Alumni
Jacob Abrahamse
Supervisor: Rita Bode
Thesis: "Forging Masks Through Perceptions of the Maskless in Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes"
Naveera Ahmed
Supervisor: Suzanne Bailey
Thesis: Remembering the 'Home' through YouTube Cooking Videos: Sensory Evocations, Cultural Negotiations, and the Diasporic Kitchen, 2013
LA
Supervisor: Michael Epp
MRP: Diary of Agent Sunless
Eyitayo Aloh
Supervisor: Hugh Hodges
Thesis: Engaging the Unwritten Text: The Role of Orality and Popular Culture in the Social Engineering Process of Postcolonial Nigeria, 2015
Tanya Aminataei
Supervisor: Suzanne Bailey
MRP: Censorship, Canadian Publishing Industry, Readership, and Indigenous Literature: The Role of Freudian Psychoanalysis in Censorship of Works of Canadian Literature, 2020
Christine Babikian
Supervisor: Margaret Steffler
Internship: An Editorial Intern’s Guide to Trade Publishing: Perspectives from a Small Division, 2012
Emily Ballantyne
Supervisor: Zailig Pollock
Thesis: "Exile and Inhabitant": P.K. Page's Brazil, 2010
Brent Bellamy
Supervisor: Michael Epp
Thesis: The Tramp, The Fan, and the Working Man: Bruce Springsteen, "The Road", and American Publics, 2009
Sara Berniker
Supervisor: Michael Epp
Thesis: Writing is Dangerous: Exploring Creativity and the Other in Stephen King's Fiction, 2009
Jessica Bosnell
Supervisor: Sally Chivers
Internship:
Amy Bowen
Supervisor: Michael Epp
Internship: Public Texts and Facilitating Positive Action: The GreenUP Column Article
Stefanie Bradley
Supervisor: Michael Epp
Major Research Paper: An Iconoclastic Journalistic Persona: Robertson Davies and the Diaries of Samuel Marchbanks, 2009
Marilyn Burns
Supervisor: Suzanne Bailey
Major Research Paper
Amanda Cannella
Supervisor: Sally Chivers
Research Creation: Tales from the CRPS-Keeper: A Journey into the Contested Communicability of the Self-in-Pain, 2021
Jessica Carter
Supervisor: Rita Bode
Internship: From Text to Public: Literary Press Publishing in Canada and Canadian Cultural Identity
Mariana Castelli Rosa
Supervisor: Sally Chivers
Internship: Unravelling (Perceptions of) Brazil in the Manuscripts of P.K.’s Brazilian Journal
Scott Cecchin
Supervisor: Margaret Steffler
Thesis: "Literary Polyphony in the Poems of Robert Bringhurst"
Nelly Chen
Supervisor: Margaret Steffler
Internship: Public Advocacy: From Text to Action, 2008
Amanda Chernawski
Supervisor: Margaret Steffler
MRP: The Education of Alice in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and in Victorian Society: Learning to Reason and to Resist
Ross Chiasson
Supervisor: Kelly McGuire
Thesis: "All I’ve Found is Pain and Terror: Aesthetics and Moral Status in Contemporary Popular Narratives"
Trent University 3MT 2017: Provost's People's Choice Award Winner
Christina Chu
Supervisor: Kelly McGuire
Major Research Paper:
Ian Clark
Supervisor: Kelly McGuire
Internship:
Kimberley Conroy
Supervisor: Zailig Pollock
Internship: Coding, Editing, and the Digital Page Project
Emily Crawford
Supervisor: Rita Bode
MRP: Art Reflects Life Reflects Art: An Exploration of the Impact of Community Theatre, 2020
Sarah Curd
Supervisor: Zailig Pollock
Internship: The Abject Body in John Fawcett’s Ginger Snaps, 2016
Evelyn Deshane
Supervisor: Charmaine Eddy
Thesis: Flesh Made Real: The Production, Reception, and Interpretation of Transgender Narratives, 2013
Taylor Dobbs
Supervisor: Stephen Brown
Thesis: Tempests and Tangles: Teasing out the Complexities of Gender through Shakespeare and Drag, 2022
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
Alexandre Dugas
Supervisor: Joanne Findon
Thesis: Hibernian Imagination: A Study of Ireland’s Violent Cultural Imaginary through Writing, Music, and Film, 2021
