Archives: SOR

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Spotlight on Research: Doctoral Candidate Sarah Dorward has published in the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada

Doctoral candidate Sarah Dorward has just published “Embracing ‘Elsewhereness’: May Agnes Fleming and Late Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Authorship” in the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada. Arguing that authorship in Canada during the nineteenth century was fundamentally transatlantic, Sarah shows that authors who resided... More

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Spotlight on Research: Contract Instructor John Coleman has published a new article in Modern Fiction Studies

Congratulations to Dr. John Coleman for the publication of his new article, "The Business Case for Diversity: Hari Kunzru's Transmission as Commentary on Racialized Literary Promotions," which has recently been published in Modern Fiction Studies. Coleman argues that Kunzru’s novel Transmission allegorizes the experiences of Black, Asian, and... More

Monday, November 18, 2024

Spotlight on Research: Professor Jody Mason has recently published in Research in African Literatures

Professor Jody Mason has just published “The Margaret Wrong Memorial Fund, Late Colonial Development, and the Prizing of African Literatures, 1950-62” in Research in African Literatures. The essay argues that the history of the Margaret Wrong Memorial Fund (MWMF) and its literary prize (1950–62) renders visible the influence of late colonial... More

Friday, August 2, 2024

Summer Spotlight on Research: Professor Philip Kaisary has published a new book

Prof. Philip Kaisary (cross-appointed to Law and Legal Studies / ICSLAC / and English) has a new book, From Havana to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary! It was published a few weeks ago by SUNY Press. The book aspires to promote an understanding of historical and contemporary racial injustice, arguing that Cuban cinema... More

Thursday, May 2, 2024

Spotlight on Research: Prof. Sarah Brouillette’s Research Explores How Social Media Platforms Are Changing Conditions in the Publishing Industry

Carleton News Room recently highlighted Prof. Sarah Brouillette research on TikTok, which she argues is one among a handful of social media platforms changing the conditions that writers and other publishing industry workers face today. You can find out more about this work at Post 45, where Prof. Brouillette and Susanna Sacks track the... More

Monday, April 8, 2024

Spotlight on Research: PhD student Dana Mitchell featured in the program of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference

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

Spotlight on Research: PhD candidate Meghan Tibbits-Lamirande publishes a new article

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

Spotlight on Research: Professor Siobhain Bly Calkin publishes a new article

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

Spotlight on Research: Professor Micheline White’s research highlighted by CTV News

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

Spotlight on Research: Department of English Faculty and Students featured in the latest issue of Book History

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

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

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

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