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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

Monday, October 3, 2022

Professor Dana Dragunoiu and PhD candidate Simon Turner recently highlighted in FASS Story

Congratulations to Professor Dana Dragunoiu and PhD candidate Simon Turner, who were recently highlighted in a FASS Story, Publishing in a Pandemic. Please click here to read the full... More

Monday, October 3, 2022

Spotlight on Research: Professor Stuart J. Murray, “The Living from the Dead: Disaffirming Biopolitics”

Professor Stuart J. Murray has just published The Living from the Dead: Disaffirming Biopolitics with Penn State University Press. In the book, Professor Murray asks: in a society that aims above all to safeguard life, how might we reckon with ethical responsibility when we are complicit in sacrificial economies that produce and tolerate death... More

Thursday, September 22, 2022

Sam’s Blog – New Year, New Program, New People

As I entered the final days of my summer job, I said private goodbyes to my least favourite parts of food service. Goodbye to the flies in the maintenance room. Goodbye to the loft from which the managers could assess our work efficiency at any... More

Thursday, April 14, 2022

Winner of the first annual Drama Studies Competition

The winner of our First Annual Drama Studies Competition is Jennifer Goodman, with her one-act play, First Date: The Musical. This quirky, fun romp reminds us that there's more than one way to interpret what counts as a good first... More

Friday, April 8, 2022

If you missed this year’s Munro Beattie event, you’re in luck! You can still watch the recording of it.

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Thursday, March 31, 2022

Noah’s Blog – “Shocks in a Clown-Shaped Box”

The Department of English’s student blogger for 2021-22, Noah Bendzsa, has just published a new post, “Shocks In a Clown-Shaped Box.” Noah’s latest post ponders the qualities of Stephen King’s novel It. What makes the novel worth reading, in Noah’s estimation, might surprise you. You can read the post... More

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Noah’s Blog – “Fifteen-Minute Intermission”

In their latest post, Department of English student blogger Noah Bendzsa takes inspiration from Wes Anderson’s latest film The French Dispatch and poses two challenges to readers. Check out “Fifteen-Minute Intermission” on the FASS... More

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

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