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Research themes — Faculty of Arts

Research themes

Cultures and communities

Cultural studies, cultural history, cultural memory
Critical theory studies: aesthetics, art, linguistics, literature, film, political theory, philosophy
Communication and intercultural relations
Comparative cultural studies
Art history and history of intellectual currents

House in the middle of a lake.

Projects	Researcher	Department
Imprinting authority: literature, community, and settler legitimation in pre-confederation English Canada	Cynthia Sugars	ENG
Driving and impeding change: the competing roles of school, community and ideology	Shana Poplack	LIN
Experimental humanities: literature, pedagogy, utopia, 1768-1847	James Brooke-Smith	ENG
Librarian involvement in academic program reviews: investigating the faculty perspective using corpus-based methods	Lynne Bowker	ÉSI
Voicing and its transphonologization: the initiation and actuation of a sound change in Southeast Asia	Marc Brunelle	LIN
Incomplete questions in French: implications for the theory of ellipsis	Dennis Ott	LIN
Investigations on the theory of action nominals in highly nominalizing languages	Andrés Salanova	LIN
Clara Wieck-Schumann the composer	Julie Pedneault-Deslauriers	MUS
Jacques de Viterbe et ses critiques médiévaux	Antoine Côté	PHI
Les deux figures de l'idéalisme. Étude sur les usages philsophiques du terme "idéalisme" de 1702 à nos jours	Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel	PHI
Mean tweets: the impact of online harassment on political journalists in Canada	Elizabeth Dubois	CMN
On the origin of shpee-sheez: where do long-distance phonological processes come from?	Kevin McMullin	LIN

Francophone communities in a changing world

Linguistic contact
History and geography of Canadian Francophonie
Francophone literatures of Ontario, Québec and Africa
Teaching and learning of the French language
History of the French language
Québec cinema

Various books on a desk.

Projects	Researcher	Department
Les réseaux littéraires franco-canadiens: 1970-2010	Lucie Hotte	FRA
L'essai francophone africain: de la Négritude à l'afropolitanisme	Kasereka Kavwahirehi	FRA
Normes et pratiques linguistiques au Québec (1763-1914): mobilité, réseaux et alliances	France Martineau	FRA
Diversité, intégration et réconciliation: la conscience historique des mouvements de jeunesse francophones hors Québec devant le paradigme du postcolonialisme (1982 à aujourd'hui)	Michel Bock	HIS
L'espace d'un hôpital: les archives de l'Hôtel-Dieu d'Orléans (XIIIe-XVIe s.)	Kouky Fianu	HIS

Migration, rights and social justice

Refugee seeking and diaspora
Arctic sovereignty
Religious freedom
Past and present slavery
Gender and sexuality studies
Indigenous rights and land claims
Humanitarian interventions

Large group of people walking in a dry environment.

Projects	Researcher	Department
Illegal recruitment, the criminalization of Vietnamese workers, and the question of migrants in French Colonial Indochina, 1890-1940	Micheline Lessard	HIS
Canada`s 19th century Black Press: roots and trajectories of exceptional communication and intellectual activism	Boulou Ebanda de b'beri	CMN
Polish "Blue" Police, bystanders and the Holocaust in occupied Poland 1939-1945	Jan Grabowski	HIS
Activism along the global fringe: rogue lawyers, international law and africa's legal construction	Meredith Terretta	HIS
Leviers d'action contre l'âgisme au travail: une exploration du rôle du climat intergénérationnel	Martine Lagacé	CMN

Living in the context of diversity

Theatre of exile
Experiences of newcomers to Canada
Multicultural cities
Religious diversity
Canadian Jewish studies
Cinema of the Arab world
Immigrant health

Map of Gatineau-Ottawa.

Projects	Researcher	Department
Developing academic biliteracy: longitudinal case studies of learning to write in Canada's official languages	Jérémie Séror	ILOB
Political philosophy and the idea of religion	Sonia Sikka	PHI
Individual identity formation among Christians in late antiquity	Theodore de Bruyn	CLA
New Yiddish Cinema	Rebecca Margolis	LLM
Between migration and neo-nationalism(s): performing the European nation -- playing a foreigner	Yana Meerzon	THE
Understanding nonreligion in a complex future	Lori Beaman	CLA

Societies and environmental changes

Maritime transport in the Arctic
Oil sands and the media
Art and climate change
Environmental philosophy and history
Glaciology
Literature of the environment
Permafrost studies

Weather map.

