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
