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Friday, January 15, 2021

Spotlight on Research – Emotional Labour in Victorian Culture

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

Spotlight on Research – The Origins of the Bible and Early Modern Political Thought

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

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Jaclyn’s Blog – The Most Wonderful Time of Year: Essay Season

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Friday, November 27, 2020

Spotlight on Research – The Prince and the Penny Chartist: The Great Exhibition in Reynolds’s Newspaper

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

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Jaclyn’s Blog – From the Students: How’s It Going?

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Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Artist in-residence for Drama Studies

Drama Studies has a new Future Funder campaign to raise funds to help us establish an Artist in-residence for Drama Studies. All donations to this project are truly appreciated and will benefit future students.   You can find more information about this campaign on the FutureFunder... More

Sunday, November 15, 2020

Congratulations Fall Convocation Medal Winners!

The English department would like to congratulate the following students who received an award in the 2020 Fall Convocation: Sarah Joy Hosmar, Bachelor of Arts Honours in English with a Concentration in Creative Writing: Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement – Undergraduate Alicia Louise Haniford, Master of Arts in English:... More

Monday, November 9, 2020

Contract Instructor Opportunity Summer 2021

Carleton University, Department of English Language & Literature Pursuant to Article 16 of the CUPE 4600 Unit 2 Collective Agreement, applications are invited from members of the CUPE 4600-2 bargaining unit and other interested persons to teach the following Department of English Language & Literature courses in Summer 2021: ENGL 1600 [0.5... More

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Winners of the 2019-2020 Flash Fiction Competition Announced!

The Department of English and the Creative Writing Concentration are pleased to announce the winners of the 2019-2020 Flash Fiction Competition. First Prize was awarded to Cossette Penner-Oliviera for her story "Monochrome." Second Prizes were awarded to both Sarah Waddington for her piece "Bloodstains Mistaken for Poppies" and Dana Foley for her... More

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Professor Jody Mason Captures The 2019 Gabrielle Roy Prize for Book on the Roots of Reading, Literacy, and Citizenship in Canada

The Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures (ACQL) is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2019 Gabrielle Roy Prize (English section), which each year honours the best work of Canadian literary criticism written in English, is Jody Mason for Home Feelings: Liberal Citizenship and the Canadian Reading Camp Movement (McGill-Queen’s... More

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Welcome back to the struggle

Here’s the thing – do I even have the right to say “welcome back” to a place where we are not? Ah, but academia is not so much a place as it is the opportunity to store precious knowledge into that squishy pink information processor inside our skulls, and we’re still doing that, right?... More

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Congratulations Amal El-Mohtar!

The Department of English Language and Literature would like to congratulate Amal El-Mohtar, a doctoral candidate in our department, for winning three literary awards for her This Is How You Lose the Time War. Co-authored with Max Gladstone, the novella has won the 2019 Nebula Award for Best Novella, the British Science Fiction Award for Best... More

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