{"id":23950,"date":"2023-11-22T15:41:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T20:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?p=23950"},"modified":"2025-09-22T08:32:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:32:46","slug":"spotlight-on-research-faculty-and-students-featured-in-the-latest-issue-of-book-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/2023\/spotlight-on-research-faculty-and-students-featured-in-the-latest-issue-of-book-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on Research: Department of English Faculty and Students featured in the latest issue of Book History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Spotlight on Research: Department of English Faculty and Students featured in the latest issue of Book History\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest issue of the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/issue\/50972\"><em>Book History<\/em><\/a> features the work of not fewer than three members of our department! Prof. Sarah Brouillette\u2019s article <a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/pub\/1\/article\/910954\">\u201cWattpad, Platform Capitalism, and the Feminization of Publishing Work\u201d<\/a> argues that Wattpad&#8217;s success reflects and reinforces trends in the distribution of publishing work and profits. Key among these trends, Brouillette argues, is the feminization of labour and the habits of thinking about reading and writing that support it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/sarah-pelletier\/\">Sarah Pelletier<\/a>, a fourth-year doctoral candidate in English, Prof. Jody Mason co-authored <a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/pub\/1\/article\/910956\">\u201c\u2018Singular Plurality\u2019: Settler-Colonial Transcendence and Canada\u2019s Guest-of-Honour Campaign at the 2021 Frankfurt Book Fair.\u201d<\/a> Examining how reconciliation folds Indigenous writers and their work into a creative-economy logic that depends on cultural diversity as a unifying sign, Mason and Pelletier contend that a campaign more attentive to the unique needs of Indigenous-owned and -operated <em>publishers<\/em> in Canada would make visible the fact that reconciliation is not simply a matter of culture but always also a matter of political and economic sovereignty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/Book-History-240x346.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23951\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest issue of the journal Book History features the work of not fewer than three members of our department! Prof. Sarah Brouillette\u2019s article \u201cWattpad, Platform Capitalism, and the Feminization of Publishing Work\u201d argues that Wattpad&#8217;s success reflects and reinforces trends in the distribution of publishing work and profits. Key among these trends, Brouillette argues, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,144,33,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-publications-successes","category-faculty-publications","category-news","category-sor"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23950"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27309,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23950\/revisions\/27309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}