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Monday, November 18, 2024

Spotlight on Research: Professor Jody Mason has recently published in Research in African Literatures

Professor Jody Mason has just published “The Margaret Wrong Memorial Fund, Late Colonial Development, and the Prizing of African Literatures, 1950-62” in Research in African Literatures. The essay argues that the history of the Margaret Wrong Memorial Fund (MWMF) and its literary prize (1950–62) renders visible the influence of late colonial... More

Friday, November 15, 2024

Professor Micheline White Awarded Sixteenth Century Society’s 2024 Raymond B. Waddington Prize

Professor Micheline White (Department of English, College of Humanities) was awarded the Sixteenth Century Society's Raymond B. Waddington Prize for the best English-language journal article on the literature of the Early Modern period (1450-1750) published in 2023. Synopsis of Katherine Parr's Giftbooks, Henry VIII's Marginalia, and the Display... More

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Professor Julie Murray and Professor Andrew Wallace taking part in Library Lecture Series

Professor Julie Murray and Professor Andrew Wallace are taking part in the Library Lecture Series hosted by the Ottawa Public Library this Fall. Professor Murray discussed Mary Shelley's classic novel, Frankenstein, on October 28; and Professor Wallace will discuss the lesser-known Jane Austen novel, Persuasion, on November 23. Click here to... More

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

English at Carleton University — Ayla’s Story

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Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Professor Sarah Casteel named a Royal Society Fellow

The Department of English Language and Literature wishes to extend its warmest congratulations to Professor Sarah Casteel for being named a Royal Society Fellow. Professor Casteel’s research focuses on the intersection of Black studies and Jewish studies — including diaspora literature and culture and global Holocaust studies. She is a... More

Friday, October 4, 2024

In Memoriam: Percy Walton (1957-2024)

The English Department mourns the death of long-time colleague Percy Walton and we wish to extend our deepest sympathies to her family and friends. We remember her as a colleague who for over thirty-three years was generous and welcoming to new colleagues, mentored generations of students in the English Department, served as the editor... More

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

English Department Instagram Launch

The Department of English is excited to announce its very own new Instagram account as a hub for all social goings on and academic opportunities in the department and greater literary community! It is a great way for students and instructors to stay up to date on the student experience at Carleton as told... More

Friday, September 13, 2024

Doctoral candidate Meghan Tibbits-Lamirande featured in FASS News Story

A fifth-year doctoral candidate in English, Meghan Tibbits-Lamirande researches the relationship between militant protest tactics and the radical media, broadly defined, throughout the U.S. War in Vietnam. She reads activist performances, such as Alice Herz’s 1965 act of self-immolation, as expressions of political knowledge premised on... More

Friday, August 2, 2024

Summer Spotlight on Research: Professor Philip Kaisary has published a new book

Prof. Philip Kaisary (cross-appointed to Law and Legal Studies / ICSLAC / and English) has a new book, From Havana to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary! It was published a few weeks ago by SUNY Press. The book aspires to promote an understanding of historical and contemporary racial injustice, arguing that Cuban cinema... More

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Professor Brian Greenspan Named 2024 Carleton University Chair in Teaching Innovation

Brian Greenspan, an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and the College of the Humanities, has been named the 2024 Carleton University Chair in Teaching Innovation for his commitment to student success and novel approach to digital... More

Thursday, May 16, 2024

Professor Sarah Brouillette interviewed by CBC Radio’s Ottawa Morning

Prof. Sarah Brouillette talked to CBC Radio’s Ottawa Morning today about “tradwives” as social influencers: “Accounts of young women dedicated to homemaking are growing in popularity on social media. Carleton professor Sarah Brouillette breaks down what this... More

Thursday, May 9, 2024

Doctoral candidate Chichi Ayalogu awarded a SSHRC doctoral fellowship

Congratulations to Chichi Ayalogu!  A doctoral candidate in ICSLAC supervised by Profs Sarah Brouillette (English) and Franny Nudelman (English / ICSLAC), Chichi has been awarded a SSHRC doctoral fellowship for her project “Diasporic Witnessing: Crises and the Aesthetics of the Nigerian Migratory Intelligentsia.” Her dissertation analyzes... More

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