Samantha Elmsley
Supervisor: Sally Chivers
MRP: Public monuments? A case study of the Halifax Memorial Tower, 2015
Alicia Fahey
Supervisors: Leonard Conolly and Elizabeth Popham
Thesis: Sheila Watson's The Double Hook (a critical edition) , 2011
Natalie Forest
Supervisor: Rita Bode
Thesis: Sister Texts: The Anxieties of Adapting Jane, 2012
James Forrester
Supervisor: Michael Epp
MRP: Dickens Comes to Lakefield
Sara Gallagher
Supervisor: Michael Epp
Thesis: The Cold War and the Birth of the Beat Generation
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
Hunter Haig
Supervisor: Margaret Steffler
Internship: Morning Rain Publishing: Striving to be Public
Sara Hailstone
Supervisor: Michael Epp
MRP: Hidden Springs By: Jenny O’Hara Pincock
Patricia Harte-Maxwell
Supervisor: Kelly McGuire
Internship: Developments and Fractures in Health Humanities
Shahira Hathout
Supervisor: Suzanne Bailey
Thesis: "Educating the Passions: Human Reincarnation, Moral Reformation and Redemption in Wuthering Heights"
David Headley
Supervisor: Hugh Hodges
Thesis: Dialed back: the audience learns to listen up!
Karen Heffernan Cummings
Supervisor: Margaret Steffler
Thesis: From Reading to Reality: The Girl Public's Response to Post-Millennial Girl Fiction, 2013
Katherine Heigh-Roper
Supervisor: Rob WInger
Research Creation: Our Lady of the Highways, 2022
Karen Hicks
Supervisor: Michael Epp
Major Research Paper: How does the character of its public determine the tone and content of Rebel Media and Fox News?, 2021
Erin Holtz Braeckman
Supervisor: Margaret Steffler
Thesis: The Return to "The Child": Nature, Language and the Sensing Body in the Poetry of Mary Oliver, 2013
Melissa Hudson
Supervisor:Rita Bode
Internship: Davies Project
Jennifer Hunter
Supervisor: Michael Epp
Internship: 4th Line Theatre
Aishwarya Javalgekar
Supervisor: Suzanne Bailey
Internship: Finding the Postfeminist Gothic in Contemporary Canadian Commercial Fiction
Thomas Jenkins
Supervisor: Hugh Hodges
Thesis: Run Come Rally: Rastafari Texts and the Creation of Publics in Post-Colonial Jamaica, 2011
Lindsey Jeremiah
Supervisor: Sally Chivers
Internship: The Triangulation of Dracula, Jack the Ripper, and Germ Theory
Cait P. Jones
Supervisor: Michael Epp
Thesis: “A City is Not a Place of Origins”: Mapping Black Queer Identity in the Work of Dionne Brand and James Baldwin
Heather Kerr
Supervisor: Michael Epp
Major Research Paper: Print, Portraiture, and Performance: Forming the Public Text of Elizabeth I
Sarah Kastner
Supervisor: Hugh Hodges
Thesis: Writing Against Possession: Archiving Yvonne Vera, and the Obedience Manuscript, 2012
Ewa Krynski
Supervisor: Orm Mitchell
Internship: Biography: At the Crossroads of Fact and Fiction, 2009
Natalie Krzywiecki
Supervisor: Charmaine Eddy
Internship Paper: "And in the process they both inscribe a vision of home": The Significance of Female Epistolary Networks in the Reclamation of Identity for Nineteenth-Century Female Immigrants
Emily Ann Lamond
Supervisor: Zailig Pollock
Internship: The Cultural and Social Benefits of Community Theatre, 2009
Eric Lehman
Supervisor: Hugh Hodges
Thesis: The Songs We Share (and the Records We Steal): Music and Shoplifting in an Age of Digital Piracy
Lesley Liu
Supervisor: Zailig Pollock
Thesis: Reconceptualizing Digital Reading: E-Book Readers in a Technological Era
Deborah Luchuk
Supervisor: Suzanne Bailey
Major Research Paper: Is the Higher Education Textbook Dead? Or are the Rumours of its Demise Just That?, 2021
Laurie MacKenzie
Supervisor: Elizabeth Popham
Internship: Keeping Up With the Joneses: The Role of Digital Paratexts in Trade Publishing, 2013.
