Nooshin Aghayan
BA.Sc (Bu Ali Sina, Iran), MA (Tehran, Iran), PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Jonathan Bordo
Dissertation: Instabilities in the Identity of an Artistic Tradition as "Persian," “Islamic," and “Iranian” in the Shadow of Orientalism
Mark Allwood
BA, MA, PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Jonathan Bordo
Dissertation: Landscape and its Discontents - Art and Ruins, a Critical Topography in Word and Image
Chad Andrews
BA, MA (Brock), PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Veronica Hollinger
Dissertation: The Technology of Consent: American Science Fiction and Cultural Crisis in the 1980s
Jane Affleck
BFA (NSCAD), BA (Dalhousie), MA (Concordia), PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Veronica Hollinger
Dissertation: Making Mockeries, Making Connections: The “Revolutionary Potential” of Parody in Twenty-First Century Art and Literature
Tanya Bailey
BA (Toronto), MBA. (Florida), MA (Ryerson)
Supervised by Michael Epp
Dissertation: Three Dorothies: Women, Car Culture and the Impacts of War in the Gendering of the Automobile 1908-1921
Jessica Becking
BA (Toronto), MA (Kingston, England), PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Jonathan Bordo
Dissertation: Tending to Place from Here to There: Studies in the Place-work of Aesthetic Chorography
Jeremy Bell
BA (Carleton), MA, PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Jonathan Bordo
Dissertation: Eros noir: Transgression in the Aesthetic Anthropology of Georges Bataille, Hans Bellmer, and Pierre Klossowski
Troy Bordun
BA (Toronto), MA (Brock), PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Davide Panagia
Dissertation: Genre Trouble and Extreme Cinema
Richard Cousins
BA, MA (Ottawa), PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Michael Epp
Dissertation: Cartoons Ain't Human: Reflections on the Uses and Meanings of Anthropomorphism in Mid-Twentieth Century American Animated Shorts
Rachel Cyr
BA, MA (Concordia), PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Ihor Junyk
Dissertation: From Negation to Affirmation: Witnessing the Empty Tomb in the Era of Forensic Scientific Testimony
Cameron Ellis
BA (Guelph), MA (Brock), PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Veronica Hollinger
Dissertation: Abject Utopianism and Psychic Space: An Exploration of a Psychological Progress Toward Utopia in the Work of Samuel R. Delany and Julia Kristeva
Katie Green
BA, MA (Guelph), PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Alan O'Connor
Dissertation: Finding Space, Making Place: Understanding the Importance of Social Space to Local Punk Communities
Laura Greenwood
BA (Queen's), MA, PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Alan O'Connor
Dissertation: The Anarchist Periodical Press in the United States: An Intertextual Study of Prison Blossoms, Free Society, and The Demonstrator
Kelly Dorothea Hines
BA (York), MA, PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Veronica Hollinger
Dissertation: Untitled (dissertation 4.2)
Hazal Goktas
BA (Koç, Turkey), MA (Sabanci, Turkey), PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Nael Bhanji & Joshua Synenko
Dissertation: Contemporary Discourses About Trans Women: The Making of the “Transgender Predator”
Shahira Hathout
BA, MA, PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Michael Epp
Dissertation: "Re-membering" a Disappearing Coast: A Diffractive Reading of Lyme Regis between Persuasion and the Anthropocene"
Moritz Ingwersen
BA, MA (Cologne, Germany), PhD (Trent & Cologne, Germany)
Supervised by Veronica Hollinger & Hanjo Berressem
Dissertation: All Things Fusible: Media, Science, and Mythology in the Fiction of Neal Stephenson
Gregory Kalyniuk
BA (York), MA (Leuven, Belgium), PhD (Trent)
Supervised by David Holdsworth
Dissertation: Individuation, Intensity, and Humour: A Series of Explorations Into Deleuze's Philosophy
Gozde Kilic
BA (Baskent, Turkey), MA (Brock), PhD (Trent)
Supervised by James Penney
Dissertation: "Society Doesn't Exist": The Breakdown of Paternal Authority and the Illegitimate Origins of (Post) Oedipal Society
Jeremy Leipert
BA, MA (Calgary), PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Davide Panagia
