Cynthia Sugars, University of Ottawa

Research

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Latest funding

Imprinting authority: literature, community, and settler legitimation in pre-confederation English Canada
SSHRC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$109,464
The Idea of the Author in Pre-Confederation Canada
SSHRC · 2014 · Principal investigator
$62,790
Phantom nation settler gothic and the mirage of memory
SSHRC · 2011 · Principal investigator
$41,090

All 5 grants and awards

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Imprinting authority: literature, community, and settler legitimation in pre-confederation English Canada

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Sugars, Cynthia C.

Keywords: Canadian literature; pre-confederation; nineteenth century; print culture; transnational

$109,464

The Idea of the Author in Pre-Confederation Canada

Principal investigatorSSHRC2014Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Sugars, Cynthia

Keywords: literary history; early Canadian literature; book history; print culture; Canadian criticism; colonial period

$62,790

Phantom nation settler gothic and the mirage of memory

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011

Principal investigators: Sugars, Cynthia C.

Keywords: Canadian literature; gothic; haunting; postcolonialism; settler fiction; historical fiction

$41,090

Transitional spaces: rethinking English-Canadian postcolonialism

Principal investigatorSSHRC2004Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Sugars, Cynthia C.

Keywords: Canadian literature; postcolonial theory; multiculturalism; Canadian studies

$58,584

Postcolonialism and Pedagogy: Canadian Literatures in the Classroom

Principal investigatorSSHRC2001Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: Sugars, Cynthia

Keywords: Canadian; literature; culture; multiculturalism; postcolonialism; colonialism; imperialism; pedagogy; education; Aboriginal

$10,000

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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