Brock University English Students’ Association presents a new undergraduate journal ‘The Sett’.
You can read the publication here
Congratulations ESA students on the publication on Volume 1 of The Sett!
Congratulations to Jessie Hendriks who was awarded the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education’s (CSSHE) Master’s Thesis Award for “Digital Horizons: Faculty and Student Perspectives on ChatGPT and the future of English Students”.
Read more about Jessie’s project here
Learn more about the CSSHE here
We are excited to share our Spring & Summer 2025 courses: “The Short Story” and “The Master Student”!
Both courses are available to register into TODAY.
Visit: Register for spring/summer classes – Admissions @ Brock
Spring 2025 Courses – 1
Happy New Year!
The CSRS/SCÉR Board wishes you a happy and fulfilling New Year. As we look toward conferencing in 2025, we want to share some information about our gathering, some special sessions the Society is hosting, and some initiatives we encourage you to consider this year.
To learn more, visit here: CSRS-SCÉR-2025
Congratulations to Professor Susan Spearey who was co-ordinating editor of a Guest-Edited Special Issue of Studies in Social Justice entitled “Reckoning Repairing Reworlding: The (in)humanities, Artistic Practices, and Planetary Crisis” which came out on 10 December 2024.
This Special Issue was produced collaboratively and involved mentorship of young and early-career academics who served as co-editors and was 3 years in the making. I was lead author on the Editor’s Introduction and co-author of the Editors’ Outro.
Congratulations to Professor Andrew Pendakis on his newest publication with
Book: “Living a Marxist Life: Why Marx is a Drug You Should Probably Take”.
The last ten years have seen a dramatic upsurge of interest in socialist theory and politics. As a recent Washington Postop-ed put it, “We are living in a new social democratic moment”. People are increasingly drawn to Marxist theory but find it difficult to imagine how it can be integrated practically into an everyday life pervaded by capitalist norms and social practices. Often intuitively, they agree with Marx’s critique of capitalism, but don’t know how to bridge the gap between their sense of dissatisfaction with the present and a revolutionary solution which can feel indefinitely postponed and remote. Living a Marxist Life responds to this disconnect by framing Marxism not as a mere “theory” but as a practical philosophical truth-a lived practice that immediately changes the reality of those experimenting with it. From Frida Kahlo to Jean-Luc Godard, Pablo Picasso to Angela Davis, Marxists are not dry theoreticians but embodied agents of a process that is as inten
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.
