English Language and Literature
This is the collection for the University of Waterloo's Department of English Language and Literature .
Research outputs are organized by type (eg. Master Thesis, Article, Conference Paper).
Waterloo faculty, students, and staff can contact us or visit the UWSpace guide to learn more about depositing their research.
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Digital Dialogism: Space, Time, and Queerness in Video Games
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-04)Video games are multimodal pieces of media; they communicate meaning through many layers of signification including aural, visual, narrative, mechanical, and more. To understand the ways that games communicate meaning and ... -
Rhetorical Figures in Music
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-01)This paper looks at rhetorical figures in music, focusing on figures within the chiastic suite. It argues for a cognitive provenance of these figures, accounting for their appearance in both literature and music. It looks ... -
Fictocritical Cyberfeminism: A Paralogical Model for Post-Internet Communication
(University of Waterloo, 2023-03-13)This dissertation positions the understudied and experimental writing practice of fictocriticism as an analog for the convergent and indeterminate nature of “post-Internet” communication as well a cyberfeminist technology ... -
Masks and Caricatures: Prosopopoeia, Ethopoeia, and the Effect of Social Media on Canadian Political Leaders’ Debates
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-20)This dissertation examines the recent effect of social media on televised political leaders’ debates through the lens of ethos. It features two case studies from two Canadian federal elections: the 2015 Maclean’s Leaders’ ... -
Alone Together - Convergence Culture and the Slender Man Phenomenon
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-10)This project engages in a close examination of the Slender Man phenomenon, an online practice in which a community of pseudonymous enthusiasts share scary stories featuring a faceless, long-limbed, humanoid monster in a ... -
Queen of the Academy: Academic Drag as Pedagogy and Praxis
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-22)Direct stories from and pedagogical representations of equity-denied and oppressed bodies remain largely missing from and kept out of the academy. And scholarship and scholarly gate-keepers across the academy – and especially ... -
Element Focused Inquiry: Air and Water in American Literature
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-12)Element focused inquiry, in dialogue with environmental-crisis literature, proposes a theory and a methodology to explore human-elemental becomings, particularly pertaining to air and water. EFI is mobilized to acquire ... -
Some Mysterious Resonance Between Thing and Language: On Contradiction and the Materialist Theologies of Cormac McCarthy and Marilynne Robinson
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-24)At first glance, the works of the contemporary American authors Marilynne Robinson and Cormac McCarthy look so distinctly unlike that they seem to represent opposing poles on a hypothetical literary spectrum. The fundamental ... -
The Pivot of Athwartedness: Roy Kiyooka's "Pacific Windows"
(Guernica, 2020)Published as a full issue of The Capilano Review in August 1990, Roy Kiyooka’s “Pacific Windows” exists on the periphery of Kiyooka’s canon. Despite the various ways in which this text could be considered the culmination ... -
Broadcasting a Performance of Caring: Social Justice and Migrant Narratives on the CBC's Canada Reads
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-24)My dissertation argues that migrant narratives are used to facilitate a Canadian performance of caring on the popular broadcast television and radio program Canada Reads. The program brings together popular culture and ... -
Ethical Tech Innovation: Uniting Educational Initiatives and Professional Practice
(Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2021-08)Engineers and other workers at the forefront of technological innovation play a central role in shaping the future of our digital economy, and the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed with stark clarity the urgent need for ethical ... -
Stories in Play: Narrative Formation in Sports and Esports
(University of Waterloo, 2021-11-11)Sports depend on narrative to function as media content, yet sports are difficult to narrativize because they are unpredictable. This project proposes a model for analyzing the narrative formation in sports broadcasts by ... -
“Sorry If My Words Aren’t Right”: Writing Studies’ Partnership with Second Language Writing to Support Translingual Students in the Anglo-Canadian Classroom
(University of Waterloo, 2021-11-02)Since the early 2000s, Canadian higher education has recognized the economic benefit of courting and enrolling visa students at higher tuition rates. Austerity measures in federal funding combined with falling domestic ... -
Black Frontiers: Race, Region, and Myth in African American Westerns, 1854-1954
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-04)Up until the 1960s the African American West remained largely unexamined in scholarship and, when examined, was marked for its historical absence or, as Eric Gardner notes, “limited to brief biographical asides focusing ... -
'The Objectifying Gaze': The Role of Adaptation in Perceptions of Gender on Television
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-06)For too long, adaptation studies has been limited to film and focused on adaptation as a product (i.e. the transformation of a novel into a film), but expanding the field to television and emphasizing the process of ... -
Telling the Stories, Branding the Land: Examining Regional Narratives and Texts in Northern Alberta
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-23)This ecocritical study analyzes literary works and narratives related to northern Alberta. It establishes correlations between the way the land, history, and culture have been represented in these buried texts and the ... -
THE MYTH OF DISENCHANTMENT: RELIGION AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE
(University of Waterloo, 2021-03-29)In the following project, I look closely at three living American writers whose work explores the important relations between the religious and ecocritical “turns” in American literature, with particular attention to ways ... -
J.S. Mill and John Paul II: Utilitarianism and Loving Your Neighbour
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-28)Jesus Christ’s Commandment to Love one’s neighbour as one’s self in Mark 12:28-31 plays a pivotal role in the social moral doctrine of nineteenth century philosopher John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism and of twentieth century ... -
Debasing Dissent: The Role of The News Media in the Devaluation of Black Canadian Activism
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-28)My dissertation examines the way that the Canadian news media delegitimizes anti-racist activism to contribute to the harmful national narratives of racial equality disseminated by the white Anglophone majority. I examine ... -
South Asian Muslim Americans as Model Minorities: Conflicted Identities in Mohsin Hamid and Ayad Akhtar
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-31)This thesis argues that Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced portray the struggles of South Asian Muslims in light of the model minority myth. The protagonists’ struggles for assimilation ...
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