Janice Best, Acadia University

Research

censorship propaganda popular theatre Napoléon I Napoléon III myths of national identity dialogism dominant discourse

Latest funding

Playing Napoleon: The battlefield on the boulevard
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$78,250
Playing Napoleon: The battlefield on the boulevard
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$4,005
Secrets and scandals: political censorship of Vaudeville theatre in 19th century France
SSHRC · 2013 · Principal investigator
$83,952

Playing Napoleon: The battlefield on the boulevard

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Best, Janice J.

Keywords: censorship; propaganda; popular theatre; Napoléon I; Napoléon III; myths of national identity; dialogism; dominant discourse; counter discourse

$78,250

Playing Napoleon: The battlefield on the boulevard

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Best, Janice J.

Keywords: censorship; propaganda; popular theatre; Napoléon I; Napoléon III; myths of national identity; dialogism; dominant discourse; counter discourse

$4,005

Secrets and scandals: political censorship of Vaudeville theatre in 19th century France

Principal investigatorSSHRC2013Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Best, Janice J.

Keywords: political censorship; nineteenth-century French literature; Vaudeville theatre; discourse analysis; dialogism; Bakhtin; speech act theory; dominant discourse; counter discourse; parody; popular music; database of censored manuscripts

$83,952

Rebuilding Paris after 1870: public space, history and forgetting

Principal investigatorSSHRC2005Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Best, Janice J.

Keywords: public space; history; fine art; literature; censorship; dialogism; discouse analysis; ideology

$76,752

Moralité, politique et dialogisme : la censure théâtrale au XIXe siècle

Principal investigatorSSHRC1996Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Best, Janice

Keywords: Censure; autocensure; dialogisme; moralité; politique; subversion; théâtre; opéra

$4,420

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: censorship Dear Professor Best, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on censorship connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Playing Napoleon: The battlefield on the boulevard" (2019), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]