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As part of our program requirements, students write their Major Research Paper (MRP) on a topic of their choice under the supervision of our professors. The MRP topics are as diverse as our students! Here are some of our students' research paper titles.
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Read some of the most recent ones here: Recherche uO Research: Modern Languages and Literatures - Research Papers (uottawa.ca)
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2020/2021
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ALUMA-BAIGENT, Alia. Crytpo: Art, Currency, and Capital. 2021.
AZOULAY, Stephanie.
AZZI, Amanda. Little Girl: The Weaponization of Infantilized and Roboticized (Hyper)Femininity in Postwar Japanese Popular Culture. 2021.
CYBANSKI, Kara. Out of the Closet and onto the Bookshelf: Lesbian Liberation in Elena Fortún's Oculto Sendero. 2021.
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ENEGELA, Amada Faith.
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HUGHES-WALDICK, Zoë. The Testimonio Effect in Slash and Burn: Representing the Voices of Women in War. 2021.
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2019/2020
JURDI, Erika. Representations of Labour, Race, and Orientalism in Tale of a Certain Orient and Blackbodying. 2020.
PILON, Marylene. Exhibits of Truth and Reconciliation: Creating Empathetic Spaces for Indigenous Narratives in Canada. 2020.
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RAHMAN, Elena. The Arab Canadian Identity Interculturalism, Trauma, and Identity Metamorphosis in Cockroach and Sabah. 2020.
ZHAO, Zixuan. Remembering the Algerian War: Trauma, Women, Diaspora and Aftermath in Cartouches Gauloises, Hors La Loi and The Battle of Algiers. 2020.​
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2018/2019
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PELLERIN PETROVA, Anna. Après le rideau de fer : le paradoxe du cinéma postcommuniste bulgar. 2019.​
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2017/2018
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MUCHA, Matthew. Her (Sub)version of History: The Works of Carmen Guerrero Nakpil. 2018.
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ROKOLJ, Téa. Many a Footnote and Afterword: Dubravka Ugrešić and the Essay. 2018.