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alexandra ANDERSON

Film, Latin American Studies, Politics

Scott Forsyth,
Harry Smaller,
Judith Hellman

Reflecting on Reality: The Place of Truth in Cuban and Canadian Documentary

rhett
ANDREW

Visual Arts, Humanities, Philosophy

Tim Whiten,
Jamie Scott,
Claudio Duran

"Respect: The Parabolic Quest for Self-Realization”

madeline

ASHBY

 

Jennifer Brayton

Wendy Wong

Suzie Young

"Transformation Bodies: Anime, Fandom, and Cyborg Sub-cultures"

natalie

AZZI

 

David Noble

Tony Turrittin

Livy Visano

"Canada’s Prison Privatization Experiment: A Critique."

gord
BARENTSEN

Romanticism, Psycho-analysis, Cultural Theory

Ian Balfour,
Robert Bowman,
Elizabeth Seaton

‘Where is the Anti-Nowhere League?’ English Romanticism and Punk Subculture

sarah
BENJAMIN

Psychology, Mass Communication, Sociology

Fred Fletcher,
L. Ripley,
C. Chataway

The Theory of “Identity Dissonance”: Mass Communication, Romance Fiction, and the Self-Concept

adam M.
CANTOR

Anthropology, Classics, English

David Paul Lumsden,
Jamie Scott,
James Rives

Pig/Human Transformations in The Odyssey and Animal Farm

annette

BAZIRA OKAFOR

 

Barbara Evans

Pablo Idahosa

Modupe Olaogun

"African Women in Documentary Films on Africa (1992-2006): North-South Representations"

tracy
CLEMENGER

Science & Technology, Philosophy, Theology

Malcolm Blincow,
Martin Fichman,
David Noble

Co-Creators with God: The Intersection of Genetics and Religion in U.S. Public Policy

lynn
CUNNINGHAM

Business, Economics, Cultural Studies

Fred Fletcher,
Julia Creet,
Liora Salter

Culture Wars: How Canada Lost the Battle to Protects its Magazines

beth
CUTTS

Women’s Studies, Sociology, Law, Social and Political Thought

Joanne Stuckey,
D. Orr.,
R. Schlesinger

Women and Euthanasia: An Interdisciplinary Approach

lee
DAVIS CREAL

Women’s Studies, Creative Writing, English Literature

Marlene Kadar,
Susan Ehrlich,
Douglas Freake

Dancing with Fire: A Family Life Writing Narrative

lauren

DiMONTE

Art History, Cultural Studies, Anthropology

Steve Bailey,

Jennifer Fisher, Yvonne Singer

Telling It Like It Is: Harold Cromwell And The Black Nova Scotian Folk Art Tradition

rachel
DUBROFSKY  

Sociology, Gender Studies, Psychoanalysis

A. Pitt,
E. Hewitt,
D. Khayatt

All Consuming Selves: Women Reading Popular Psychology

john

EDWARDS

 

Bob Adolph

Tom Cohen

Dorothy de Val

Poets, Musicians and the Etiology of English Melancholy 1586-1651

lisa
ELLENWOOD

 

Women's Studies, Media Studies, Video Production

Elizabeth Seaton,
Barbara Evans,
Ted Magder

“Smart, Confident, Yet Feminine”: Paradoxes and Contradictions in Women’s Television. A Case Study of the Women’s Television Network

sandra
FAHY

Women’s Studies, Irish Historical Literature, Creative Writing

Susan Ehrlich,
John Unrau,
Richard Teleky

Writing Great Hunger: Ireland in 1845 –50 and Irish Potato Famine.

nancy
FILLION

Feminist Anthropology, Women's Studies, Asian Studies

Penny Van Esterik, Theresa Hyun,
Douglas Freake

Reproductive Technology, Disciplinary Technology: Exploring Empowerment and Birth Control Use in New Order Indonesia

aubie
GOLEMBEK

Photography, Philosophy, Art History

Tom Cohen,
Patrick Gray,
Don Snyder (Adjunct)

Christ Before Christians: The Christological Incarnation of Renaissance Perspectives

alison
GORDON

 