Dissertation: On Tilt: The Inheritance and Inheritors of Digital Games
Matthew Lilko
BA, MA (Western), PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Alan O'Connor
Dissertation: A Sociolegal Mediation of Rave Sound System Technologies
Mir Mahdavi
BA (Imam Khomeini, Iran), MDiv (Qom, Iran), M.A. (McMaster), PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Hugh Hodges
Dissertation: Speaking of Being: Poetry as the Psychoanalysis of presence; From Language to Lalanguge
Amalia Makkar
BA, MA, PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Jonathan Bordo
Dissertation: Mythopoeia Sylvatica: A Critical Topographical Exploration of the Once and Future Forests of North America through Six Witness Trees
Dilyana Mincheva
BA, MA (Sofia, Bulgaria), PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Davide Panagia
Dissertation: The Politics of Muslim Intellectual Discourse in the West: the Emergence of a Western-Islamic Public Sphere
Kevin Mitchell
BA (Winnipeg), MA (Brock), PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Alan O'Connor
Dissertation: The Transcendental Turn: Kant's Critical Philosophy, Contemporary Theory, And Popular Culture
Madison Moore
BA, MA (York)
Supervised by Michael Epp
Dissertation: "When I'm Looking at the World...I Take a Photo": An Exploration of the Affectual and Social Complexities of Sharing and Seeing Images in Youth Digital Culture
Hoa Nguyen
BA, MA (Vietnam National, Vietnam), PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Ian McLachlan
Dissertation: Politics of Memory: (Re) Construction of the Past in Post-Socialist Vietnam
Nick Overduin
BA (Trinity, Illinois), MDiv, ThM, (Calvin Theological Seminary), PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Jonathan Bordo
Dissertation: At the Intersection Between History and Fiction in Biography and Autobiography; A Repositioning, Using the Quest for the Historical Jesus as a Case Study
Anhiti Patnaik
BA, MA (Delhi, India), PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Jonathan Bordo
Dissertation: Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics of Murder: Jack the Ripper to Dorian Gray
Joanna Perkins
BA, MA (Brock), PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Veronica Hollinger
Dissertation: A Pedagogy of Renaturalization: Moving Through and Beyond Intellectual Slut Shaming
Alexander Pershai
BA (Belarus), MA (Jacob's, Germany), PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Ihor Junyk
Dissertation: The Nationalist Discourse in Post-Socialist Belarus: Dilemmas of Nationalism Theories and Local Intellectual Context
Jacob Potempski
BA (Trent), MA (Amsterdam, Netherlands), PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Emilia Angelova
Dissertation: Time, Being, and the Image
Avishek Ray
BA, MA (Jadavpur, India), PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Ihor Junyk
Dissertation: Archaeology of Vagabondage: South Asia's Colonial Encounter and After
Duane Rousselle
BA, MA (New Brunswick - Fredericton), PhD (Trent), PhD (ABD European Graduate School)
Supervised by Charmaine Eddy
Dissertation: Lacanian Realism
Francois Svenbro
BA, MA (Paris, France), MA (Ottawa), PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Ihor Junyk
Dissertation: For the Road. Towards a definition of Counterculture
Parviz Talibli
BA (Azerbaijan State Economic University), MSc (Sheffield, England), PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Ihor Junyk
Dissertation: A Cultural History of the Book Cover
Matthew Tegelberg
BA, MA (York), PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Elizabeth Ermarth
Dissertation: Framing Maya Culture: Tourism, Representation and the Case of Quetzaltenango
Laura Thursby
BA, MA (Toronto), PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Veronica Hollinger
Dissertation: Alien Imaginaries: Tracing the Extraterrestrial in the United States of America
Amy Jane Vosper
BA, BSc (Trent), MA (Carelton), PhD (Trent)
Supervised by Alan O'Connor
Dissertation: Women in Horror: On the Screen, In the Scene, Behind the Screams
Alexey Zelenskiy
BA, MPhil (Al Farabi Kazakh, Kazakhstan), PhD (Trent)
Supervised by James Penney
Dissertation: The Breach, Digital Disruption, the Event: Psychoanalytic and Philosophic Critique of Embodiment