Student Research Projects
Current Research Projects
Erin Holtz Braeckman
Supervisor: Margaret Steffler
Thesis: From the Playground to the Poem: Child Culture in the Poetry of Mary Oliver
Karen Heffernan Cummings
Supervisor: Margaret Steffler
Thesis: From Reading to Reality: The Girl Public's Response to Current Adolescent Girl Books
Natalie Forest
Supervisor: Rita Bode
Thesis: Sister Texts: The Anxieties of Adapting Jane
Sarah Kastner
Supervisor: Hugh Hodges
Thesis: Archiving Yvonne Vera: Private Meaning, Public Subjects
Lesley Liu
Supervisor: Zailig Pollock
Thesis: Reconceptualizing Digital Reading: E-Book Readers in a Technological Era
Elena Merrill
Supervisor: Margaret Steffler
Thesis: "To Keep the Thread Unbroken": Connecting the Private and Public Life - Writing of P.K. Page
Amanda Miller
Supervisor: Zailig Pollock
Internship: Mapping E-Text, Texturing Screen: E-Reader as Paratext and the Emerging Identities of E-Books
Sarah Miller
Supervisor: Sarah Keefer
Thesis: Re-Imagining Maldon: A Medieval Screenplay
Megan Polley
Supervisor: Michael Epp
Internship: Making the Brand: Understanding Authors through Digital Media
Jacob Saltiel
Supervisor: Zailig Pollock
Internship: Back to the Future: E-Publishing and the Future of Magazine Fiction
Mina Shekarbani
Supervisor: Zailig Pollock
Thesis: Shedding Light: P.K. Page and the Sufi Influence
Stephanie Small
Supervisor: Zailig Pollock
Internship: Re-calling Hypertext: Redefining Hypertextual Editing in the E-Book Age
Charlotte Smith
Supervisor: Zailig Pollock
Major Research Paper: "The Same Pen”: the Intersection of Art and Literature in the Works of P. K. Page
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Completed Research Projects
Emily Ballantyne
Supervisor: Zailig Pollock
Thesis: "Exile and Inhabitant": P.K. Page's Brazil
Brent Bellamy
Supervisor: Michael Epp
Thesis: The Tramp, The Fan, and the Working Man: Bruce Springsteen, "The Road", and American Publics
Sara Berniker
Supervisor: Michael Epp
Thesis: Writing is Dangerous: Exploring Creativity and the Other in Stephen King's Fiction, 2009
Stefanie Bradley
Supervisor: Michael Epp
Major Research Paper: An Iconoclastic Journalistic Persona: Robertson Davies and the Diaries of Samuel Marchbanks, 2009
Nelly Chen
Supervisor: Margaret Steffler
Internship: Public Advocacy: From Text to Action, 2008
Anthony Donnelly
Supervisor: Orm Mitchell
Internship: From History to Myth: The Biographer, Subject and Reader in Contemporary Biography, 2010
Christopher Doody
Supervisor: Zailig Pollock
Thesis: Douglas Coupland and Ergodic Paratext: Overcoming Aporia in Generation X and Microserfs, 2011
Alicia Fahey
Supervisor: Leonard Conolly
Thesis: Sheila Watson's The Double Hook (a critical edition) , 2011
Christopher Gray
Supervisor: Leonard Conolly
Thesis: Giving the Devil His Due: Bernard Shaw's "The Devil's Disciple", 2010
Claire Gullander-Drolet
Supervisor: Charmaine Eddy
Major Research Paper : Chester Himes and the Harlem Domestic Series, 2011
Thomas Jenkins
Supervisor: Hugh Hodges
Thesis: Run Come Rally: Rastafari Texts and the Creation of Publics in Post-Colonial Jamaica, 2011
Ewa Krynski
Supervisor: Orm Mitchell
Internship: Biography: At the Crossroads of Fact and Fiction, 2009
Emily Ann Lamond
Supervisor: Zailig Pollock
Internship: The Cultural and Social Benefits of Community Theatre, 2009
Michael Morton
Supervisor:Stephen Brown
Major Research Paper: The Spectator’s Milieu: Commoditization of a Public Text, 2011
Sean Morton
Supervisor: Leonard Conolloy
Major Research Paper: Ontario University Library Book Acquisition Policies in an Electronic Age, 2008
Lauralee Proudfoot
Supervisor: Joanne Findon
Major Research Paper: A Public In-Between: Publishing Fiction for Emerging Adults, 2009
Natasha Regehr
Supervisor: James Neufeld
Internship: Singing to the Choir: Community Interactions with Choral Texts, 2011
Matthew Ryan
Supervisor: Michael Epp
Major Research Paper : The Harvard Classics: Self-Education and Private Property
Katelynn Schoop
Supervisor: Michael Epp
Thesis: "Hearts Ripe, Brains Aglow": Narrative, Subjectivity, and Feeling in Post-Postmodernism, 2009
Amanda Siddall
Supervisor: Zailig Pollock
Internship: The Death of the Traditional Editor, 2011
Stephanie Tyler
Supervisor: Sarah Keefer
Thesis: The Outsider in Anglo-Saxon Literature: Geographical Boundaries and Concepts of "Otherness", 2010
Amanda Van der Wey
Supervisor: Lewis MacLeod
Thesis: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: Shifting Centres, Margins, and Publics, 2011
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