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Thursday, November 24, 2022

Contract Instructor Opportunities Summer 2023

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 during the 2023 Summer Term:... More

Monday, November 21, 2022

In Memory of Bob Hogg, Poet, Scholar & Colleague (1942-2022)

We celebrate the life of Bob Hogg (1942-2022), our former colleague of many years. The words of Cameron Anstee (poet, scholar, and graduate of the Department of English) offer a thoughtful tribute to... More

Monday, November 14, 2022

Sam’s Blog – Dealing with Academic Anxiety, One Step at a Time

Dear reader, one of my academic nightmares finally came true. A few weeks ago, one of my classes had an assignment that required us to come up with pitches for an upcoming presentation in groups of four and present them in front of a small group of... More

Monday, November 7, 2022

Congratulations to Prof. Dana Dragunoiu, whose book has been awarded the Brian Boyd Prize for Best Second Book on Nabokov

Congratulations to Prof. Dana Dragunoiu, whose book Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Moral Acts (Northwestern University Press, 2021) has been awarded the Brian Boyd Prize for Best Second Book on Nabokov. The judges found this “to be a brave, creative treatment of ground well-prepared by earlier scholars interested in the ethical side of... More

Friday, November 4, 2022

Exciting news! The Next Stages Podcast is now available on Spotify!

Click here to listen to the first two episodes and... More

Thursday, November 3, 2022

The 2022-23 Annual Drama Competition is now open!

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Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Next Stages Podcast – Episode Two!

The wait is over: Next Stages has released its second episode, which will air on CKCU at 8:00 a.m. Thursday, November 3rd. Tune in to hear Professor Janne Cleveland and rocket scientist-turned-playwright Lawrence Aronovitch speak with Sarah Waisvisz: playwright, director, and performer. Sarah’s play ‘Heartlines’ was produced at Great... More

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Spotlight on Research: PhD English graduate Gemma Marr to work on a new Postdoc project

Dr. Gemma Marr, a former doctoral candidate in the Department of English, defended her dissertation in the late summer of 2022. She is the recipient of a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship that will take her to the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick, where she will be working with Dr. Erin Morton... More

Friday, October 28, 2022

Ph.D. candidate Meghan Tibbits-Lamirande recently curated “The Pro-Choice Movement in Canada”

Ph.D. candidate Meghan Tibbits-Lamirande recently curated "The Pro-Choice Movement in Canada". The exhibit invites readers to contemplate Canadian pro-choice protesters’ use of militant direct action and civil disobedience beginning in May 1970. Using material from the Canadian Women’s Movement collection at University of Ottawa Archives and... More

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

The Next Stages Podcast is here!

Drama Studies and CKCU FM are launching the new podcast, Next Stages, with our first episode in which Janne Cleveland and Lawrence Aronovitch interview Katya Vetrov, founder of KingDom Theatre here in Ottawa! Katya is also teaching ENGL 3608 at CDCC this term, a brand-new course that teaches students how to establish and maintain... More

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Special Issue of Studies in Canadian Literature co-edited by Janne Cleveland – Call for Papers

With Cynthia Sugars (U of Ottawa), our own Janne Cleveland is editing a special issue of Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature Canadienne. They invite interdisciplinary contributions on the topic of Canadian Drama and the Performing Arts for the issue, entitled "Staging Strategies: Trends in Canadian Drama and Performing Arts."... More

Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Congratulations to the winners of the 2021-2022 Flash Fiction Competition!

The Creative Writing Concentration and the entire Department of English congratulate the winners of the 2021-2022 Flash Fiction Competition. First Prize: “The Yewing Tree by Jillian Lumley Jillian Lumley is a first year STEM student at Carleton University, who grew up in Prince Edward County in Ontario. Click here to read "The Yewing Tree".... More

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