Michael MacKenzie
Supervisor: Joel Baetz
MRP: Fleshing Out Peter Pan Over a Century of Desiring Embodiment, 2022
Kate MacNeill
Supervisor: Rob Winger
Research Creation: O, 2021
Tyler Majer
Supervisor: Stephen Brown
Thesis: The Great Liberation (or Standing Up, Laying Down) Written with respect and reverence to Paul Mooney, Norm Macdonald, and Gilbert Gottfried, 2022
Arma Malik
Supervisor: Hugh Hodges
Internship:
Laurenne Mandel
Supervisor: Michael Epp
Internship: Outside the Lines: A Look at the Marketing and Sales of the Colouring Book Fad in Comparison to Traditional Book sales
James McClelland
Supervisor: Michael Epp
Thesis: Of Icons and Myths: Interpretative Positions in Jack Kerouac's On the Road and the Early Photograph of Allen Ginsberg
Elizabeth McIntosh
Supervisor: Michael Epp
Thesis: Phantoms of Mars: Myth and American Mars Narratives
Rachel McLean
Supervisor: Margaret Steffler
Internship: “Another, Invisible World”: Illustrating the Children’s Literature of P.K. Page
Emma McTavish
Supervisor: Sally Chivers
Internship: I Got 99 Problems but Digitization Ain’t One: An Exploration of the Digitization of Scholarly Journals
Elena Merrill
Supervisor: Margaret Steffler
Thesis: "To Keep the Thread Unbroken": Connecting the Public and Private Life-Writing of P. K. Page, 2013
Callie Metler
Supervisor: Margaret Steffler
Thesis: Autobiographical Graphics: reading the queer “I” in women’s life writing
Amanda Miller
Supervisor: Zailig Pollock
Internship: Mapping E-Text, Texturing Screen: E-Reader as Paratext and the Emerging Identities of E-Books, 2011
Sarah Miller
Supervisor: Sarah Keefer
Thesis: THE BATTLE OF MALDON: A MEDIEVAL SCREENPLAY. History and Heroism in the Cinematic Adaptation of an Old English Poem, 2013
Sarah Milner
Supervisor: Sally Chivers
Thesis: The Composite Frankenstein: the Man, the Monster, the Myth
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
Travis Morton
Supervisor: Stephen Brown
Thesis: Play Theory: Games, Roles and Ritual Space
David Newland
Supervisor: Suzanne Bailey
MRP: Paper Nation: Conceiving Canada in the Confederation Day Globe, 2022.
Kelsea O’Connor
Supervisor: Zailig Pollock
Internship: Author vs. Publisher: Engagement, Publics, and Participatory Culture on Social Media
Cindy Pang
Supervisor: Sally Chivers
Internship: In Defence of Self-Publishing: A study of the independent publishing industry and its effects on traditional publishers
Sarah Perkins
Supervisor: Kelly McGuire
Thesis: Ripe for the Taking: Disrupting Narratives of a Queer Utopia in the Alpha/Beta/Omega Fanfiction Gift Economy, 2022
Gabriella Peters
Supervisor: Stephen Brown
Thesis: Uplifting Her Voice: Reimaging Lavinia from Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, 2022
Elisabeth Pfeiffer
Supervisor: Elizabeth Popham
Thesis: “Non-compliance” in the system: Bitch Planet’s satirical representations of race and gender constructs, 2022
Janette Platana
Supervisor: Hugh Hodges
Thesis: Punk as Public, Punks as Texts: Some Of This Is True
Megan Polley
Supervisor: Michael Epp
Internship: Making the Brand: Understanding Authors through Digital Media, 2011
Lauralee Proudfoot
Supervisor: Joanne Findon
Major Research Paper: A Public In-Between: Publishing Fiction for Emerging Adults, 2009
Margaret Pugh
Supervisor: Kelly McGuire
Internship:
Elizabeth Ramsay
Supervisor: Beth Popham
Thesis: "Women as Gifts and the Triple Hecate Myth in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, Antony and Cleopatra, and Cymbeline"
Cynthia Rankin
Supervisor: Margaret Steffler
Thesis: The Final Makeover, Deindividualization of Women in Contemporary Death Notices, 2022
Natasha Regehr
Supervisor: James Neufeld
