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Carleton English Professor Pius Adesanmi interviewed for the maiden edition of the LSE Africa Summit Podcast Series. The series are dedicated to interviewing specialists of Africa by the London School of Economics. Professor Adesanmi is the author of the acclaimed You Are Not a Country, Africa, winner of the Penguin Prize for African Writing... More
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
When Dave Lemke (BA, English, 2008) was twelve years old, his father handed him a small, inexpensive Canon camera. The gift was given in advance of a whale-watching boat tour on a family trip to New England. Young Dave Lemke took more than a hundred photographs with this camera, including a stunning image of... More
Thursday, October 23, 2014
This week, Professor Sarah Brouillette will be delivering a talk at Oxford University featuring her latest research on "UNESCO and the Sociology of Literature." Professor Sarah Brouillette is also a winner of the prestigious SSHRC Insight Grant (2013-2017), as well as a Carleton Research Achievement Award (2014-15). Professor Brouillette’s... More
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Congratulations to Chris Vanderwees! The Department of English would like to congratulate John Christopher Vanderwees, who recently defended his PhD dissertation entitled: Aesthetics of Terror: Reflections on Post-9/11 Literature and Visual Culture. Chris was supervised by Professor Priscilla Walton. Of his time at Carleton, Chris says: "I... More
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Tavis Apramian’s journey as a student has been a unique one. The first time he was forced to choose between two passions, he chose academia over athletics, but the second time he faced a decision between two passions, he chose ‘all of the above.’ Apramian is now flourishing in two very different fields –... More
Friday, June 6, 2014
Lynn Coady, winner of the 2013 Giller Prize for her short story collection Hellgoing, explains the value of her English degree from Carleton: My time at Carleton studying for a double major in English and Philosophy was essential to my development as a writer. After a year of underachieving in a “practical” program which I... More
Saturday, November 23, 2013
Graduate of Master of Arts in English Literature (2005), and Bachelor of Arts Honours, double major in Film Studies and English Literature (2004), Kevin T. Johns is set to release his debut young adult paranormal horror novel, The Page Turners. Critics have described The Pager Turners as a “crimson-stained love letter to genre fiction.” The... More
Friday, October 18, 2013
Jenna Jarvis is a Master’s student in English literature at Carleton University, where she completed a BA in the same subject and, for a time, edited In/Words Magazine. She has lived in Ottawa all her life—yet the city, with all its ungovernmental stirrings, has never allowed her to develop writer’s block. Her favourite sorts... More
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