Women's Studies, Communications, Philosphy, Linguistics

Susan Ehrlich,
Elizabeth Seaton,
Michael Gilbert

(Re)Constructing the Discourse of Women’s Magazine’s Mediation of Medicine

leeat
GRANEK

Humanities, Psychology, Women’s Studies

Mariam Mongrain,
David Rennie,
Douglas Freake

Depression as Synergy: A Relational, Identity and Existential Experience

john

GREYSON

 

Barbara Balfour

Barbara Godard

Ilan Kapoor

"PILS SLIP: The making and unmaking of a doc-op about AIDS Activism (or, How do we sing about AIDS?)"

john
HARVEY

 

Communication, Political Science, Linguistics

Harris Breslow,
Susan Ehrlich,
David Bell

The Vicissitudes of Political Debate: The Career of the Terms Politically Correct and Political Correctness in the Toronto Area Press in the 1990s

finn
HARVOR

 

Creative Writing, Visual Arts, Video

Penni Stewart,
Douglas Freake,
Susan Swan

A Light in the Face/Skin Gallery

 

gita
HASHEMI

 

Digital Interactive Media, Narrative Theories, Social & Political Thought; Iranian History; Gender Studies

A. Buturovic,
Renate Wickens,
H. Moghissi

Between Parallel Mirrors: Foucault, Atoussa and Me, On Sexuality of History (paper) and of Shifting Shadows (CD-ROM)

john
IRWIN

Criminology, Philosophy, Law

Dianne Martin,
Margaret Beare,
Marie Christine Leps

Undercover Police Work in Canada and the Rule of Law

anna
ISACSSON

 Women’s Studies, Education

Didi Khayatt, Rishma Dunlop, Sharon Rosenberg

The Geography of Female Courtship: Life and Work of  Jane Bowles

gurbir
JOLLY

 

Postcolonial Literary Theory, Social Memory Theory, Feminist Cultural Studies/Methodologies,  On-line Performativity

Patrick Taylor,
Ada Testaferri,
Arun Mukherjee

Subjectivity and Agency: An “Ethnographic” Contextualization of Six Indian Post-Immigrant Women’s Texts 

Gurbir’s Publications: Bolo Bolo, Desilicious

carwyn
JONES

Law, Environmental Studies, Maori Studies

Peter Cole,
Brian Slattery,
Linda Tuhiwai- Smith (Adjunct)

Tino Rangatiratanga and Sustainable Development: Principles for Developing a Just and Effective Resources Management Regime in Aotearoa/New Zealand

evan p.
JONES

 

Surrealism, Creative Writing, Classicism, Modern Greek Poetry

Richard Teleky, Matthew Clark, Yvonne Singer

Returning to an Original Source: The Surrealist Recovery of Classical Greek Poetics by Modern Greek Poets

Evan’s Publications:  Nothing Fell Today But Rain

michael
KOZIEROWSKI

History, Humanities, Autobiography Studies

Tom Cohen,
Jamie Scott,
Heather Campbell

Seeking Stability in the Unknown World of Michel De Montaigne

francesca L'ORFANO

 

Italian Canadian Studies, Film and Video, Visual Arts, Women's Studies, Education

Brenda Longfellow, Yvonne Singer,
Franc Sturino

Challenging Exclusion: Film, Video, Women, Memory, Identity and the Italian Canadian Immigrant Experience

walter
LAKE

 

Creative Writing, Anthropology, Environmental Studies

Richard Teleky,
Naomi Adelson,
Joe Sheridan

Writing the North: Fiction, Place and Culture

tracey
LLOYD

 

History, Sociology, Environmental Studies

Patricia Evans,
Percy Anderson,
David Trotman

Planning and the Politics of Race

katie MACDONALD  

Barbara Heron

Carlota McAllister

Patrick Taylor

Unarticulated Spaces of Difference in Development: Finding Room for Radical Change in Spaces of Invisibility

heather
MAINS

Anthropology, Women’s Studies, Fine Arts

Gail Linday,
Becky Lee,
Andrea O’Reilly

The Art of Giving Birth: The Power of Ritualizing

rosemary
MANTINI

Folklore, Social/Political Thought, History, Education

Carole Carpenter,
Rinaldo Walcott,
Nick Rogers

Subversive Dialogues: Folklore Children’s Culture and the Gang

david
MCINTOSH

 

