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Filomena is a proud MLC Alumna and no longer with the Centre.

Filomena Gasparro has a Fine Arts background and is enrolled in Ryerson’s Fashion MA program (2013-2015). Under the supervision of Dr. Irene Gammel, she is researching and writing a Major Research Paper entitled "Fashioning Life: ‘Wear’ Your Story,” which involves the curating of an exhibition. Filomena’s research and art practice draws on theories of life writing, gender, and material culture. Filomena holds an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies (York, 2006) and a BA in Fine Arts (York, 2001). She designs women’s clothes and plans to make wearable art.

MA Major Research Paper

Gasparro, Filomena. "Fashioning Life: ‘Wear’ Your Story,” School of Fashion and Yeates School of Graduate Studies. Ryerson University, July 2015.

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Selected Solo Exhibitions

Gasparro, Filomena. "Figura” at Imagine Art, Thornhill, 2007. 

Gasparro, Filomena. "Reflections of the Glass Books,” Material Matters, Toronto, 2006.

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The Great War in Literature and Visual Culture

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The Great War in Literature and Visual Culture

Amid the unprecedented social change of World War I, women renegotiated their identities by dramatically changing the way they engaged with the arts. But how did they do so? And how did everyday citizens engage with the war?
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

MLC Themes

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

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Modernism in the World

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Modernism in the World

Recent research has departed from the Euro-centric and national view of Modernism to include approaches and methods studying Modernism across national boundaries and across different art forms to include fashion, dance, performance, technology, and visual culture.
Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Lucy Maud Montgomery

L.M. Montgomery is perhaps Canada's most important literary export. She was prolific writer of over 500 short stories and poems, and twenty novels, including the beloved Anne of Green Gables.
Canadian Modernism

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Canadian Modernism

The works of numerous Canadian authors who lived during the modernist era may well constitute the most central and experimental articulation of Canadian modernism in prose, allowing authors to stage cross-cultural, controversial, and even conflicted identities.
Modernist Biography and Life Writing

MLC Themes

Modernist Biography and Life Writing

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