Our own Elizabeth Sauer is one of 10 Brock professors who have been awarded the honorary title of Distinguished Professor, awarded by the Office of the President at this year’s Spring Convocation.
Congratulations, Distinguished Professor Sauer!
Please see the Brock News for more about the distinction and the full list of recipients.
GPD Professor Carole Stewart and MA Candidate Claire Thyne… with Cows. Photo courtesy of Carole Stewart.
The Janet Sackfie Book Prize is open to MA students in English and is awarded annually to the best essay submitted as part of the regular coursework in fall and winter semesters.
This prize was established to recognize the contributions of Janet Sackfie to the Department of English Language and Literature, where she served as Administrative Assistant for over a decade during her 25 years at Brock.
The graduate committee members acknowledged that “all the papers submitted were impressive; indeed, they all had such different strengths and merits that the decision was not easy. In the end, Claire Thyne’s “R is for Resting” stood out for its creativity in combining genres and its innovation to a theoretically significant topic.”
Congratulations, Claire!
The Undergraduate Program Committee is delighted to announce the winners and runners-up for our 2023-2024 Departmental Prizes. Congratulations to all!
Audrey Gignac, “The Inevitability of Aging: Enjambment in “Sending My Mother Home After My Surgery”’
Cora Holt, ENGL 1P94, “The Diseased Population”
Gabe Piessens
Jade Morningstar, “Exercising my Prerogative”
(Runner-Up) Lily Young, “Go Away, Anna”
Mia Smith, ENGL 4P45, “I wish somebody would write me a loveletter”: An Analysis of Translation and Language’s Function and Significance in James Joyce’s Ulysses
Rose Divecha, PCUL 2P93, “Micronarratives and Social Media: Was Rear Window the Precursor to Scrolling?”
Lily Young
Dana Alrifai
Mikayla Keniry
Colin Clifford Spencer
Victoria Augustine
Miriam Dieckmann
Congratulations to Professors Ann Howey and Martin Danahay on their new publication!
“Neo-Victorianism and Medievalism: Re-appropriating the Victorian and Medieval Pasts” came out on May 2, 2024 from Brill.com.
Do you have an English essay that deserves a place in the sun? Are you a creative writer looking for a place to submit your work? Or, are you an upper year English major who has contributed to extracurricular activities? The Department of English is accepting applications until Monday, May 6, 2024, for the following Prizes:
Please submit your works to Liz Keenan (lkeenan@brocku.ca) or directly to Professor Gregory Betts (gbetts@brocku.ca). Good luck!
The 2024 English Graduate Student Colloquium was held on Tuesday, April 23 in Sankey Chamber. The student-organized poster session was well attended by faculty and students from past and present. Congratulations to Maddie, Olivia, Jaime, Zoe, Claire, and Jessie on your amazing presentations!
Author, actor, and playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald (centre) visits with Professor Aaron Mauro of Digital Humanities (L) and our own Professor Neta Gordon (R). Photo credit: the Brock News.
Last month’s visit from Ann-Marie MacDonald was featured in this week’s Brock News. Professor Neta Gordon, along with Professor Aaron Mauro (Digital Humanities), Professor Ebru Ustundag (Geography and Tourism Studies), and Tim Ribaric (Library), have been awarded SSHRC funding to bring in MacDonald as a research collaborator on their project, “Mapping Ann-Marie MacDonald.” Congratulations to all!
Professor Knight (third from right) shares her eclipse exhibition materials with her class.
Professor Leah Knight will be a part of the Eclipse on the Escarpment event on April 8th, hosted by the Faculty of Mathematics and Science (registration on ExperienceBU). Her exhibit, “ ‘Dark shall by thy sun’: Imagining eclipses in early modern England,” will be on display in the Ian Beddis Gymnasium from 12-4pm.
Read all about it in the Brock News!
Professor Neta Gordon brought in a very special guest on March 19 to her graduate class, ENGL 5V56: The Politics and Art of Orientation in the work of Ann-Marie MacDonald.
Back row, L to R: Claire Thyne, Zoe Williams, Faith Lokaisingh, Olivia Hay, Jaime Bastien, Maddie Beaulieau
Front: Ann-Marie MacDonald
Photo: Neta Gordon
Author, actor, and playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald spent the morning in the classroom with the MA English grad students. In the afternoon she met with the research team of Gordon’s SSHRC-funded “Mapping Ann-Marie MacDonald” project. Look for the upcoming feature story in the Brock News!
Join our own Professor Adam Dickinson along with Christine Daigle (Philosophy) and Francine McCarthy (Earth Sciences), on Wednesday, March 27, at the St. Catharines Public Library for a public lecture, “The Anthropocene as Scientific and Cultural Concept (for our Times)”
For more information, see the event posting on ExperienceBU, as well as the recent Brock News article. Hope to see you there!
