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Monday, October 30, 2023

Introducing the Pathy Foundation Fellowship

The Pathy Foundation Fellowship is an intensive 12-month experiential learning opportunity for graduating students to lead a self-directed project in a community they have a meaningful connection with. Fellows are provided with comprehensive training, personal and professional development coaching, up to $40,000 in funding, and wrap-around... More

Friday, October 13, 2023

Professor Jennifer Henderson nominated for the John Glassco Award

Congratulations to Prof. Jennifer Henderson, The Eye of the Master (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023) was nominated for the John Glassco Award (offered by the Association des traducteurs et traductrices du Canada). Prof. Henderson’s book is a translation of Dalie Giroux’s L’Oeil du maître (Mémoire d’encrier,... More

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

In Memory of Robin Mathews

We have learned recently that Robin Mathews has died. Robin was a faculty member in the Department of English for two decades. Perhaps best known to residents of Ottawa as the co-founder of the Great Canadian Theatre Company, Robin was also a driving force behind the movement to require universities in Canada to privilege... More

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Spotlight on Research: Professor Sarah Phillips Casteel will be published by Columbia University Press as part of its series Black Lives in the Diaspora

This February, Columbia University Press will publish Sarah Phillips Casteel’s monograph Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art as part of its major new series Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future, a collaboration with Howard University. Sarah’s book examines how, in the absence of public... More

Thursday, September 14, 2023

The 2024 Bridge Prize National Short Story Award

The Bridge Prize celebrates short story writing by post-secondary students. Presented by the University of Lethbridge School of Liberal Education, The Bridge Prize is designed to inspire and motivate the next generation of Canadian literary artists as they embark on their professional writing careers. Submission Deadline: January 22,... More

Monday, August 21, 2023

In Memory of Barbara Garner, Michael Gnarowski, and Bob Lovejoy

We celebrate the lives of those former colleagues who have died recently: Barbara Garner, Michael Gnarowski, and Bob Lovejoy. Our department was built with their efforts. We send our condolences to their families and... More

Friday, August 18, 2023

Introducing the Inaugural FASS Indigenous Artist-in-Residence – Tyler Pennock

The English Department and the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies as co-hosts are thrilled to introduce the inaugural FASS Indigenous Artist-in-Residence for Fall 2023. We invite you all to welcome Cree Two Spirit poet Tyler Pennock, who has published two books with Brick Books: Bones (2020) and Blood (2022). He is also an Assistant Professor... More

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Summer Spotlight on Research: Professor Micheline White featured in the Globe and Mail

Do you write in your books? Do you annotate your e-books? Perhaps that’s not a bad thing. Marginalia can provide historians with an important source of information about one’s reading habits, ideas, and feelings. On August 13th, the Globe and Mail featured the research of Prof. Micheline White, who has discovered “fresh evidence of... More

Thursday, June 22, 2023

Spring Graduates Jennifer Jacob and Sean Muncaster featured in FASS Story

Literary scholars, community builders and talented writers in their own right, Jennifer Jakob and Sean Muncaster also have the noteworthy distinction of being part of the newest cohort of graduates from the Department of English Language and Literature at Carleton University. Both will cross the convocation stage on Friday, June 16 to receive... More

Friday, June 2, 2023

Book Launch: Gendered Islamophobia by Adjunct Research Professor Monia Mazigh

Dr. Monia Mazigh, Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of English and Literature, has published a new book titled Gendered Islamophobia: My Journey with a Scar(f). A book launch will take place on Tuesday, June 20 at 6:30pm, during which Monia will have a conversation with journalist and professor Adrian Harewood. The launch will... More

Monday, April 17, 2023

The first issue of Sumac Literary Magazine has launched!

It’s finally time. Introducing the debut issue of Sumac Literary Magazine, “Embark,” created by students of ENGL 4135 over the course of the winter 2023 term. It features 26 works ranging from prose to poetry from members of the Carleton... More

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Spotlight on Research: Professor Jennifer Henderson publishes translation of Professor Dalie Giroux’s book

The Eye of the Master: Figures of the Québécois Colonial Imaginary (Carleton Library Series/McGill Queen’s University Press, 2023) is Professor Jennifer Henderson’s English translation of political philosopher Dalie Giroux’s award-winning book, L’Oeil du maître. To hear Professor Henderson and Professor Giroux discuss the challenges of... More

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