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Saturday, May 1, 2021

Spotlight on Research: “Frank Herbert’s Ecology, Oregon’s Dunes, and the Postwar Science of Desert Reclamation.” Veronika Kratz

Veronika Kratz, a senior PhD candidate in the Department of English, has recently had an article published in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment titled “Frank Herbert’s Ecology, Oregon’s Dunes, and the Postwar Science of Desert Reclamation." The essay is available online as an advance article here. The essay... More

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Contract Instructor Opportunities Fall/Winter 2021-22

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 during the 2021/22 Fall/Winter... More

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Wreaths for a Wayfarer: Poetry and Impermanence

The Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English is hosting an event in honour of our former colleague and friend Pius Adesanmi. Thursday, April 29th at 1 p.m. EDT: Wreaths for a Wayfarer: Poetry and Impermanence Register now for the final installment of ACCUTE’s Pandemic Webinar Series, Wreaths for a Wayfarer: Poetry... More

Monday, April 19, 2021

Emily’s Blog: Goodbye, Undergrad

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Thursday, April 15, 2021

Jaclyn’s Blog – So Long Carleton!

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Thursday, April 1, 2021

Spotlight on Research – Professor Nduka Otiono “The Night Hides With a Knife”

Professor Nduka Otiono, who holds a cross appointment in English and African Studies, has several new publications coming out this year. His short story collection, The Night Hides With a Knife, originally published in 1995, will be issued this month in a silver anniversary edition by New Horn Press (in conjunction with Mace Associates... More

Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Watch the 2021 Munro Beattie Lecture with Seth

Watch the recording from Saturday, March 20th, 2021   Seth’s cartoons have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, McSweeneys Quarterly, and on the cover of The New Yorker. He is the creator of the comic book series Palookaville. Other books include It’s a Good Life if You Don’t Weaken (1996), The Great Northern Brotherhood of... More

Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Winners of the 2021 Annual Poetry Competitions

This year’s competition judge is Brecken Hancock.  Her poetry book, Broom, Broom, published with Coach House Press, won the Trillium Award in 2015. She has also published poems with Grain, Fiddlehead, and CV2, and served as reviews editor for Arc Poetry Magazine.  She lives in Ottawa. The Department of English would like to congratulate... More

Monday, March 15, 2021

Spotlight on Research – Professor Dana Dragunoiu’s “Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Moral Acts”

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

Thursday, March 4, 2021

Jaclyn’s Blog – From the Faculty: How’s it Going?

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Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Spotlight on Research – ‘Not Enough Raven’: Reading Lee Maracle’s Ravensong as Counter-Hegemonic Ethnography

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

Thursday, February 11, 2021

Announcing English Department Poetry Competitions for 2021!

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