On February 5, the Department of English honoured award recipients at the annual English Awards Reception. The program offers a number of awards each year, including prizes and scholarships that recognize the achievements of students in English and Creative Writing. Several awards were established to honour former faculty members, one honours the Department’s retired faculty, […]
Emma Healey is a writer from Toronto. Her most recent book, Best Young Woman Job Book: A Memoir, was published by Random House Canada in 2022. It was named a best book of the year by the Globe and Mail and Wired Magazine as well as CBC Radio's Q. It was also shortlisted for the […]
The Department of English mourns the passing of a long-time contract faculty member, Ila Goody. Prof. Goody earned her doctorate degree in English literature from the University of Toronto in the mid-seventies. She began teaching at York as a contract faculty member in 1984 and, over the years, taught an impressive variety of courses in […]
Wednesday, November 8, 2023 1:00pm-2:30pm Vanier College, Room 119 Derek McCormack will speak to the AP/CWR 4610: Senior Prose Workshop about queer experimental fiction, art writing, fashion, and independent publishing. This talk will include a short reading by Derek but will mostly comprise a free-flowing Q&A. Derek McCormack is the author of twelve works of […]
By Alexander Huls, deputy editor, YFile Professor Deanne Williams has introduced experiential education to two summer Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies courses – AP/EN 2140 Drama and AP/EN 3535 Shakespeare – by enabling students to see productions of the plays they are reading and studying. For her first time teaching these courses in the summer, Williams […]
Alison Halsall and Jonathan Warren received the 2023 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Academic/Scholarly Work for The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader: Critical Openings, Future Directions. The awards, named after the acclaimed comics creator Will Eisner, honour the best publications and creators in comics and graphic novels. "The LGBTQ Comics Studies Reader explores the […]
Author and Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) Professor Deanne Williams investigates the overlooked roles of girls in theatre – and performing arts in general – from the 10th through 17th centuries in her new book Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy (Bloomsbury, 2023). Williams’ research cites eyewitness testimony, stage directions, paintings […]
Natalie Neill’s scholarly edition of Mary Charlton’s Rosella, or Modern Occurrences (1799), was published by Routledge this month. Part Gothic parody, part travel narrative, Rosella is the most recent addition to Routledge’s Chawton House Library Women’s Novels Book Series. The edition is the first non-facsimile edition of the novel to appear since 1801. To learn […]
Karen Valihora, graduate program director and associate professor in the Department of English, purchased The Picton Gazette, a Prince Edward County historic weekly with the intent of continuing its community-building legacy. The Picton Gazette, first published as the Hallowell Free Press in 1830, had been owned by Jean Morrison, and her husband, since 1977. After her husband passed […]
Wendy McGrath is a poet, writer, and visual artist living in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton) on Treaty 6 Territory. McGrath’s writing practice embraces multiple genres—fiction, poetry, spoken word, and creative non-fiction. McGrath describes her writing as “Prairie Gothic” and gives voice to working class stories. McGrath holds a Master's Degree in English from York University and a Bachelor […]