Archives: Spotlight on Research

Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Spotlight on Research – Professor Jennifer Henderson’s “After findings at Indian Residential Schools, settler Canadians shouldn’t hide behind the Gothic narrative”

Prof. Jennifer Henderson (cross-appointed to the Department of English Language and Literature and the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies) has recently published an article in The Conversation about how settler Canada is processing the ‘news’ of unmarked graves of Indigenous children on the grounds of former Indian residential schools... More

Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Spotlight on Research – Dr. Bridgette Brown “Sara Jeannette Duncan’s ‘Colonial Editions’: Imperial Authorship, Novel Innovations, and Literary Feminism in Cousin Cinderella”

Dr. Bridgette Brown completed her doctorate in the Department of English in 2019. Her dissertation, “The South African War (1899-1902) and the Transperipheral Production of Canadian Literature,” studies the ways in which settler projects of whiteness are constructed in literature, demonstrating how these projects acted across national lines at... More

Saturday, May 1, 2021

Spotlight on Research: “Frank Herbert’s Ecology, Oregon’s Dunes, and the Postwar Science of Desert Reclamation.” Veronika Kratz

Veronika Kratz, a senior PhD candidate in the Department of English, has recently had an article published in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment titled “Frank Herbert’s Ecology, Oregon’s Dunes, and the Postwar Science of Desert Reclamation." The essay is available online as an advance article here. The essay... More

Thursday, April 1, 2021

Spotlight on Research – Professor Nduka Otiono “The Night Hides With a Knife”

Professor Nduka Otiono, who holds a cross appointment in English and African Studies, has several new publications coming out this year. His short story collection, The Night Hides With a Knife, originally published in 1995, will be issued this month in a silver anniversary edition by New Horn Press (in conjunction with Mace Associates... More

Monday, March 15, 2021

Spotlight on Research – Professor Dana Dragunoiu’s “Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Moral Acts”

Professor Dana Dragunoiu has a new book forthcoming from Northwestern University Press. Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Moral Acts tells the story of the interaction of ethics and aesthetics in the works of one of the most celebrated literary stylists of the twentieth century: the Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The book puts... More

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Spotlight on Research – ‘Not Enough Raven’: Reading Lee Maracle’s Ravensong as Counter-Hegemonic Ethnography

Meghan Tibbits-Lamirande, Ph.D. Candidate in English, has recently published an article in Studies in Canadian Literature titled “‘Not Enough Raven’: Reading Lee Maracle’s Ravensong as Counter-Hegemonic Ethnography.” Building upon previous scholarship which delineates the politics of border crossing in Maracle’s oeuvre, this article... More

Friday, January 15, 2021

Spotlight on Research – Emotional Labour in Victorian Culture

Prof. Jan Schroeder (Chair of the Department of English) has recently published two essays on the topic of emotional labour in Victorian culture. “‘A Thousand Petty Troubles’: Margaret Hale’s Emotional Labour in North and South,” which appeared in a 2020 issue of the journal Women’s Writing, examines Margaret Hale’s unpaid emotional... More

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Spotlight on Research – The Origins of the Bible and Early Modern Political Thought

Travis DeCook's book The Origins of the Bible and Early Modern Political Thought will appear in early 2021 with Cambridge University Press. In this book, DeCook explores the theological and political innovations found in early modern accounts of the Bible's origins. In the charged climate produced by the Reformation and humanist historicism,... More

Friday, November 27, 2020

Spotlight on Research – The Prince and the Penny Chartist: The Great Exhibition in Reynolds’s Newspaper

Jenna M. Herdman, PhD candidate in English, has recently published an article in Victorian Periodicals Review titled "The Prince and the Penny Chartist: The Great Exhibition in Reynolds's Newspaper." This article studies the response of the radical Victorian press to the Great Exhibition of the Works of All Nations in London, 1851. Using original... More

Thursday, July 2, 2020

Spotlight on Research — The Presence of Rome in Medieval and Early Modern Britain: Texts, Artefacts and Beliefs

Prof. Andrew Wallace has a new book forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. The Presence of Rome in Medieval and Early Modern Britain: Texts, Artefacts and Beliefs explores the cultural and intellectual stakes of medieval and Renaissance Britain’s sense of itself as living in the shadow of Rome, a city whose name could designate the... More

Friday, May 1, 2020

Spotlight on Research: Leslie Savath

Doctoral candidate Leslie Savath has an article entitled “La Corriveau d’Anne Hébert : Traverser d’un côté à l’autre des barreaux” forthcoming in a special issue of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature in honour of the life and work of E.D. Blodgett. Savath’s article examines the representation of the Québécois legend... More

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Spotlight on Research: “COVID-19: Crisis, Critique, and the Limits of What We Can Hear” with Professor Stuart J. Murray

Professor Stuart J. Murray has just published “COVID-19: Crisis, Critique, and the Limits of What We Can Hear.” Appearing in an online collection alongside other Canadian scholars working in the field of biopolitics, it is a rapid-response essay written at beginning of the pandemic. The purpose of this collection was to offer critical... More

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