Projects	Researcher	Department
A Tar Sands Tale: a critical study into the events and mediatized legacy surrounding the banned CBC docudrama "Tar Sands" and the holding power of fossil fuels over the social imagination	Patrick McCurdy	CMN
Evolution of North American ecosystems over the past 20,000 years	Konrad Gajewski	GEG
GO-Ice: glacier-ocean-iceberg dynamics in a changing Canadian arctic	Luke Copland	GEG
Impacts of climate change on pinch points for shipping in the Canadian arctic	Luke Copland	GEG
Mitigating arctic shipping risks through improved prediction of conditions leading to ship besetment in pressured ice: a case study in Hudson Strait	Jackie Dawson	GEG
Ground ice and biogeochemistry of permafrost: environmental consequences of permafrost degradation to a warmer-wetter climate.	Denis Lacelle	GEG
Characteristics and evolution of discontinuous permafrost in northern Canada at multiple spatial scales	Antoni Lewkowicz	GEG
Ice dynamics and cryospheric changes in northern Canada	Luke Copland	GEG

Indigenous cultures

Métis history and geography
Indigenous health
Indigenous religions
Spirituality and philosophy
Algonquin language
Indigenous broadcasting
Endangered languages
Indigenous education

Indigenous person (in black and white)

Projects	Researcher	Department
They are not like us: the emergence and convergence of prairie Metis kinscapes	Brenda Macdougall	GEG
Fur trade kinscapes: Lapointe, Wisconsin and the rise of a Great Lakes-St. Lawrence watershed, 1650-1850	Nicole St-Onge	HIS
Understanding Inuit community uses and needs for weather, water, ice, and climate information and services	Jackie Dawson	GEG

Well-being across the life course

uOttawa Living Lab: child language acquisition
Learning to play a musical instrument; language learning
Ageism
Environmental effects on maternal health
Children's literature
Intergenerational relations; needs of immigrant seniors
Health communication
Well-being in the workplace
Addiction treatment and dynamics

Researchers at the Living Lab.

Projects	Researcher	Department
i-CARE-PD / Integrated Parkinson Care Networks	Sylvie Grosjean	CMN
Enhancing the public's understanding of child development research: a museum-based approach	Tania Zamuner	LIN
Integrating prenatal environmental health education into clinical care in Canada: the PEHE study	Eric Crighton	GEG
Bilingualism and intellectual disabilities: the cognitive and metalinguistic abilities of Prader-Willi syndrome bilingual and monolingual speakers	Juana Munoz-Liceras	LLM
Does proficiency in piano and violin playing translate into benefits when learning new motor skills?	Gilles Comeau	MUS
Mettre en scène des personnes plutôt que des personnages: perspectives éthiques et esthétiques d'une tendance dramaturgique contemporaine	Anne-Marie Ouellet	THE
Music performance: when things go wrong, can somatic teaching result in improved performance and increased comfort while playing?	Gilles Comeau	MUS
Role of speech production in language learning	Tania Zamuner	LIN
Spoken word production in early language development	Tania Zamuner	LIN
Learning to sound like a native speaker: the acquisition of sociolinguistic competence in English by Canadian Francophones	Stephen Levey	LIN
The linguistic risk-taking initiative: mobile application and knowledge mobilization	Nikolay Slavkov	ILOB
La lecture musicale: du débutant à l'expert	Gilles Comeau	MUS

Digital humanities

Digital citizenship and literacy
Linked open data
Computational methods
Big data cyberinfrastructure
Cyberculture and ethics
Open access policy research
Translation technology
Digital memory institutions

Pamphlets.

Projects	Researcher	Department
Sustaining the knowledge commons (open access scholarship)	Heather Morrison	SIS
A data-driven history of country music's geo-cultural origins	Jada Watson	MUS
Gender representation in the country music industry, 1944-2017	Jada Watson	MUS
Christina Rossetti in Music: a study of the literary, musical, historical, and global significance of Rossetti's poetry in musico-literary collaborations	Mary Arseneau	ENG
Étude des pratiques de relations publiques et de leur impact sur les organisations fédérales canadiennes à l'ère du numérique	Ivan Ivanov	CMN
Urgence, hyperconnexion et stress numérique à l'hôpital : une application mobile pour reprendre le contrôle ?	Sylvie Grosjean	CMN