Internship: Singing to the Choir: Community Interactions with Choral Texts, 2011
Sandra Robinson
Supervisor: Sally Chivers and Kelly McGuire
MRP: Whose Narrative Is It, Anyway? Mediated Life-Stories in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night and David Chariandy’s Soucouyant: A Novel of Forgetting
Samuel Rowland
Supervisor: Michael Epp
Thesis: Stop Making Sense: Subjective Dissonance and Synaesthesia in Young Adult and Children's Fiction
Matthew Ryan
Supervisor: Michael Epp
Major Research Paper : The Harvard Classics: Self-Education and Private Property
Jacob Saltiel
Supervisor: Zailig Pollock
Internship: Back to the Future: E-Publishing and the Future of Magazine Fiction
Magdelena Samulski
Supervisor: Rita Bode
Internship: “Clarington Clothing” and the Reading of Fashion: A Textual Investigation of Dress as Cultural and Historical Artifact
Katelynn Schoop
Supervisor: Michael Epp
Thesis: "Hearts Ripe, Brains Aglow": Narrative, Subjectivity, and Feeling in Post-Postmodernism, 2009
Andrew Scrofano
Supervisor: Suzanne Bailey
Major Research Paper: The Fictional Victorian Detective: An Embodiment of Nineteenth-Century British Anxieties Concerning Privacy and Surveillance
Hamidreza Seifollahi
Supervisor: Beth Popham
Thesis: "The lion and the fox: Machiavellian strategy in Tamburlaine the Great and Richard II"
Amelia Shortt
Supervisor: Joanne Findon
Internship: On the Nature of the Gods: Adaptations of Myth in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods and Trends in Contemporary Publishing, 2022
Amanda Siddall
Supervisor: Zailig Pollock
Internship: The Death of the Traditional Editor, 2011
Stephanie Small
Supervisor: Zailig Pollock
Internship: Re-calling Hypertext: Redefining Hypertextual Editing in the E-Book Age, 2011
Charlotte Smith
Supervisor: Zailig Pollock
Major Research Paper: "The Same Pen”: the Intersection of Art and Literature in the Works of P. K. Page, 2011
Sarah Smith-Eivemark
Supervisor: Zailig Pollock
Internship:Public Privates: Sex, the Media, and Weinergate
Candace Snoddon
Supervisor: Suzanne Bailey
Internship: Uncovering The Canadian Crusoes: From Nineteenth Century Cloth Bindings to Twenty-First Century Repair
Liam St. John
Supervisor: Stephen Brown
Internship: To Sell or Not to Sell?: The ethical dilemmas of a profit-based passion, 2021
Caelin Sullivan
Supervisor: Sally Chivers
MRP: The Emergence of Post-Closet Narratives in Young Adult Literature, 2022
Liam Sullivan
Supervisor: Michael Epp
MRP: Seven Seconds without Restraint: A Study on the Social Media Platform of Vine, 2020
Kaitlyn Sykes
Supervisor: Margaret Steffler
Internship: Technology Across the Ages: A Study of Recent Changes in Canadian Higher Education Publishing, 2015
based on an internship at John Wiley and Sons Canada
Christopher Taylor
Supervisor: Joanne Findon
Internship: Depicting the Struggles of Sir Gawain: Bringing Medieval Themes to the Modern Screen, 2022
Stephanie Tyler
Supervisor: Sarah Keefer
Thesis: The Outsider in Anglo-Saxon Literature: Geographical Boundaries and Concepts of "Otherness", 2010
Lina Vermeer
Supervisor: RIta Bode
Thesis: The Affective Power of Intimacy: A Case Study of a Men’s Hockey Real Person Fan Fiction’s Literary and Social Contexts, 2022
Amanda Van der Wey
Supervisor: Lewis MacLeod
Thesis: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: Shifting Centres, Margins, and Publics
Meghan Visser
Supervisor: Joel Baetz
Thesis: "Using the Same Language, but Meaning Different Things: A Textual Investigation of the Shared Rhetorics of the National and Poetic Narratives of First World War Britain"
Matthew Wincherauk
Supervisor: Beth Popham
Thesis: The Students’ Bell Tower: The legacy of the University of Regina’s The Carillon in the Digital Age