We are thrilled to be welcoming four new faculty to the Department of English Language and Literatures: Sarika Bose, Ayasha Guerin, Christine Kim and Derek Woods.
"Reading Animality" How do we define the human by excluding the animal? How do racial, sexual, and other forms of difference overlap with human-animal difference in contemporary literature and culture?
World Literature in English Tara Lee Term 1 MWF, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM Magic, Border Crossing, and Postcolonial Imaginings This course delves into the wonder, pain, and possibilities of storytelling in works set in Australia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Jamaica, and India, as well as in spaces of transit and transformation. Each of these locations embody complex […]
Introduction to Indigenous Literatures This course will examine contemporary articulations of Indigenous identity, politics and cultural traditions in the field of literature, through the genres of the novel, poetry, plays/drama, film, and other modes of resurgent cultural expression.
Approaches to Media History Derek Woods Term 2 MWF, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM In this course, we zoom out to do an overview of media history by looking at three interlocking regions. The first is the region of system, understood in terms of the relationship between media, social organization, and power, from the early writing systems […]
"‘I would Prefer Not To’: Work in US Literature" One of COVID-19’s effects has been to complicate our relationship with work. In the US, unemployment rates have shot up, “essential” labour is being redefined and in many cases coerced, and labour activism is on the rise. This course will shed light on current struggles by looking to the US’s rich history of literature about work [...]
"So Much Drama! 18th-Century Theatre After the silence of the Puritan Commonwealth, London’s theatres burst into social, artistic and ideological prominence in the long eighteenth century. Through heroic drama, tragedy, burlesque, laughing comedy, weeping comedy, plays contributed to cultural dialogues on the relative identities of the nation and the individual through such conflicting elements as noble heroics, razor wit, political subversion, historical revisionism, and some rather explicit sex.[...]
We are thrilled to be welcoming four new faculty to the Department of English Language and Literatures: Sarika Bose, Ayasha Guerin, Christine Kim and Derek Woods.
We are delighted to announce that Gisèle Baxter is year's recipient of the Ian Fairclough Teaching Prize. [...]
Congratulations to Dr. Ira Nadel on receiving the Dean of Arts Award for 2019-2020. [...]
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Speechsong – The Gould/Schoenberg Dialogues
Richard Cavell
Historians on John Gower
Edited by Stephen Rigby with Siân Echard
Ovidian Transversions, ‘Iphis and Ianthe’, 1300-1650
Edited by Valerie Traub - Patricia Badir and Peggy McCracken
Creating Canadian English: The Professor, the Mountaineer, and a National Variety of English
Stefan Dollinger
The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction
Zachary Lesser (Editor) - Daniel Allington - David A. Brewer - Stephen Colclough and Siân Echard
The Pluricentricity Debate
Stefan Dollinger
Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary Imagination
Edited by Vin Nardizzi and Tiffany Jo Werth
Canadian Literature
Laura Moss
Why Indigenous Literatures Matter
Daniel Justice
