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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
Wednesday, August 4, 2021
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
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
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
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
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