Calling all 4th year (Honours) students in ENGL, ENCW, and WRDS!
Please join us for a Welcome and Orientation Session in the Department of English.
Date: Tuesday, September 5th, 2023
Time: 3:30-4:30
Where: GLA 164
Light refreshments will be provided.
It’s official – Professor Lissa Paul is now a faculty member of the Department of English Language & Literature! She is also the director of the PhD Program in Interdisciplinary Humanities.
Looking forward to seeing you in the department, Lissa!
Dr. Erin Akerman joined the Department of English Language and Literature on June 1, 2023. Photo credit: Erin Akerman
Introducing our newest faculty member, Assistant Professor Erin Akerman! She recently completed her PhD at Western University in Indigenous literary studies with a focus on nineteenth-century Indigenous literatures. Professor Akerman is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario from the Georgian Bay Métis Community. This year, she will teach ENGL 1P91: Decolonizing Literature, ENGL 2P64: Early Canadian Literature, and a new course ENGL 4V77: Early Indigenous Women’s Writing.
Welcome to Brock, Professor Akerman!
Elizabeth Sauer congratulates CSRS Past-President Kenneth Graham (University of Waterloo) on a job very well done.
Professor Elizabeth Sauer was named President of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies / Société canadienne d’études de la Renaissance at the 2023 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.
The Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies is dedicated to encouraging multidisciplinary studies in the Renaissance by students and established scholars in both official languages.
La Société canadienne d’études de la Renaissance a pour vocation d’encourager les études multidisciplinaires sur la Renaissance dans les deux langues officielles auprès des étudiants et des chercheurs.
The Society sponsors the bilingual scholarly journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme and News with information for members, and organizes an annual meeting as part of the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities.
Congratulations, Professor Sauer! Félicitations!
Congratulations to Professor Elizabeth Sauer, the 2022 Honored Scholar of the Milton Society of America (MSA)! She recently delivered an address to the MSA titled, “Milton, Heidegger, Ayesha Ramachandran, and Pheng Cheah on Worldmaking.”
The Honored Scholar distinction dates back to 1948 and includes C.S. Lewis (1954) and Northrop Frye (1975).
A comprehensive list of Professor Sauer’s scholarly works are listed in the MSA’s 2023 Annual Booklet on pages 7-14.
Her award was previously reported in the BrockNews.
Congratulations to Professor Mathew Martin and Professor Sue Spearey for receiving the 2023 Brock Distinguished Service Award!
The Faculty of Humanities Distinguished Service Award is an internal award that recognizes the significant impact the nominee’s service activities have had on the University, the Faculty of Humanities and community.
Photo of Prof. Martin courtesy of Prof. Leah Knight.
Professor Tim Conley has recently released a new collection of short fiction, “Some Day We Will Look Back on this and Laugh,” through the Slovenian publisher Corona/Samizdat.
“This collection of suspicious glimpses, transitory disturbances, and apocalypses postponed makes for disorientation and even light-headedness. Readers may feel the need to laugh, but not more than is advisable. Among the assorted hijinks in these pages are a global kangaroo revolution, a fatal duel over a sneeze, spots of melancholy, a telepathic gazebo, various disguises, and a demon awaiting its release from a box of breakfast cereal.”
Copies can be purchased directly from the publisher, or from our local St. Catharines bookstore, Someday Books.
