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Monday, January 24, 2022

Noah’s Blog – “The Novelist’s Novelist, the Filmmaker’s Novelist”

The 2021-22 student blogger for the Department of English, Noah Bendzsa, has published a new blog post, “The Novelist’s Novelist, the Filmmaker’s Novelist.” Noah’s latest post explores his complicated love for movie writers––“not screenwriters but movie characters who are writers, especially those who have failed to live up to... More

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Spotlight on Research – DisPlace: The Poetry of Professor Nduka Otiono

The selected poems of Professor Nduka Otiono (African Studies, cross-appointed to the Department of English) have recently been published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press. The poems in DisPlace: The Poetry of Nduka Otiono are drawn from Otiono's two published collections, Voices in the Rainbow, and Love in a Time of Nightmares, and the volume... More

Monday, November 22, 2021

Prof. Mason on ‘The Creative Crusade’: Settler Colonial Antinomies and Books for Development in the Age of Three Worlds”

Prof. Jody Mason gave the 2021 Scholarly Lecture for the Canadian Literature Centre at the University of Alberta on Nov. 5, 2021. You can watch the lecture, entitled “ ‘The Creative Crusade’: Settler Colonial Antinomies and Books for Development in the Age of Three Worlds,” here:... More

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Contract Instructor Opportunities Summer 2022

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 & Literature courses in Summer 2022: ENGL 2302 [0.5... More

Friday, November 12, 2021

Support an Artist-in-Residence in Drama Studies

Drama Studies, housed in the English Department, provides an opportunity for students to “Indulge Your Dramatic Side” while pursuing Undergraduate degrees in a variety of disciplines. Students of Drama Studies have the option to complete a Concentration or a Minor. Courses are divided into the academic and the practical, with scholars teaching... More

Friday, November 12, 2021

Noah’s Blog – Reading Copy

Would you believe… that I actually exclaimed “Ah-ha!” when I thought that I’d spotted an error in The New Yorker? I was out in public, and I’m sure my reaction would have drawn looks, if I hadn’t been in a parked car in an LCBO parking lot. (I was waiting for a friend.) The apparently offending... More

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Spotlight on Research – Elizabeth Dizon on “Looking for the Ghosts of Women’s Liberation’: Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex and Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu”

Elizabeth Dizon will receive her M.A. English in 2021 with a specialization in Digital Humanities. Her Master’s Research Project, “Looking for the Ghosts of Women’s Liberation’: Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex and Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu,” incorporates both a traditional approach to literary scholarship in the form of... More

Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Interview by Ottawa poet rob mclennan with Ph.D. Candidate Simon Turner

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Friday, October 29, 2021

Carleton’s First Radio Play: A Little Too Maybe

Drama Studies and CKCU present "A Little Too Maybe", a 3-part radio drama and documentary created by students from ENGL 4605. It airs November 2, 9, and 16 on CKCU (93.1 FM) at 8:05 a.m. Tune in to hear about how the collaboration between CKCU and students Rachel Stanley, Drew Torresan, and Jadi Genati... More

Friday, October 22, 2021

Warmest congratulations to Dr. Monia Mazigh!

Congratulations to Dr. Monia Mazigh for winning the 2021 Ottawa Book Awards prize for French-language fiction. Dr. Mazigh, Adjunct Research Professor in Carleton’s Department of English Language and Literature, won the prize for Farida, a novel about a woman’s struggles with patriarchal systems in Tunisia. Dr. Mazigh’s biography as author... More

Friday, October 22, 2021

Announcing The 2021-22 Annual Drama Competition

Indulge Your Dramatic Side Submissions of short screenplays, radio plays, scenes, or one-act plays. submissions are limited to 5 pages, with a limit of 3 submissions per person. Submissions will be adjudicated by a panel of judges. The winner will be announced at the beginning of the winter term. The winner will receive two... More

Monday, October 18, 2021

Welcome to Noah’s Blog

Noah Bendzsa is a fourth-year Honours English student. They studied mathematics and chemistry, successfully and unhappily, until discovering that they could study novels and short stories instead. Although they sometimes miss hearing about “Gödel and His Problems,” they have not looked back. In their spare time not spent reading, they enjoy... More

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