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Friday, June 15, 2018

2018 PhD Convocation

Congratulations to Dr. Adam Benn and Dr. Kim Sigouin who both graduated at this morning’s convocation... More

Friday, June 15, 2018

Summer Spotlight on Research — Interacting with Print: Keywords for the Era of Media Saturation

  Prof. Paul Keen is one of twenty-two authors known as the Multigraph Collective who co-wrote the recently published Interacting with Print: Keywords for the Era of Media Saturation (Chicago University Press, 2017). In her recent review of the book in the Times Literary Supplement, Abigail Williams asks, “what would an academic book... More

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Contract Instructor Opportunities Fall 2018

Contract Instructor Opportunities Fall 2018 Carleton University, Department of English Language & Literature Pursuant to Article 16 of the CUPE 4600 Unit 2 Collective Agreement, applications are invited from members of the CUPE 4600-2 bargaining unit and other interested persons to teach the following Department of English Language &... More

Monday, June 11, 2018

Don Beecher recognized for 50 years of service

Don Beecher was recognized for 50 years - yes, 50! - of service to the English department. There has never been anyone with such a long record of service at Carleton, so the organizers gave him two 25 year pins because they didn’t have one for 50... More

Monday, June 11, 2018

Ruminations on artists, activists, and the power of creative imagination

By Dr. Sarah Waisvisz I often describe myself as working “At the Intersection,” as if it is an actual physical place in the world. I imagine this Intersection to be alternately a bustling port where a river meets the sea, an urban crossroads at the border of four countries, and a desert tent with... More

Friday, June 8, 2018

Summer Spotlight on Research — Rhetoric Society of America Conference

Last week, Prof. Stuart Murray and a doctoral candidate in English he is supervising, Tad Lemieux, travelled together to Minneapolis to present papers at the Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Prof. Murray’s paper, “Necessaries of Life: The Rhetorics of Medico-Legal Time and Indigenous Life-Times,” reads a Canadian legal case concerning... More

Friday, June 1, 2018

Summer Spotlight on Research — The Canadian Magazine, Transperipheral Whiteness and the Soldier in the South African War

Doctoral candidate Bridgette Brown recently presented a paper at the annual Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) conference at the University of Regina. Her paper, “The Canadian Magazine, Transperipheral Whiteness and the Soldier in the South African War,” forms part of the research conducted for her... More

Thursday, May 31, 2018

Contract Instructor Opportunities Fall/Winter 2018-19

Contract Instructor Opportunities Fall/Winter 2018-19 Carleton University, Department of English Language & Literature Pursuant to Article 16 of the CUPE 4600 Unit 2 Collective Agreement, applications are invited from members of the CUPE 4600-2 bargaining unit and other interested persons to teach the following Department of English Language... More

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Call for Paper Proposals — Department of English MA Colloquium

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Monday, May 28, 2018

English Language and Literature (First Year Writing) – Instructor

Academic Unit: English Language and Literature Category of Appointment: Term Field of Specialization: First Year Writing Rank/Position Title: Instructor Start Date: July 1, 2018 Closing Date: Review of Applications Will Begin June 11 and Continue Until the Position is Filled About the Position: The Department of English Language and Literature... More

Monday, May 28, 2018

Summer Spotlight on Research — Unfinished: A Cultural History of Nineteenth-Century Procrastination

Prof. Barbara Leckie recently received a University Research Achievement Award for her current book project, Unfinished: A Cultural History of Nineteenth-Century Procrastination. Unfinished is inspired by the fact that much of the burgeoning material on procrastination of the last thirty years draws its examples from the nineteenth century (Samuel... More

Thursday, May 24, 2018

Endings and New Beginnings

By Amanda Seed As a farewell blog post, this is decidedly late. As the Carleton English Undergrad blogger, this post is even later. I suppose I got a bit caught up in Life with a capital L? I’ll start with an update. Since I last posted, I successfully made it through the first semester... More

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