ɫֱ News - Dept. of English /channels/news_feeds/all/term/english/rss en Professor Alexander Manshel has won the MELUS Book Award /channels/channels/news/professor-alexander-manshel-has-won-melus-book-award-370482 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h2>Congratulations to Professor Manshel for winning the MELUS Book Award!</h2> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/manshel_writing_backwards.jpg?itok=JyhS0XPw" width="160" height="85" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">20 </span><span class="month">January </span><span class="year">2026</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:28:53 +0000 webfull 214989 at /channels Professor Erin Hurley receives SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant /channels/channels/news/professor-erin-hurley-receives-sshrc-partnership-engage-grant-370478 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h2>Congratulations to Professor Erin Hurley for receiving a SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant!</h2> <div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/hurley_headshot_2023.jpg?itok=pgqjbaXo" width="160" height="107" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">20 </span><span class="month">January </span><span class="year">2026</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:10:08 +0000 webfull 214985 at /channels Carmen Faye Mathes Has Been Awarded the 2025 Keats-Shelley Association Essay Prize /channels/channels/news/carmen-faye-mathes-has-been-awarded-2025-keats-shelley-association-essay-prize-370450 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h2>Congratulations to Professor Carmen Faye Mathes!</h2> <p><a href="/english/staff/carmen-mathes">Professor Mathes</a> has been awared the 2025 Keats-Shelley Association Essay Prize for her essay “Apostrophe’s Occasions: Two Postures of Abolitionist Address.”</p> <p>The committee writes:</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/mathes_headshot_banner.jpg?itok=o9DYODHd" width="160" height="86" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">20 </span><span class="month">January </span><span class="year">2026</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:44:54 +0000 webfull 214957 at /channels Ricardo Wilson is the 2025-26 Mordecai Richler Writer-in-Residence /channels/channels/news/ricardo-wilson-2025-26-mordecai-richler-writer-residence-369991 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The <strong>Department of English</strong> is delighted to announce Professor <strong>Ricardo Wilson </strong>as the 2025-2026 <strong>Mordecai Richler Writer-in-Residence</strong>.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/richler2026_rwilson_banner.jpg?itok=BxeJW69N" width="160" height="80" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">22 </span><span class="month">December </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div> Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:19:50 +0000 webfull 214450 at /channels Camille Owens Receives Honorable Mention for "Like Children" /channels/channels/news/camille-owens-receives-honorable-mention-children-369782 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h2>Congratulations to Professor Camille Owens!</h2> <h3>Professor Owens received an honorable mention from the Modern Language Association of America for her book <a href="https://nyupress.org/9781479812929/like-children/"><em>Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America</em></a>.</h3> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/owens_faculty_spotlight.jpg?itok=85z5Zdr8" width="160" height="107" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">11 </span><span class="month">December </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div> Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:25:46 +0000 webfull 214209 at /channels Prof. Sandeep Banerjee on CBC Ideas /channels/channels/news/prof-sandeep-banerjee-cbc-ideas-369289 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h2>Professor Sandeep Banerjee was a guest in the<strong> </strong>CBC Ideas episode "How this 19th-century Indian feminist flipped the colonial travelogue on its head."</h2> <h2 class="bl-tpl"><strong><a class="button--outline" href="https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16168730-pandita-ramabai-a-19th-century-indian-feminist-travelled-world">Listen to the episode</a></strong></h2> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/banerjee_headshot_low.jpg?itok=5qdIFiPM" width="160" height="160" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">24 </span><span class="month">November </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div> Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:51:45 +0000 webfull 213639 at /channels Professor Manshel's 'Writing Backwards' was awarded the 2026 Perkins Prize! /channels/channels/news/professor-manshels-writing-backwards-was-awarded-2026-perkins-prize-368695 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h2>Congratulations to Professor Alexander Manshel for being awarded The Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize!</h2> <p><strong>2026 Perkins Prize Citation:</strong></p> <p><a href="https://cup.columbia.edu/book/writing-backwards/9780231211260/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAacjfQyhS7G7wpc8XtZWxts9C59RLas8xMhFeBXRWk-8fvoej-vbGL2R7329qQ_aem_IJMAxTRYtq4qKTiGaQgyeA">Alexander <span><span>Manshel, <i>Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon</i>. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024.</span></span></a></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/manshel_writingbackwards_square.jpg?itok=hL6PYt7M" width="160" height="160" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">3 </span><span class="month">November </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div> Mon, 03 Nov 2025 15:44:33 +0000 webfull 213003 at /channels Professor Nathalie Cooke appointed to Royal Society of Canada /channels/channels/news/professor-nathalie-cooke-appointed-royal-society-canada-367871 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h2><strong>Congratulations to Professor Nathalie Cooke on her election as a Fellow to the <span><span>Royal<span><span> Society <span><span>of <span><span>Canada!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></h2> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/banner_cooke_2.jpg?itok=f4iBLlVu" width="160" height="86" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">19 </span><span class="month">September </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div> Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:02:40 +0000 webfull 212061 at /channels Nathalie Cooke's Latest Book: Tastes and Traditions /channels/channels/news/nathalie-cookes-latest-book-tastes-and-traditions-366491 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h2><b><i>Tastes and Traditions: A Journey Through Menu History </i>by<i> </i>Professor Nathalie Cooke<br /> Published by Reaktion Books</b></h2> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/mh-019_edit.jpg?itok=v6Tvs4VP" width="160" height="160" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">19 </span><span class="month">August </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 19 Aug 2025 21:03:09 +0000 webfull 210544 at /channels Feminist pedagogy through creative assessments /channels/channels/news/feminist-pedagogy-through-creative-assessments-365049 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h2>Zine-making 101: Feminist pedagogy through creative assessments</h2> <div> <div> <div> <div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/higgins_marchand_pierotti_zine2.jpg?itok=tPfXDJCI" width="160" height="207" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">22 </span><span class="month">April </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 22 Apr 2025 20:34:40 +0000 webfull 208886 at /channels