"Sita and Helen" on CBC Radio One
MA student聽Shailee Rajak joins CBC Radio One's聽"All in a Weekend" this Sunday, September 24th, to discuss her recently published children's book聽Sita and Helen. Shailee and host Sonali Karnick will be talking about the book, its intercultural value, its foregrounding of a feminist perspective, and the importance of having it read by children of all backgrounds.聽
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Kasia Van Schaik's "We Have Never Lived On Earth" longlisted for the 2023 Giller Prize
Recent PhD alumnus Kasia Van Schaik's debut story collection,聽We Have Never Lived On Earth, has been longlisted for one of Canada's most prestigious literary awards, the Scotiabank Giller Prize.聽 Said to "shimmer and compel like half-remembered dreams," these interwoven short stories聽follow the journey of Charlotte Ferrier, a ch
Catherine Bradley was awarded the H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching!
Catherine Bradley - Head of Wardrobe, costume designer, researcher, and teacher in the Department of English - was awarded the H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching!
Poetry Matters Featured in 91涩漫's Arts News
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 91涩漫's campus.
The Department of English Welcomes Visiting Scholar Deanna Reder
Cree-M茅tis 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 M茅tis 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.
Listen to Prof. Manshel on the podcast "On the Media"
Listen to Professor Alexander Manshel,聽author of the forthcoming book聽Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon, in the podcast聽On 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".