Awards

• Professor’s SSHRC Funded Research with Canadian Author in the BrockNews

  Friday, April 19, 2024 | By lbetts

  

  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!

  Categories: Awards, English Faculty, Presentations

• Professor Knight Awarded MLA-EBSCO Literacy Prize

  Tuesday, December 19, 2023 | By lbetts

  Professor Leah Knight, together with Head Archivist David Sharron, received the 2023 MLA-EBSCO Collaboration for Information Literacy Prize for the course design of MARS/ENGL 4P01: Sources and Methods in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 

  From the MLA website: “Thanks to a generous grant from EBSCO, the Modern Language Association confers up to two annual awards of $500 each for coursework developed in collaboration between department faculty members and academic librarians in literature, language, or related disciplines. The award recognizes successful integration of the disciplinary objectives of the course with learning objectives in information literacy, as defined in the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. ”

  Congratulations, Leah and David!

  

  Professor Leah Knight (pointing)

  

  David Sharron (r), Head of Archives and Special Collections in the Brock Library, shows students rare documents.

   

  Categories: Awards, English Faculty

• Canadian Studies Network Awards Best Edited Collection Prize to Harriet’s Legacies

  Friday, September 29, 2023 | By lbetts

  Congratulations to Ronald Cummings and Natalee Caple! Their book, Harriet’s Legacies: Race, Historical Memory, and Futures in Canada, was selected by the Canadian Studies Network for the 2023 Best Edited Collection Prize.

  From the CSN news announcement:

  

  “Edited by Ronald Cummings and Natalee Caple, Harriet’s Legacies uses the brief but important residence of Harriet Tubman in southern Ontario (Canada West, to be precise) as a starting point to explore new meanings of the origins, experiences, and trajectory of the Black diaspora in Canada. The book sheds new light on the profound transnational significance of the American cultural figure and activist by moving existing discourses beyond national boundaries in ways that invite us to think more fully about the diasporic dynamics that inform African Canadian life. Adopting a resolutely multidisciplinary approach and gathering the work of various artists and scholars in Black Studies, the 21-chapter volume does not simply look back but sees the impact of Harriet Tubman “as ongoing, collective practices of antiracism and freedom seeking.” In doing so, Harriet’s Legacies provides a renewed vigour for both African Canadian Studies and the pursuit of social justice in our times.”

  Categories: Awards, English Faculty

• Professor Lissa Paul joins the Royal Society of Canada

  Thursday, September 07, 2023 | By lbetts

  Congratulations to Professor Lissa Paul! She was named a Royal Fellow in the Academy of Arts and Humanities on September 5, 2023. The official announcement was made in Tuesday edition of the Globe and Mail.

  Please read the full citation here.

  

  Categories: Awards, English Faculty

• Professor Elizabeth Sauer named President of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies / Société canadienne d’études de la Renaissance

  Thursday, June 08, 2023 | By lbetts

  

  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!

  Categories: Awards, English Faculty

• Professor Elizabeth Sauer recognized by the Milton Society of America

  Wednesday, April 26, 2023 | By lbetts

  

  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.

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• English Professors Receive Distinguished Service Awards

  Thursday, April 13, 2023 | By lbetts

  

  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.

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