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Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Congratulations Professor Jody Mason!

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

Friday, July 10, 2020

Contract Instructor Opportunity Fall 2020

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 course during the Fall Term 2020: ENGL... More

Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Addressing Systemic Racism at Carleton

The Department of English Language and Literature endorses the statement, “Addressing Systemic Racism at Carleton,” with its concrete and material demands to help redress the legacies of systemic anti-Black racism in our community. Aware of the role that educational institutions have played in perpetuating racism in all its forms, we affirm... More

Thursday, July 2, 2020

Spotlight on Research — The Presence of Rome in Medieval and Early Modern Britain: Texts, Artefacts and Beliefs

Prof. Andrew Wallace has a new book forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. The Presence of Rome in Medieval and Early Modern Britain: Texts, Artefacts and Beliefs explores the cultural and intellectual stakes of medieval and Renaissance Britain’s sense of itself as living in the shadow of Rome, a city whose name could designate the... More

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Congratulations Class of 2020

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Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Professor Mayurika Chakravorty: Why our focus shouldn’t be on removing Carleton’s Gandhi statue

Professor Mayurika Chakravorty writes an opinion piece to The Ottawa Citizen about Gandhi’s change of heart on racism and subsequent long-standing relationship with African-American leaders and activists in the United... More

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Contract Instructor Opportunity Fall 2020

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 course during the Fall Term 2020: ENGL... More

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Contract Instructor Opportunities Fall 2020

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 course during the Fall Term 2020: ENGL... More

Thursday, May 7, 2020

Manahil Bandukwala wins FASS Summer Research Internship Award!

Members of Carleton's Department of English Language and Literature extend their heartfelt congratulations to Manahil Bandukwala for having been awarded one of the highly competitive FASS Summer Research Internship awards. Manahil is an English major in her final year of study and will be spending her summer working on a project... More

Friday, May 1, 2020

Spotlight on Research: Leslie Savath

Doctoral candidate Leslie Savath has an article entitled “La Corriveau d’Anne Hébert : Traverser d’un côté à l’autre des barreaux” forthcoming in a special issue of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature in honour of the life and work of E.D. Blodgett. Savath’s article examines the representation of the Québécois legend... More

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