MA student听Shailee Rajak joins CBC Radio One's听"All in a Weekend" this Sunday, September 24th, to discuss her recently published children's book听Sita and Helen. Shailee and host Sonali Karnick will be talking about the book, its intercultural value, its foregrounding of a feminist perspective, and the importance of having it read by children of all backgrounds.听
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The Department of English is proud to recognize the following students who have been selected for the awards and scholarships listed below for the 2022-2023 academic year.
(The writing prizes are determined by committees made up of professors in the Department of English, who review submissions with the authors鈥� names removed.)
Catherine Bradley - Head of Wardrobe, costume designer, researcher, and teacher in the Department of English - was awarded the H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching!
To mark World Poetry Month, the Arts News team spoke to Professor Miranda Hickman (Department of English) and students Anushree Joshi (MA, English), James Jarrett (U3, English and Music) and recent alum Jana Perkins (MA, English) about the importance of poetry and how research and community initiatives such as Poetry Matters are building spaces for poetic discussions both on and beyond McGill's campus.
Cree-M茅tis scholar Dr. Deanna Reder did not study Indigenous literatures as an undergraduate. At the time such courses did not exist at her university. Propelled by this lack, she began to read outside of the conventional canon, with a keen eye on texts written by Cree or M茅tis authors. By the time she began her doctoral work in 2001, the field began to shift and a generation of 21st Century Indigenous writers began to be published.
Listen to Professor Alexander Manshel,听author of the forthcoming book听Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon, in the podcast听On the Media. Manshel speaks of the ressurgence of historical novels and their focus on disregarded histories in the segment "How Historical Novels Can Help Us Remember".
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Professor Fiona Ritchie has been awarded a short-term Visiting Fellowship at Jesus College, University of Oxford, which she will take up in Winter 2023 during her sabbatic leave. While in Oxford, Professor Ritchie will conduct archival research for her research project on women and regional theatre in Britain in the long eighteenth century.
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Professor Robert Lecker has been awarded the prestigious , a biennial prize recognizing achievement in critical or imaginative literature from the Royal Society of Canada.
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The Department of English is proud to recognize the following students who have been selected for the awards and scholarships listed below for the 2021-2022听academic year.
(The writing prizes are determined by committees made up of professors in the Department of English, who review submissions with the authors鈥� names removed.)
Professor Ara Osterweil contributed to The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonn茅, 1963-1965听(ed. John G. Hanhardt, Whitney Museum of Art), which was awarded the听
From the Royal Society of Canada website:
鈥淎llan Hepburn, an internationally renowned literary scholar, has published many books and articles on twentieth-century British, Irish, and American novels. Mid-century literature and culture are his particular expertise. His publications focus on convergences among espionage, human rights, citizenship, nuclear extinction, the Second World War, diplomacy, and fiction. He is a recognized authority on the novelist Elizabeth Bowen. He holds the James McGill Chair in Twentieth Century Literature at McGill University. 鈥�
