Upcoming & Past Defences
Upcoming Defences
To be announced
Past Defences
2024
Nikhil Jayadevan, PhD Candidate
Comedy and Satire Against Cynical Withdrawal
Wednesday, August 28th, 2024
Examining Committee:
Dr. Sean Zwagerman (Associate Professor, English, SFU), supervisor
Dr. Diana Solomon (Associate Chair and Undergraduate Program Chair; Associate Professor, English, SFU), committee member
Dr. Jeff Derksen (Professor, English, SFU), committee member
Dr. Alessandra Capperdoni (Undergraduate Chair, Lecturer, Department of Humanities, SFU) internal-external examiner
Dr. Raúl Pérez (Associate Professor, Sociology, University of LaVerne), external examiner
Dr. Matthew Hussey (Graduate Program Chair, Associate Professor English, SFU) defence chair
Rachel Bodnariuc, PhD Candidate
Postsecularism, Calvinism, and the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Anglo American Novel
Wednesday, July 10th, 2024
Examining Committee:
Dr. Michael Everton (Associate Professor, English, SFU), supervisor
Dr. Margaret Linley (Associate Professor, English), committee member
Dr. Mark Knight (Professor in Literature, Religion, and Victorian Studies, Head of Department, English and Creative Writing Department, Lancaster University), committee member
Dr. Luke Clossey (Associate Professor, History, SFU), internal-external examiner
Dr. Charles LaPorte (Professor, Englishh, University of Washington), external examiner
Cole Mash, PhD Candidate
Words Go Past There’: Reading and Pedagogy of Mediatized Spoken Word Poetry
Thursday, May 30th, 2024
Examining Committee:
Dr. Stephen Collis, Professor, SFU English, senior supervisor
Dr. Jeff Derksen, Professor, SFU English and Dean and Associate Provost, SFU Graduate Studies, committee member
Dr. Constance Crompton, Assistant Professor, Communication, uOttawa, committee member
Dr. Hannah McGregor, Director & Associate Professor, Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology, internal-external examiner
Dr. Lillian Allen, Professor, Liberal Arts & Sciences, OCAD, external examiner
2023
Jorji Temple, PhD Candidate
Articulated Love: Neoliberalism and the Romantic Couple in Popular Culture
Friday, December 15, 2023
Examining Committee:
Dr. Stephen Collis, Professor, SFU English, senior supervisor
Dr. Jeff Derksen, Professor, SFU English and Dean and Associate Provost, SFU Graduate Studies, co-senior supervisor
Dr. Clint Burnham, Professor, SFU English, committee member
Dr. Eldritch Priest, Associate Professor, SFU Contemporary Arts, internal-external examiner
Dr. Will Straw, Professor, McGill University Art History and Communications Studies, external examiner
Yiwen Liu, PhD Candidate
Cold War Hong Kong: An Archipelagic Reading of Short Fictions During the Long Seventies
Thursday, September 14, 2023
Examining Committee:
Dr. Christine Kim, Associate Professor, UBC English, co-supervisor
Dr. Sophie McCall, Professor, SFU English, co-supervisor
Dr. Helen Leung, Professor, SFU GSWS, committee member
Dr. Christopher Lee, Associate Professor, UBC English, committee member
Dr. Nadine Attewell, Associate Professor, SFU GSWS, internal external examiner
Dr. Chris Zijiang Song, Assistant Professor, U of T Dept of Language Studies, external examiner
Taylor Morphett, PhD Candidate
Writing Words and the Written Word: The University and Endemic Crisis
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Examining Committee:
Dr. Sean Zwagerman, Associate Professor, supervisor
Dr. Peter Cramer, Associate Professor, committee member
Dr. Michael Ling, Senior Lecturer, SFU Department of Education, committee member
Dr. Joel Heng Hartse, Senior Lecturer, SFU Department of Education, internal-external examiner
Dr. Heather Graves, Professor Emeritus of English and Film Studies, University of Calgary, external examiner
Ed Graham, PhD Candidate
Allegory and Intoxication: Mapping Social Reproductive Separation and the Crises of Capitalism in 2010s Addiction Narratives
Friday, March 31, 2023
Examining Committee:
Dr. Clint Burnham, Professor, supervisor
Dr. Carolyn Lesjak, Professor, supervisor
Dr. Margaret Linley, Professor
Dr. Samir Gandesha, Professor, Director of the SFU Institute for the Humanities
Dr. Alberto Toscano, Associate Professor, SFU Department of Communications, examiner
Dr. Caren Irr, Professor of Humanities, Brandeis University, external examiner
2021
Alois Sieben, PhD Candidate
Narrative Syncope: Search Results: The Subject of Google in 2010s Culture
Thursday, September 16, 2021
Examining Committee:
Dr. Matthew Hussey, Professor and Graduate Program Chair, Thesis Defence Chair
Dr. Clint Burnham, Professor
Dr. Margaret Linley, Professor
Dr. Stephen Collis, Professor
Dr. Todd McGowan, Professor, Department of English, The University of Vermont
Dr. Paul Kingsbury, Professor, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University
2020
Kimberly O'Donnell, PhD Candidate
Narrative Syncope: Affect, Ethics, and Fainting Men in Late-Victorian Novels
Friday, December 11, 2020
Examining Committee:
Dr. Clint Burnham, Professor and Graduate Program Chair, Thesis Defence Chair
Dr. Carolyn Lesjak, Associate Professor and Department of English Chair
Dr. Margaret Linley, Associate Professor
Dr. Michael Everton, Associate Professor
Dr. Peter Dickinson, Professor, Department of the Contemporary Arts
Dr. Christopher Keep, Professor, Department of English and Writing Studies, Western University
Melissa McGregor, PhD Candidate
Arduous Business: Immaterial Labour in the Victorian Realist Novel
Friday, December 4, 2020
Examining Committee:
Dr. Michael Everton, Professor, Thesis Defence Chair
Dr. Carolyn Lesjak, Associate Professor and Department of English Chair
Dr. Margaret Linley, Associate Professor
Dr. Clint Burnham, Professor and Department of English Graduate Chair
Dr. Lara Campbell, Professor, Department of GSWS
Dr. Nathan Hensley, Associate Professor, Department of English, Georgetown University
Carolyne Clare, PhD Candidate
Repertoires for Supporting Sovereignty: The Protocols for Native American Archival Materials and Dance Information in Vancouver
Monday, July 27, 2020
Examining Committee:
Dr. Peter Dickinson, Professor, School for the Contemporary Arts (senior supervisor)
Dr. Lisa Nathan, Associate Professor, School of Information, UBC
Dr. Allana Lindgren, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre, University of Victoria
Dr. Dara Culhane, Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology
Dr. Spencer Lilley, Te Putahi a Toi, Associate Professor, School of Maori Knowlege, Massey University
Alix Shield, PhD Candidate
Kwaskastahsowin ("Put things to right"): Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Indigenous Women's Writing, Editing, and Publishing in Canada
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Examining Committee:
Dr. Linda M. Morra, Professor, Department of English, Bishop's University
Dr. June Schudeler, Assistant Professor, Departments of Indigenous Studies & GSWS
Dr. Sophie McCall, Professor, Department of English
Dr. Carole Gerson, Professor Emerita, Department of English
Dr. Deanna Reder, Associate Professor, Departments of Indigenous Studies & English