Archives: Munro Beattie

Friday, April 12, 2024

Professor Sarah Casteel interviewed on CBC Radio’s All in a Day

Prof. Sarah Casteel was interviewed on April 11th on CBC Radio’s program All In a Day about her new book Black Lives Under Nazism (Columbia University Press, 2024). Launched at the National Gallery of Canada later that same day, Prof. Casteel’s book explores a range of largely overlooked literary and artistic works that challenge... 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

Thursday, March 21, 2024

Professors Barbara Leckie and Julie Murray have been awarded SSCHRC funding for 2024

Congratulations to Profs. Barbara Leckie and Julie Murray, who have been awarded funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada in its 2024 competitions! Prof. Leckie (along with a co-applicant from the University of Ottawa), received a Connection Grant for “Common Sense: Planetary Curriculums for a Planetary... More

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Professor Sarah Phillips Casteel Book Launch – Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art

Join us for Sarah Phillips Casteel’s book launch and discussion presented by Carleton University’s Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis.  In a little-known chapter of World War II, people of African descent in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe were subjected to a variety of forms of persecution, including imprisonment in internment and... More

Friday, March 8, 2024

Dr Chris Eaket has been awarded a Contract Instructor Teaching Award

Congratulations to Dr. Chris Eaket of English and Humanities, who has been awarded a Contract Instructor Teaching Award as part of the university-wide Annual Achievement Awards! Dr. Eaket is interested in the intersection between media and embodiment, the humanistic philosophies behind science fiction, and the politics of climate change. He has... 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 27, 2024

Visit FASS! Be a University Student for a Day

Spend a day at Carleton and experience life as a university student firsthand! Through the Student for a Day program, you'll be paired up with a current Arts and Social Sciences student and get the chance to attend a class, have lunch on us, and learn more about our programs, campus, and professors, as well as... More

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Fall 2024 – Winter 2025

The information on this page is preliminary and subject to change. Fall 2024 ENGL 5120F: Book Arts Workshop Prof. Jody Mason Topic: Small-Press Publishing in Canada This course takes twentieth- and early twenty-first-century small-press publishing in Canada as its focus. A book arts workshop that will be conducted in the Book Arts Lab and... More

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Prof. Sarah Waisvisz Publishes Heartlines with Methuen Drama

A graduate of the PhD in English at Carleton in 2014, Prof. Waisvisz is now Assistant Professor in the DAN School of Drama and Music at Queen’s University. A playwright, dramaturge, and multi-disciplinary performer, Prof. Waisvisz’s two-act play Heartlines (about queer-Jewish activists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore) premiered to sold-out... 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

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

The English Department is pleased to announce our annual Lilian I. Found and George Johnston Poetry Competitions!

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Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Elizabeth Dizon (MA 2021) Begins A Law Degree

After completing a Master’s degree in English in 2021, which included a Master’s Research Paper on feminist literary responses to reproductive rights during the women’s liberation movement, Elizabeth Dizon worked for the City of Calgary as a Student Lease Analyst. She is now a J.D. candidate at the University of Calgary. Bravo,... More

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