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.
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Diverse Voices and Queer Optimisms: Exploring Queer Potentialities in 21st C. Young Adult Literature, Denise Springett
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
(Re)mediating History in Canadian Auto/biographic Long Poems since 1970, Heather Olaveson
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Femme Ex Machina: Sex Robots, Embodiment, and Posthuman Subjectivity, Julia A. Empey
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Debilitating Publics: Reading CanLit's Investigations into Psycho-Affective Pain and Social Change, Rebekah Ludolph
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Holy Estrangement: The Poetics of Estrangement in John Donne's Divine Poems and Sermons, Anton Bergstrom
‘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
Never Seen Before--Again: Aesthetic Adaptation and Transmedia Storytelling Networks in the Age of Digital Cinema, Mike McCleary
The Mockery of Things: Material Culture and Domestic Ideology in the Detective Fiction of Anna Katharine Green, Claire Meldrum
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
"A meruelous thinge!": Elizabeth of Spalbeek, Christina the Astonishing, and Performative Self-Abjection in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 114, Murrielle Michaud
Girls’ Voices of the Eighteenth Century: The Development of a Genre for Young Female Readers, 1740-1800, Sarah Rangaratnam
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
In Search of Lost Selves: Memory and Subjectivity in Transnational Art Cinema, Anders J. Bergstrom
Narrative Pleasures and Feminist Politics: Popular Women’s Historical Fiction, 1990-2015, Victoria Kennedy
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Strange Compositions: Chemistry and its Occult History in Victorian Speculative Fiction, Susan Hroncek
The Struggle To Be Heard: Toronto's Postproduction Sound Industry, 1968 to 2005, Katherine E. Quanz
National Crises and Moments of Laughter in ‘Second Interregnum’ South African Drama, 2001-2014, J. Coplen Rose
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
FALLING MEN IN 9/11 AMERICAN FICTION, Justin D. Shaw
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Polish or Work? Four Women Novelists and the Professionalization of Accomplishment, 1796-1814, Ada Sharpe
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
The Warrior Women of Transnational Cinema: Gender and Race in Hollywood and Hong Kong Action Movies, Lisa Funnell
Witnessing from a Distance: Postwar Literary Representations of the Holocaust, Miriam Carolin Raethel
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Phantoms of Old Forms: The Gothic Mode in the Dramatic Verse of Tennyson and Browning, Michael E. Ackerman
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Mis-Education and the Crisis in Male Subjectivity: William Godwin’s Middle Novels, 1799–1817, Lisa-Marie Lynn Butler
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Reading Dario Argento's 'Inferno' (Italy), Alanna I. Sinclair
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
'Intervital' spaces: The representation of liminal epiphany in Tennyson's death poems (Alfred, Lord Tennyson), Somaya Sami Reda Saber Sabry
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
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
"One Tricky Coyote": The fiction of Thomas King, Giselle Rene Lavalley
"In the business of believing women's stories": Feminism through detective fiction (Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton), Nora Martin
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
The Chorus in Elizabeth Cary's 'Tragedy of Mariam', Viona Falk
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
Lecture contrastive du “Week End Man” de R. Wright et du “Libraire” de G. Bessette, Hélène Carty
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
Montesquieu’s Treatment of Women in his Works, Patricia Arbuckle
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
The Working-Class as Portrayed in the Rougon-Macquart Series by Emile Zola, Ian Kim Hallaran
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
Violence in the Novels of Emile Zola, Brenda Colleen Shantz
Theses/Dissertations from 1968
Ibsen’s Influence on the Spanish Dramatist Jose Echegaray, Isabel Alvarez
Colette’s Study of Love: A Survey of the Study in Relation to Her Life and Work, Arthur LeBlanc
Some Female Types in the Novels of Emile Zola, Sinikka Murto