This online database contains the full-text of PhD dissertations and Masters’ theses of Wilfrid Laurier University students from 1982 forward. These documents are made available for personal study and research purposes only, in accordance with the Canadian Copyright Act and the Creative Commons license—CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivative Works). Under this license, works must always be attributed to the copyright holder (original author), cannot be used for any commercial purposes, and may not be altered. Any other use would require the permission of the copyright holder. Students can choose to withdraw their dissertation and/or thesis from this database. For additional inquiries, please contact the repository administrator via e-mail or by telephone at 519-884-0710 ext. 2073.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2025

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Diverse Voices and Queer Optimisms: Exploring Queer Potentialities in 21st C. Young Adult Literature, Denise Springett

Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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(Re)mediating History in Canadian Auto/biographic Long Poems since 1970, Heather Olaveson

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Femme Ex Machina: Sex Robots, Embodiment, and Posthuman Subjectivity, Julia A. Empey

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Debilitating Publics: Reading CanLit's Investigations into Psycho-Affective Pain and Social Change, Rebekah Ludolph

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Holy Estrangement: The Poetics of Estrangement in John Donne's Divine Poems and Sermons, Anton Bergstrom

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‘NOT SHAP’D FOR SPORTIVE TRICKS:’ REPRESENTATIONS OF DISABILITY IN FILM AND DIGITAL BROADCAST CINEMA ADAPTATIONS OF EARLY MODERN DRAMA, Grace McCarthy

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Never Seen Before--Again: Aesthetic Adaptation and Transmedia Storytelling Networks in the Age of Digital Cinema, Mike McCleary

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The Mockery of Things: Material Culture and Domestic Ideology in the Detective Fiction of Anna Katharine Green, Claire Meldrum

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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"A meruelous thinge!": Elizabeth of Spalbeek, Christina the Astonishing, and Performative Self-Abjection in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 114, Murrielle Michaud

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Girls’ Voices of the Eighteenth Century: The Development of a Genre for Young Female Readers, 1740-1800, Sarah Rangaratnam

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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In Search of Lost Selves: Memory and Subjectivity in Transnational Art Cinema, Anders J. Bergstrom

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Narrative Pleasures and Feminist Politics: Popular Women’s Historical Fiction, 1990-2015, Victoria Kennedy

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Strange Compositions: Chemistry and its Occult History in Victorian Speculative Fiction, Susan Hroncek

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The Struggle To Be Heard: Toronto's Postproduction Sound Industry, 1968 to 2005, Katherine E. Quanz

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National Crises and Moments of Laughter in ‘Second Interregnum’ South African Drama, 2001-2014, J. Coplen Rose

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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FALLING MEN IN 9/11 AMERICAN FICTION, Justin D. Shaw

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Polish or Work? Four Women Novelists and the Professionalization of Accomplishment, 1796-1814, Ada Sharpe

Theses/Dissertations from 2010

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The Warrior Women of Transnational Cinema: Gender and Race in Hollywood and Hong Kong Action Movies, Lisa Funnell

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Witnessing from a Distance: Postwar Literary Representations of the Holocaust, Miriam Carolin Raethel

Theses/Dissertations from 2009

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Phantoms of Old Forms: The Gothic Mode in the Dramatic Verse of Tennyson and Browning, Michael E. Ackerman

Theses/Dissertations from 2008

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Mis-Education and the Crisis in Male Subjectivity: William Godwin’s Middle Novels, 1799–1817, Lisa-Marie Lynn Butler

Theses/Dissertations from 2005

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Reading Dario Argento's 'Inferno' (Italy), Alanna I. Sinclair

Theses/Dissertations from 2002

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'Intervital' spaces: The representation of liminal epiphany in Tennyson's death poems (Alfred, Lord Tennyson), Somaya Sami Reda Saber Sabry

Theses/Dissertations from 1998

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Discursive departures: A reading paradigm affiliated with feminist, lesbian, aesthetic and queer practices (with reference to Woolf, Stein and H.D.) (Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Hilda Doolittle), Tamara Ann Ramsay

Theses/Dissertations from 1997

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An unblinking gaze: Readerly response-ability and racial reconstructions in Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye' and 'Beloved', Lara Mary Fulton

Theses/Dissertations from 1996

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"One Tricky Coyote": The fiction of Thomas King, Giselle Rene Lavalley

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"In the business of believing women's stories": Feminism through detective fiction (Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton), Nora Martin

Theses/Dissertations from 1995

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The Chorus in Elizabeth Cary's 'Tragedy of Mariam', Viona Falk

Theses/Dissertations from 1979

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Lecture contrastive du “Week End Man” de R. Wright et du “Libraire” de G. Bessette, Hélène Carty

Theses/Dissertations from 1974

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Montesquieu’s Treatment of Women in his Works, Patricia Arbuckle

Theses/Dissertations from 1971

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The Working-Class as Portrayed in the Rougon-Macquart Series by Emile Zola, Ian Kim Hallaran

Theses/Dissertations from 1970

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Violence in the Novels of Emile Zola, Brenda Colleen Shantz

Theses/Dissertations from 1968

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Ibsen’s Influence on the Spanish Dramatist Jose Echegaray, Isabel Alvarez

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Colette’s Study of Love: A Survey of the Study in Relation to Her Life and Work, Arthur LeBlanc

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Some Female Types in the Novels of Emile Zola, Sinikka Murto