Graduate Course Listing

The Colloquium will bring together all students in the program with faculty, visiting scholars and experts (e.g., archivists, librarians, printers, publishers, editors, booksellers, book designers, researchers in various aspects of theories of publics) for an exploration of relevant historical, theoretical and practical issues. The Colloquium will be offered in fall semester.

Topics include research methods and resources; the nature and requirements of a research project; the presentation of the results of research in public forums; career development, academic and non-academic. At the end of the year, students will publicly present a paper; in most cases this will be a proposal for their Thesis or Major Research Paper or Internship. The Seminar will be offered in winter semester.

Explores philosophies and theories of publics through political, affective, and radical public texts. We will focus on concepts of publics in multiple historical contexts in order to put pressure on our ideas of what publics have been, what they are, and what they can be in the future.

This course will critically explore selected theoretical, empirical, and creative constructions, contestations and celebrations of Canadian culture(s). Course content ranges from the national to the local, examining cultural communities and identities, intellectual traditions, cultural policies, museums and galleries, and cultural expression in film, theatre and literature.

Cross-listed: CSID-5202H, CAST-6102H

What happens to the study of the materiality of texts when a screen replaces the paper or parchment, and the stability of the written or printed signs is no longer guaranteed? Topics include: paratexts and metadata, archival theory, the Digital Humanities, hypertexts, technology, and the book as fetish.

This course explores the complex relationship between grief, creativity, and public protest. Through a combination of literary and theoretical texts and public art installations, we will examine how grief functions as both a personal and political act. What role do public memorials, protests, and cultural practices of mourning play in challenging state-sanctioned narratives of loss, erasure, and violence?

Approximately 50 pages, modeled on a scholarly journal article. It is supervised and assessed by a member of the English graduate faculty. The grade will be assigned by the supervisor and a second reader from the English graduate faculty.

The 1.0 credit Research-Creation project will ask students to create a public text with artistic, scholarly,and experimental dimensions. The project will include both a creative public text and a 30-page scholarly explanation, critique and theorization of the text. The research-creation project will be supervised by a member of the English graduate faculty, who will assign a grade based on the 30-page research essay. The project must be completed by the end of the third semester.

This course enables students to pursue topics of particular interest which are not presented in existing courses. It allows concentrated, integrated study on a topic or problem that is specifically relevant to a student's approved program. It enables the student and instructor the opportunity to explore shared interests.

Courses may be offered in a variety of areas as a way of introducing students to new subject matter, research techniques or methodologies. After one year, these courses will be reviewed for inclusion in the regular program curriculum.