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 […]
At York, in addition to her focus on literary theory, discourse analysis, and modernism/postmodernism, she contributed to the graduate programs in English, Humanities, and Social and Political Thought. From 2011-14, and again in 2015-16, she served as the director of the Graduate Program in English and worked vigorously on behalf of the Faculty of Graduate […]
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 […]
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 […]
Matteo L. Cerilli, a York undergraduate student pursuing a BA honours with a double major in creative writing and professional writing from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, recently sold his debut novel Lockjaw. The novel is a multiple-perspective young adult horror novel corresponding to Stephen King’s IT and the hit television show […]
The online ceremony held on May 24 honoured the 2021-2022 winning submissions. The event was organized by David Goldstein, creative writing program coordinator and associate professor of English, with support from staff members Kimberly Wilson, Rose Crawford and Marijana Gmitrovic. “The awards ceremony is one of the highlights of our year in creative writing. Having the opportunity to honour students from […]
Dr. Marilou McKenna earned her BA from University of Guelph and completed her PhD in Victorian Literature at York University. As a CUPE faculty member from the 1980s, she had experience teaching in a wide range of areas, including American and British Literature, gothic literature, and poetry. She was an active member of the William […]
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 […]
Prof. Bruce Powe won the Media Ecology Association's annual Marshall McLuhan Book Award for The Charge in the Global Membrane. Read more about Prof. Powe's accomplishment on the McLuhan Gallery's website.
Recent discoveries that the bodies of Indigenous children lie in unmarked graves throughout Canada -- 215 graves at the Kamloops Indian Residential School on the lands of the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation, 751 at the Marieval Indian Residential School on the lands of the Cowessess First Nation, and 182 at the St. Eugene’s Mission […]