ruth Phillips.
- 2013, Daniel James Sheridan, Wagner and “Grand” Opera: Performing the Nation Through Embodied Sonorous Spectacle. Supervisor: Dr. James Deaville.
2012
- Kyle Ross Devine, Imperfect Sound Forever: Loudness, Listening, Formations, and the Historiography of Sound Reproduction. Supervisor: Dr. Paul Théberge.
- Paul Jasen, Bass: a myth-science of the sonic body. Supervisor: Dr. Paul Théberge.
- Danielle Annette M. Wiley, House as a City: Re-contructing Vancouver’s urban imaginary in master-planned neighbourhoods, South False Creek (1976-1986) and Concord Pacific Place (1990-2000). Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Fai.
2011
- Robert Edward Evans, A Bird’s-Eye View of Modernity: The Synoptic View in Nineteenth-Century Cityscapes. Supervisor: Dr. Mitchell Frank.
- Sylvie Jasen, Reenactment as Event in Contemporary Cinema. Supervisor: Dr. Chris Faulkner.
- Murray John Davis Leeder, Early Cinema and the Supernatural. Supervisor: Dr. Charles O’Brien.
- Jeremy Melvin Maron, Unbridgeable Barriers: The Holocaust in Canadian Cinema. Supervisor: Dr. André Loiselle.
- Eldritch Michael Priest, Boring Formless Nonsense (or, On the Aesthetics of Failure in Recent Experimental Composition). Supervisor: Dr. Geraldine Finn.
- Stephen J. Rifkin, André Bazin’s “Ontology of the Photographic Image”: Representation, Desire, and Presence. Supervisor: Dr. Chris Faulkner, Dr. Mark Salber Phillips.
- Benjamin Andrew Wright, Sound from Start to Finish: Professional Style and Practice in Modern Hollywood Sound Production. Supervisor: Dr. Paul Théberge.
2010
- Christopher Eaket, “Theatre-Outside-of-Theatres”: Spaces of Digital Performance. Supervisor: Dr. Brian Greenspan.
- María Victoria Guglietti, Imagining Drumbytes and Logging in Powwows: A History of Community Imagination in Canadian-Based Aboriginal New Media Art. Supervisor: Dr. Paul Théberge.
- Alex Wetmore, Touching Fiction: Embodied Narrative Self-Reflexivity and Eighteenth-Century British Sentimental Novels. Supervisor: Dr. Paul Keen, Dr. Mark Salber Phillips.
2009
- David W. Lafferty, Wyndham Lewis’s Kulturkampf. Supervisor: Dr. Chris Faulkner.
- Julia Margaret Pine, An “Anecdotic Self-Portrait”: Strategies of Disclosure in The Secret Life of Salvador Dali. Supervisor: Dr. Barbara Gabriel.
- Marc Raymond, Martin Scorsese and Film Culture: Radically Contextualizing the Contemporary Auteur. Supervisor: Dr. Mark Langer.
- Robert Sean Winger, John Thompson, Phyllis Webb, and the Roots of the Free-Verse Ghazal in Canada. Supervisor: Dr. Robert Hogg, Dr. Brenda Carr-Vellino.
2008
- Janne Cleveland, Getting in the Car to Weirdsville: Taking a Trip with Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes. Supervisor: Dr. Jodie Medd.