Film and Video, Science and Technology, History of the Nation-State

Brenda Longfellow,
Joan Steigerwald,
Don Yon

Nation, Nation-State, National Cinema and Free Trade: Shifting Canadian and Mexican Film Cultures Since 1989 under FTA and NAFTA

andrea
MONAHAN

Sociology, Women's Studies, Environmental Studies

Desmond Ellis,
D. Kehoe,
Patricia McDermott

Power in Divorce Mediation

tanita

MUNESHWAR

 

Kamala Kempadoo

Jamie Scott

Patrick Taylor

“(Her) Stories Written: The Construction of Identity Through Politics, Culture and Education in the Novels of Contemporary Indo-Guyanese Women”

caroline

O'BRIEN

 

Julia Creet

Norma Sue Fisher-Stitt

Yvonne Singer

Between the Seams: The Making of a Princess

nikole

PASCETTA

 

Don Dippo

Susan McGrath

Belarie Zatzman

"Making Meaning Through Movement: A Theatre Pedagogy for English Language Learning in Refugee Youth Settlement"

jutta
RAITHEL

 

Classical Studies, Art History, History, Rhetoric

R. Schneider,
J. Edmonson, G. Metraux,
K. Stanworth

In a Mirror, Brightly: The Didactic Value of Visual Imagery in an Early Icon and an Ekphrastic Sermon (The Enthroned Virgin of Mount Sinai and Pseudo-Gregory of Nazianzus, Oration 35)

shaun
RICHARDS

 

Nineteenth-century French Literary Studies and Social History, Postcolonial Studies, Women's Studies

Nicholas Rogers, Elizabeth Cohen, Sergio Villani

"Baudelaire's "Black Venus": Alterity, Identity and the Modern Muse

 

robin
ROWLAND

Law, Philosophy, Refugee Studies, History, Theatre

Craig Scott,
Howard Adelman,
Robert Fothergill

Command Ability and Command Responsibility – Lt. Col. Hirateru Banno and the “F Force” Trails

julie
SENNA

Art History, Visual Arts, Psychology

Raymond Fancher, Gordon Flett,
Anne-Marie Lewis

A Psychobiographical Analysis of William Blake: His Life and Work

meera
SETHI

 

Cultural Theory, Visual Art Theory, Feminist Theory, Postcolonial Theory

Arun Mukherjee, Nancy Nicol, Ramabai Espinet

Critical Art Practices:

The Visual Art of Jamelie Hassan, Sarindar Dhaliwal, and Jin-me Yoon

donald
SINCLAIR

 

Fine Arts, Cultural Studies, Mass Communication, Computer Science

Jerry Durlak,
C.K. Peng,
Nina DeShane

Examining an Interactive New Media Object: Laurie Anderson’s “Puppet Motel”

christopher SMITH  

Warren Crichlow

Janine Marchessault

Leslie Sanders

"Thinking Otherwise: The Politics of Black Queer Filmmaking."

sara
THOMPSON

 

Fairytales, Popular Culture, Drama

Carole Carpenter, Renate Wickens, Christopher Innes

The Words that Remain: Two Theories of Performance and the Question of Identity in Contemporary Variations of “Sleeping Beauty”

anna
VANDENBERG

Humanities, Psychology, Education

Matthew Clark,
Jill Rich,
Celia Haig-Brown

Communication, Ethics, Learning: The Lost Contexts of Memory Arts

giselle
VINCETT

Anthropology, Religious Studies, Women’s Studies

Andrea O’Reilly,
Jordan Paper, Joanne Stuckey

Resacralizing the Profane: Symbols in Feminist Goddess Worship

danielle
VRIEND

English Literature, Women’s Studies, Political Science

Douglas Freake, Arun Mukherjee, Wenona Giles

Identity Watershed: The Work of Sri Lankan Writer Jean Arasanayagam

amy

WANOUNOU

 

Minoo Derayeh

David Dewitt

Haideh Moghissi

Female Palestinian Suicide Bombers: Causes and Motivations

shawn
WHITNEY

Humanities, Social Science, Political Science

Marlene Kadar, Robert Fothergill, John Allett

Radical Theatre: From Theory to Practice

daniel
ZANTH

 

 

Richard Teleky,
Jill Bell,
Teresa Hyun

Teaching English in South Korea: Studying, Shaping and Representing my Expatriate Experiences-Theory and Original Fiction