Committee Member, Ph.D. Thesis: Lisa Sandlos, “Shimmy, Shake and Shudder? A Feminist Analysis of Sexualization and Hypersexualization in Competitive Dance” (in progress)
Committee Member, Ph.D. Thesis: Marva Milo, “The Freewoman (1911-12): Feminism and Print Culture in Britain” (completed 2017)
Committee Member, Ph.D. Thesis: Leyna Lowe, “From Environmental Citizenship to Environmental Justice: Girls and Environmental Education Programs in Urban Spaces” (completed 2017)
Supervisor, Ph.D. Thesis: Özlem Ezer, “Three Turkish Women Travelers (1913-1930): From the Represented to the Representing” (completed 2010)
Second Reader, M. A. Major Research Paper: Leyna Lowe, “Creative Activists: Girls, Art and Cultural Activism in girlSpoken: from pen, brush, and tongue” (completed 2009)
Committee Member, Ph.D. Thesis: Jennifer Lund, "Negotiating Race and Gender in 19th-Century Ontario. The Writings of Eliza Jones, British Wife of an Ojibwa Missionary" (completed 2010)
Committee Member 2008, Ph.D. Thesis: Marielle Aylen, “Modern Vision and National Memory: Jori Smith, the Montreal Avant-garde and Charlevoix Painters” (completed 2008)
Second Reader, M. A. Major Research Paper: Dana Mount, “Mamma’s Gone A-Hunting: An Ecofeminist Analysis of the Modern Woman Hunter” (completed 2006)
Second Reader, M. A. Major Research Paper: Francesca Dall’Acqua, “How Ethics and Epistemology Meet in Feminist Theory: The Promise of Ecofeminism” (completed 2005)
Supervisor, Ph.D. Thesis: Mary Ebos, “Julia Margaret Cameron’s Ceylonese Photographs: A Feminist Visual Cultural Analysis” (2001-2006) (completed 2008)
Co-Supervisor, Ph.D. Thesis: Joyce Clements, “’A winding sheet for Deborah George’: Searching for the Women of Ponkapoag” (completed 2004)
Committee member, Ph.D. Thesis: Anna Stina Kjellstrom, “Women’s Business: Female Networks in a Rural Area in Southeastern Sweden, 1930-2000.” (in progress)
Supervisor, M.A. Research Paper: Janice Blathwayt, "Listening to the Voice of Elizabeth Carter" (completed 1995)
Supervisor, Ph.D. Thesis: Janice Blathwayt, “More than ‘distinguished for piety and virtue’: New Perspectives on Elizabeth Carter” (completed 2002)
Supervisor, Ph.D. Thesis: Verna Linney, "The Flora Delanica: Women, Science, and Friendship in 18th-Century England" (completed 1998)
Ex-Officio membership on Ph.D. thesis committees, 1995-97
Ex-Officio membership on Ph.D. comprehensive examination committees, 1995-1997
Member of Ph.D. comprehensive examination committees, 2001, 2000, 2012, 2013
Committee Member, Ph.D. Thesis, Jessica Lee, “Of Field and Forest: Aesthetics and the Nonhuman on Hampstead Heath” (completed 2016)
Committee Member, Ph.D. Thesis: Khyati Nagar, “Visual Cultures of Science in Early 19th-Century Calcutta” (in progress)
Supervisor on Major Research Paper, Noa Yaari, “’Personal Contexts’ in Leonardo da Vinci’s Portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci” (completed 2012)
Second Reader on Major Research Paper: Tehmina Khan, “Swati Women’s Quest for an Identity” (completed 2012)
Second Reader on Major Research Paper: Cynthia Klinowski, “Popular Culture Bewitched: Revealing the Secular Witch in Western Media Narratives” (completed 2008)
Second Reader on Major Research Paper: Jessica Gill, “Constructs of Identity: Nationalism and Ritual in the Jewish Diaspora” (completed 2004)
Supervisor, Ph.D. Thesis: Judith Stuart Anderson, "Constructing Female Community and Culture in the Works of Margaret Cavendish, Mary Astell, Eliza Haywood and Charlotte Lennox" (completed 2004)
Committee Member, Ph.D. Thesis, “Governing Passion and Pursuing Interest: Vicissitudes of the Civic in Britain, 1750-1820” (completed 2003)
Supervisor, Ph.D. Thesis: Miriam Jones, "'Too common and most unnatural': Rewriting the 'Infanticidal Woman' in Britain, 1764-1859" (completed 1999)
Supervisor, Ph.D. Thesis: Lisa Wood, "'Vehicles' of 'Sound Doctrine'? Anti-Revolutionary Novels by Women 1793-1815" (completed 1999)
