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Monday, March 15, 2021
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Monday, March 2, 2020
Veronika Kratz, a PhD candidate in English, has just published an essay in a collection called Silver Linings: Clouds in Art and Science (eds. Dolly Jørgensen and Finn Arne Jørgensen, Museumsforlaget, 2020). Silver Linings is a collection of essays from a wide variety of disciplines looking at how we perceive and understand clouds. The... More
Saturday, February 1, 2020
Faculty members in English have been busy, as the number of new titles on the faculty bookshelf attests! Professor Sarah Brouillette’s book UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary was published in the fall of 2019 by Stanford University Press. A case study of one of the most important global institutions of cultural policy... More
Thursday, January 16, 2020
Dr. Matthew Scribner has recently published a book chapter in a scholarly collection of essays titled Darkness, Depression, and Descent in Anglo-Saxon England and edited by Ruth Wehlau (Medieval Institute Publications, 2019). The chapter in question is titled “Signs, Interpretation, and Exclusion in Beowulf” (117-132). Congratulations Dr.... More
Monday, September 16, 2019
Professor Micheline White was awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2-3 years) for a project entitled “Elite Tudor Women’s Prayer Books as Material, Devotional, and Socio-Political Artefacts.” She will be examining the deluxe prayers books created by Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset, Lady Jane Wriothesley, and Queen Katherine... More
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