Graduate Director Professor Martin Danahay, email mdanahay@brocku.ca
Type of Program: This Program includes a preferred Major Research Paper option and is designed to be completed in twelve months. A thesis option is also available under exceptional circumstances, with approval of the Graduate Director. The Major Research Paper option requires six courses plus a Research Paper; the Thesis Option requires four courses plus a thesis.
Program length: Twelve months
The Field
As mutually informing concepts, the terms of our Field “text,” “community” and “discourse,” suggest the power of texts to reflect and to shape both communities of origin and communities of reception. The Program also focuses critical attention on the kinds of negotiation - both material and theoretical - attending the production, performance and reception of texts. Literary and textual problems acquire richer significance when viewed in relation to the ways in which texts, both literary and non-literary, are produced and used in the often conflicting discourses that constitute the culture of a community.
The field is strongly supported by the Department’s research expertise. Department members are currently actively researching the intersections of texts, communities and discourses in a wide range of areas.
Course Requirements
This Program includes a preferred Major Research Paper Option and is designed to be completed in twelve months. A thesis option is also available under exceptional circumstances, with approval of the Graduate Director.
Major Research Paper Option
All students are required to take the two core courses, ENGL 5P00 and 5P01. Major Research Paper students must take four additional courses, from the variable topics offerings.
Research Paper students will with the guidance of the Graduate Director arrange for a supervisor and a second reader and shall choose a topic in consultation with the supervisor, the second reader and the Graduate Director.
Thesis Option
All students are required to take the two core courses, ENGL 5P00 and 5P01. Thesis students take two additional courses, from the variable topics offerings.
A Thesis student may, with the permission of the Graduate Director, arrange for a thesis supervisor; the student and the supervisor will, with a supervisory committee appointed by the Graduate Director, choose a thesis topic.
The Courses
Offerings
There are two required courses, ENGL 5P00, “Theoretical Foundations,” and ENGL 5P01, “Graduate Seminar in Research and Professional Development.” With the permission of the Graduate Director a student may take a course from one of the other MA programs in the university or a reading course/tutorial (ENGL 5P02) in place of a course from the variable topics list (“5V—” courses).
Fall and Winter Term 2007-2008:
Fall Term 2007-2008:
In this term the students will with the assistance of the Graduate Director secure their Research Paper supervisor and second reader and begin preliminary work on their project.
ENGL 5P00 — “Theoretical Foundations” Professor Tim Conley
Survey and critical analysis of a broad range of theories bearing on the relation of literary texts to cultural formations.
ENGL 5P01 — “Graduate Seminar in Research and Professional Development” Professor Martin Danahay
Topics such as the nature and requirements of academic work, research methodologies, research resources, the nature and requirements of the graduate thesis and research paper, the development of the research proposal, focused discussion of research and design strategies for the work proposed, the development of and adherence to a schedule, preparation of conference proposals and public presentations.
ENGL 5P02 — “Graduate Tutorial”
Research course with directed study and regular meetings with a faculty member, covering topics not offered in a designated course. Requires permission of the Graduate Director.
ENGL5V51 — “Women Writing Genealogy in Recent Canadian Fiction” Professor Neta Gordon
Exploring discursive frameworks for the relationship between principles governing conceptions of family and the narration of a family's story in the work of authors such as SKY Lee, Carol Shields, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Dionne Brand, and Barbara Gowdy.
ENGL 5V70 — “King Arthur in Popular Fiction and Culture for Young People” Professor Ann Howey
Examination of discursive practices used in literature and popular culture to rewrite the Arthurian legend for young people. After beginning with selections from Malory and Tennyson, we will study primarily twentieth-century novels and films to consider issues of narrative address and audience; censorship and appropriate content; socialization and gender roles.
Winter Term 2007-2008:
In this term the students will register in their Research Paper course and begin work on the paper itself.
ENGL 5V22 — “Jane Austen: Competing Communities” Professor Barbara Seeber
The complete works of Austen in the context of literary histories and contemporary approaches focusing on gender, sexuality, and empire.
ENGL 5V81 — “The Politics of Language: Authority, Consensus and the Standard ” Professor Jaclyn Rea
Examination of ideologies of language as they operate in complex and varied locales. Study of how commonsense beliefs about Standard English might cooperate with larger discourses of colonialism, nationalism, gender, race and morality.
Summer Term 2008:
In this term students complete their Research Paper.
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