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Dr. Joseph studied literary responses to urban change in the city of Vancouver. She demonstrated that literary texts communicate important knowledge about the experiential, emotional, and relational aspects of urban life. Literary texts, she argued, expand and complicate our understanding of what the city is and what it might become.

A randomly-selected Doctoral citation each day: today from the Doctor of Philosophy in English (PhD) - graduated in 2011