Teaching

 

Supervisions | Courses

Supervisions: Graduate and Honours Students Supervised and Committees
(* indicates current)

*Sunny Chan

MA: "Asian North American and Diasporic  Writing" (Co-supervisor with C. Lee, 2011)

*Katrina Lo

MA: "Canadian Dictionary  Language Studies" (Thesis Committee member, 2011)

*Grant Hurley

MA: "Vancouver Poetry Society 1916-1974."  (2011 Thesis supervisor)

*Charity Matthews

PhD English - Canadian Literature, "19th Century Transatlantic Natural History."  (Supervisor)

*Genevieve Gagne-Hawes

PhD English – British and South Asian Literature
Diss: "Raj Nostalgia - Fictional Heritage, Popular Politics?: Exploring British [Post]-Imperial Identity, 1857-1990" (Supervisor)

*Monica Brown

PhD English - Rhetoric/ Globalization (Committee)
Diss: “The Health of Citizenship: Examining the Rhetoric of Global Change in Responses to SARS and H1N1”  (Committee)

Maia Joseph

PhD English – Canadian Urban Writing
Diss: "Urban Change and the Literary Imaginary in Vancouver, 1986-2010." (Committee)

Paul Watkins

MA: Canadian Literature: "Voice in Text: Translating Orality in Robert Bringhurst's A Story as Sharp as a Knife, Harry Robinson's Write It On Your Heart, and War Party's The Reign." (Thesis Committee, defended 2010)

James Phelan

MA: American Literature:  “Philip Roth”  (Thesis Committee, defended 2010)

Kathryn Grafton

PhD English: Globalization, Blogs, Genre Theory, and Canadian Literature
Diss: "Paying Attention to Public Readers of Canadian Literature: Popular Genre Systems, Publics, and Canons" (Supervisor, defended 2010)

Stephen Ney

PhD English - Nigerian Literature and Christianity
Diss: “Ancestor, Book, Church: How Nigerian Literature Responds to Missionary Christianity” (Committee, Defended 2010)

Christine Lyons

PhD English - Canadian Literature (Supervisor, withdrew 2010)

Julie Okot Bitek

MA: Edwidge Danticat  (Thesis Committee, defended 2009)

Amanda Rheume

MA: Political Women’s Biographies (Thesis Committee, defended 2009)

Jennifer Delisle

PhD English - Diasporic and Canadian Literatures
Diss: “Newfoundland Diaspora.” (Supervisor, defended May 2008).

Mark Deegan

PhD English - Modernism and the Sublime (Pro tem committee to 2008)

Mossarap Khan

PhD English - South Asian Literature post-Rushdie (Supervisor, withdrew 2008)

Carolye Kutcha

MA: Canadian Love Stories (Committee, defended 2008)

Travis Mason

PhD English - “Ornithology Of Desire: Birding in the Ecotone and the Poetry of Don McKay” (Committee, defended 2007)

Deanna Reder

PhD English - Diss: “Acimisowin as Theoretical Practice: Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition In Canada” (Committee, defended 2007)

Sofie Cold-Ravnkilde

MA Comparative Literature- Danish Postcolonialism (Supervisor, defended 2004)

Duffy Roberts

MA English - Naming Canadian Literature (Supervisor, defended 2004)

Terri Tomsky

PhD English - South Asian-Partition Narratives  (Pro tem committee to 2005)

Michelle
LaFlamme

PhD English - Writing Mixed Race in Canada. (Pro tem committee to 2004)

Lisa Muirhead

U of Manitoba: MA English- South Asian Partition Narratives (2002, Thesis Supervisor)

Amy Kroeker

U of Manitoba: MA English- Mennonite Canadian Literature (2001, Thesis Supervisor)

Daniel Van Wyk

Graduating Honours Essay supervisor 2008: Language and Place: Sloughs and Dams 

Aisha Haque

Graduating Honours Essay supervisor 2006: Bhangra Dance and Scottish Film  

Ben Wagler

Graduating Honours Essay supervisor 2006: Postcolonial Curious George

Nicole Maunsell

Arts Faculty Co-op  (Harbour Publishing)

Kate Brindley

Graduating Honours Essay supervisor 2005: South African Literature

Deanna Borren

Graduating Honours Essay supervisor 2004: Postcolonial Literature

 


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