Department of English Associate Professor Jonathan Warren was among several LA&PS faculty honoured at the 2024 York University Research Awards Celebration. The York University Research Award Celebration honours York’s scholars across all faculties and schools for their remarkable achievements and contributions to creating positive change.. Read the full story
Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2024, at 1 p.m.Type: Hybrid Event Venue: McLaughlin College, 014 Sadiqa will read from her novel, ‘alfabet/alphabet’ and will also be available for questions from the audience about her work and her residency. Sadiqa de Meijer Sadiqa de Meijer‘s books include Leaving Howe Island (Governor General’s Award Finalist 2014), The Outer Wards (Raymond Souster Award […]
Join our community of undergraduate students who are passionate about literature! The English Undergraduate Students’ Association is currently recruiting two executive members. Role descriptions are posted below. Applicants may send their inquiries or resume/cover letter to eusayork@gmail.com. New general members are welcome as well! Treasurer/Chief Financial Officer: we are looking for someone who is responsible, […]
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 […]
Date: Wednesday September 13, 2023Time: 1:30pmLocation: McLaughlin College, 014 Shyam will read from his new novel, Mansions of the Moon, and will also be available for questions from the audience about his work and his residency. Shyam Selvadurai Shyam Selvadurai is the author of Funny Boy, Cinnamon Gardens, Swimming in the Monsoon Sea, a novel for young adults, and The […]
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 […]