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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
Monday, October 3, 2022
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, March 31, 2022
Professors Donald Beecher and Grant Williams have recently published an edition of two literary pamphlets written by the little-known Elizabethan printer Henry Chettle. (A pamphlet was a popular and cheap print form that could span anywhere from several pages to the length of a short book.) The first text, Kind-Heart’s Dream, is a parodic... More
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Professor Sarah Brouillette and PhD candidate Dessa Bayrock, both from the Department of English, recently co-authored an essay published in the British literary journal Wasafiri. “Who Wins? The Politics of Prize Culture in Canada’s CODE Burt Awards” discusses a book prize administered by the Canadian Organization for Development through... More
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Dr. Christopher Doody, who graduated with a Ph.D. in English from Carleton in 2016, is the co-editor (along with Eric Schmaltz) of I Want To Tell You Love, a critical edition of the poetry of bill bissett and Milton Acorn. Published in late 2021 by the University of Calgary Press, the edition features the... More
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
The selected poems of Professor Nduka Otiono (African Studies, cross-appointed to the Department of English) have recently been published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press. The poems in DisPlace: The Poetry of Nduka Otiono are drawn from Otiono's two published collections, Voices in the Rainbow, and Love in a Time of Nightmares, and the volume... More
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Elizabeth Dizon will receive her M.A. English in 2021 with a specialization in Digital Humanities. Her Master’s Research Project, “Looking for the Ghosts of Women’s Liberation’: Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex and Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu,” incorporates both a traditional approach to literary scholarship in the form of... More
Friday, October 1, 2021
Prof. Monia Mazigh, recently appointed as adjunct professor to the Department of English and Literature, has just published an op-ed at the Ottawa Citizen about her own experience as a Muslim Canadian two decades after the events of 9/11. In “9/11 aftermath: A life destroyed by the ‘War of Terror’,” Prof. Mazigh reflects upon... More
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