NOTICEBOARD

Canadian Literature class will be held in Room G315 as of Week 2.

THESES INFO

My capacity as a thesis supervisor for 2012/13 has run out. Please contact one of my colleagues if you're looking for one. Thank you.

I welcome B.A. and M.A. thesis proposals preferably in the following areas:

  • Canadian Studies (comparative studies of Canada and the USA are welcome too),
  • Canadian literature in general,
  • Black Canadian and African-American literatures,
  • ethnic literatures in Canada and the USA,
  • postcolonial literatures,
  • Beat literature,
  • literature and film of the Vietnam War, etc.

I don't usually take on more than five students, so if you would like to write a thesis under my supervision, contact me at the end of the term preceding your final year.

TOPIC PROPOSALS:
  • "Erase the nations!": Postnationalism in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient
  • Variations of blackness in Austin Clarke's fiction
  • Amistad: movie vs. historical truth
  • Escape from civilization in American literature/film
  • The power of storytelling in Lawrence Hill's Someone Knows My Name
  • The motif of madness in the fiction on the Canadian North
  • Landscape as a protagonist in Sinclair Ross's short fiction

Courses in summer term 2011/2012

(P) AmLit 2 (1mp, 1mu)

(PV) Practical English 2 (1bu)

(PV) CanLit: From the National to the Post-National (mp, mu)