Nominees announced for the 2023 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards

Jonathan Warren and Alison Halsall's The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader: Critical Openings, Future Directions is named a finalist for the 2023 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards in the Best Academic/Scholarly Work category. The awards, named after the acclaimed comics creator Will Eisner, honour the best publications and creators in comics and graphic novels. Winners will […]

Professor Patricia Keeney celebrates bilingual volume of poetry

Patricia Keeney, a long-time professor of creative writing at York University, has had her fourth bilingual volume of poetry published in France. The author of 10 books of poetry in English, this is Keeney’s eighth volume in another language. Keeney has also taught English and humanities at York for some 40 years. Selected and translated by […]

Passings: Professor Elizabeth Sabiston

Elizabeth “Betty” Sabiston – professor emerita in the Department of English in York’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, former acting master of Stong College and an accomplished author – passed away at 85 on April 29. Sabiston’s career at York began in 1973. Having started as a contract faculty member, she was eventually promoted […]

Why Read Literature?

In 2023, our days are spent staring at screens. A laptop is a necessity for most university students. Assignments, lecture slides, and announcements are all posted on online classroom portals. Outside of academia, a day at work likely entails a day at the computer.  Read full article on Excalibur

Professor B.W. Powe publishes book of poetry, essays, rock opera lyrics

This month poet, essayist, novelist and Department of English and Humanities Associate Professor B.W. Powe released his latest book, Ladders Made of Water. Powe’s new work is a collection featuring poems, mini-essays, stories, parables, meditations on contemporary cinema and unfinished rock opera lyrics. Blending essaying and poetry, Powe says Ladders Made of Water was writing in an impressionistic, […]

Department of English presents annual prizes and awards

On February 6, the Department of English honoured award recipients at the annual English Achievements & Awards Reception. The program offers a number of awards each year, including prizes and scholarships that recognize the achievements of majors and minors in English and Creative Writing. Several awards were established to honour former faculty members; one honours […]

English PhD student Tita Kyrtsakas publishes debut novel

A fourth-year PhD candidate studying English Literature in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) has published her debut novel he called me kid on Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing. Tita Kyrtsakas wrote the novel when she was 23. The story revolves around Clementine, an aspiring writer in her final year of high school […]

New book explores global scope of LGBTQ+ comics criticism

York University Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) Professors Alison Halsall (Department of Humanities) and Jonathan Warren (Department of English) have published The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader, the first book of its kind, with the University Press of Mississippi. The Reader honours work that emerged from and was influenced by the underground and alternative comix movements of the mid-1960s to become what […]

New book by Professor Marcus Boon explores music as vibration

Published by Duke University Press, the book explores music as a material practice of vibration that emerges from a politics of vibration and which constructs a vibrational space of individual and collective transformation. Focusing on the work of three contemporary musicians – Hindustani classical vocalist Pandit Pran Nath, Swedish drone composer and philosopher Catherine Christer […]

English Undergraduate Students' Association: Join Us Today!

A video message from EUSA’s President Tom Worthington. Dear students, The current president of the English Undergraduate Students’ Association (EUSA), Tom Worthington, will be graduating this summer and is planning to step down at the end of January. If you are in your second or third year of study, this is an excellent opportunity to […]