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ISID congratulates Marie-Perle Nkosi, president for the 2022/2023 year of the International Development Studies Students Association and one of three Black Grad Valedictorians at Â鶹Çø this year!Ìý Read the full details and an interview with Marie-Perle in the Â鶹Çø Reporter:Ìý

Published on: 12 May 2023

To mark World Poetry Month, the Arts News team spoke to Professor Miranda Hickman (Department of English) and students Anushree Joshi (MA, English), James Jarrett (U3, English and Music) and recent alum Jana Perkins (MA, English) about the importance of poetry and how research and community initiatives such as Poetry Matters are building spaces for poetic discussions both on and beyond Â鶹Çø's campus.

Published on: 18 Apr 2023

Cree-Métis scholar Dr. Deanna Reder did not study Indigenous literatures as an undergraduate. At the time such courses did not exist at her university. Propelled by this lack, she began to read outside of the conventional canon, with a keen eye on texts written by Cree or Métis authors. By the time she began her doctoral work in 2001, the field began to shift and a generation of 21st Century Indigenous writers began to be published.

Published on: 15 Mar 2023

Listen to Professor Alexander Manshel,Ìýauthor of the forthcoming bookÌýWriting Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon, in the podcastÌýOn the Media. Manshel speaks of the ressurgence of historical novels and their focus on disregarded histories in the segment "How Historical Novels Can Help Us Remember".

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Published on: 6 Mar 2023

Come to a Zoom information session about the Honours Program in English

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Published on: 7 Feb 2023

Professors Fiona Ritchie and Tabitha Sparks have both published new books!

  • Fiona Ritchie, . Bloomsbury.
  • Tabitha Sparks, , University of Virginia Press.
Published on: 14 Dec 2022

Today, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced the five winners of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s (SSHRC) 2022 Impact Awards.

Â鶹Çø’s Cindy Blackstock, one of Canada’s most important social work scholars and an indefatigable advocate for Indigenous children’s rights and welfare, has won the SSHRC Gold Medal, the federal agency’s highest honour. The Gold Medal is awarded to an individual whose sustained leadership, dedication, and originality of thought have inspired students and colleagues alike.

Classified as: Cindy Blackstock, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Impact Awards, School of Social Work, Faculty of Arts
Published on: 1 Dec 2022

Arte Video Povera and DIY Self-Portraiture: How to tell stories through images without professional equipment

Published on: 26 Nov 2022

Professor Fiona Ritchie has been awarded a short-term Visiting Fellowship at Jesus College, University of Oxford, which she will take up in Winter 2023 during her sabbatic leave. While in Oxford, Professor Ritchie will conduct archival research for her research project on women and regional theatre in Britain in the long eighteenth century.

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Published on: 15 Sep 2022

Congratulations to Professor Lecker!

Professor Robert Lecker has been awarded the prestigious , a biennial prize recognizing achievement in critical or imaginative literature from the Royal Society of Canada.

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Published on: 14 Sep 2022

The Department of English is proud to recognize the following students who have been selected for the awards and scholarships listed below for the 2021-2022Ìýacademic year.

(The writing prizes are determined by committees made up of professors in the Department of English, who review submissions with the authors’ names removed.)

Published on: 12 Sep 2022

Professor Ara Osterweil contributed to The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, 1963-1965Ìý(ed. John G. Hanhardt, Whitney Museum of Art), which was awarded theÌý

Published on: 8 Sep 2022

From the Royal Society of Canada website:

“Allan Hepburn, an internationally renowned literary scholar, has published many books and articles on twentieth-century British, Irish, and American novels. Mid-century literature and culture are his particular expertise. His publications focus on convergences among espionage, human rights, citizenship, nuclear extinction, the Second World War, diplomacy, and fiction. He is a recognized authority on the novelist Elizabeth Bowen. He holds the James Â鶹Çø Chair in Twentieth Century Literature at Â鶹Çø. “

Published on: 8 Sep 2022

Â鶹Çø undergraduates have a unique opportunity to expand their climate science literacy and acquire tools for taking action to reduce the impacts of the unfolding climate crisis.

Registration is now open to students in every program for FSCI 198: Climate Crisis and Climate Actions, a new undergraduate course featuring a team of multi-disciplinary instructors who will present diverse perspectives on the scientific and social dimensions of climate change.

Published on: 14 Jul 2022

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