PhD in English and Film Studies - Nation, Diaspora and Culture in Waterloo Canada | Wilfrid Laurier University

Works of literature and cinema, along with visual and spoken stories, help shape an individual's connection to a conceptualized community. This could range from immediate family units to larger sociocultural or religious affiliations, or even expansive political and ideological structures like nations or empires. Beyond examining British, Canadian, and American national literatures and films, this discipline engages with modern discussions and theoretical advancements in post-colonial, global, minority, indigenous, and diasporic studies (encompassing Asian, Caribbean, and African perspectives). Key theoretical, cultural, and historical themes address warfare, colonial expansion, migration, enslavement, racial identity, cultural blending, movement across borders, worldwide integration, fundamental freedoms, and gender dynamics.