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Monday, April 8, 2024
In honour of the approaching conference season, this month’s spotlight features a paper presented last fall by Dana Mitchell, a PhD student in the Department of English. Mitchell’s paper, “Autobiography and Audience in Anne Thicknesse’s School for Fashion,” was featured in the program of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century... More
Friday, March 1, 2024
Meghan Tibbits-Lamirande, a PhD candidate in the Department of English, has an article forthcoming in a 2024 issue of American Quarterly. “‘Death before Reenlistment’: Vandalism and Sabotage onboard the USNS General John Pope” traces an alternative history of the USNS General John Pope, which had ferried troops across the Pacific... More
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Dr. Siobhain Bly Calkin, who teaches medieval literature in the department, has a new article coming out in March in the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. “Passion Relic Devotion, an Implanted Relic, and a Prostheticized Body” considers the interactions of relic and human matter in a late medieval text that has not... More
Friday, January 5, 2024
The research of Prof. Micheline White was highlighted by CTV News as one of the “15 Best Art, Design, and Archaeology Discoveries” of 2023. Prof. White’s discovery and analysis of the marginalia that King Henry VIII added to a prayer book written by his wife, Katherine Parr, first made international headlines in the summer... More
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
The latest issue of the journal Book History features the work of not fewer than three members of our department! Prof. Sarah Brouillette’s article “Wattpad, Platform Capitalism, and the Feminization of Publishing Work” argues that Wattpad's success reflects and reinforces trends in the distribution of publishing work and profits. Key among... More
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
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
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
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
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
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
Sunday, January 1, 2023
Professor Grant Williams has recently coedited—and contributed an essay to—a collection of essays in the series “Palgrave Shakespeare Studies.” The Shakespearean Death Arts: Hamlet Among the Tombs (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) is the first book to view Shakespeare’s plays from the prospect of the premodern death arts. These arts refer to... More
Thursday, December 15, 2022
Prof. Jan Schroeder’s short article, “You Can Always Adopt,” appears in a new special issue of the journal Adoption & Culture, in which critical adoption scholars respond to the repeal of the landmark US precedent Roe v. Wade (1973). “You Can Always Adopt” argues that “stories about reproductive choice frame us as competitors in... More
Thursday, December 1, 2022
In Climate Change, Interrupted: Representation and the Remaking of Time, published in November 2022 by Stanford University Press, Professor Barbara Leckie argues that linear, progress-inflected temporalities are not adequate to a crisis that defies their terms. Instead, this book advances a theory and practice of interruption to rethink prevailing... More
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
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
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