Supervisor, Ph.D. Thesis: Jeanne Wood, "The Literary Woman in Exemplary Biographical Collections, 1750-1830" (completed 1996)
Committee Member, Ph.D. Thesis, Andrea O’Reilly, "'Ship and Harbour; Inn and Trail': Toni Morrison on Mothering" (completed 1996)
Supervisor, Ph.D. Thesis: Katherine Binhammer, "Sex Wars of the 1790s: Jacobin Women and Writing" (completed 1995)
Supervisor, M.A. Research Paper: "Writing and Rewriting the Female Sublime: Exploring the Female Sublime in Ann Radcliffe and Dorothy Wordsworth" (completed 1995)
Supervisor, Major Research Paper: Lisa Haberman, "Canon-Making and Canon-Breaking in the Gothic Novel" (completed 1995)
Supervisor, Ph.D. Thesis: Gillian Teiman, "The Female Ideal and the Female Voice: Ideology, Resistance, and Accommodation in the Tatler and Spectator, the Female Tatler, and the Female Spectator" (completed 1993)
Committee Member, Ph.D. Thesis: "Family and Secrecy: Plots of Geneological Succession from Fielding to Radcliffe" (completed 1993)
Committee Member, M.A. Thesis: "Garvin's Crawford: Editing the Poetry of Isabella Valency Crawford" (completed 1988)
Committee Member, Ph.D. Thesis: Death of a Genre: Pastoral Poetry in 18th-Century England" (completed 1988)
Committee Member, Ph.D. Thesis: "The Novels of Jane Austen in Relation to 18th-Century Satirical Poetry" (completed 1983)
Supervisory Preparation for Field Exams on Eighteenth Century: 1999; 1994
Supervisory Preparation for Field Exams on Women and Literature: 2003; 2002; 1995; 1989-91
Participation in Field Exams on Eighteenth Century: 1994; 1993; 1986; 1983
Participation in Field Exams on Women and Literature: 2003; 2001; 1987-92
Committee Member, Ph.D. Thesis: Rachel O’Donnell, “Colonial Plants and Contemporary Bioprospecting: The Gendered History of Petiveria alliacea,” Graduate Program in Political Science, York University (completed 2016)
Committee Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Oral, “Situating Objectivity: A Feminist Conceptualization,” Graduate Program in Philosophy, York University, 2015.
Oral Examination Committee Member, M. A. Thesis: Seika Boye, “The Women of Modern Dance in Toronto 1965-1975,” Graduate Programme in Dance, York University, June 2006.
External Examiner, Ph.D. Thesis: “’Seminal Women’: Women in Science in the Canadian Federal Department of Agriculture, 1884 to 1921,” Department of History, University of Ottawa, May 2002.
External Examiner, Ph.D. Thesis: "The Creation of the Modern Child Subject: Children’s Literature, Pedagogy, Pediatrics, and the Politics of Class in Late Eighteenth-Century England," Department of English, University of Alberta, August 1999.
Committee Member, M.A. Thesis: "The Minuet: Neoclassicism in Motion," Programme in Dance History, York University (completed 1987)
Committee Member, Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination, Programme in Social and Political Thought, York University: 1991; 1988
External Examiner, Ph.D. Thesis: "Socio-historical Perspectives on the Scientific Education of Girls in 19th and 20th-Century England," University of Leeds, England, 1985.
Humanities 1720: “The Roots of Western Culture: The Modern Period,,” 1998-99; 1994; 1990-91; 1973-74
Humanities 1830: “Concepts of the ‘Male’ and the ‘Female’ in Western Culture” 1995-96
Humanities 2720: “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature” 1974-6, 1977-78
Humanities 2720: “Texts and Contexts: Introduction to Comparative Literature” 1987-88
Humanities 3350: “Nature in Narrative” 1996-97
Humanities 3910: “Images of Women in Western Culture” 1975-76
Humanities 3720: “Images of Man in 20th-Century Thought” 1972-3
Humanities 3920: "The Eighteenth Century: Culture in Ferment" (formerly entitled "From Classic to Romantic: European Thought and Literature of the 18th Century”) 1989-90; 1986-87; 1983-84
Humanities 4650: "Women and Culture” 1991-92
Humanities 4620:Women's Studies 4010B: "Defiance and Decorum: Women, Revolution, and the 18th Century" 1997-98
