Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction, co-authored by Jean-Thomas Tremblay, associate professor in the Department of English, received an Honourable Mention in the 2025 Book Prize competition held by the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP). ASAP promotes the best scholarship on the literary, visual, performing and media arts, and […]
Call for Submissions: University-wide Creative Writing Competition open to all YorkU students. Apply now! The annual President’s Creative Writing Awards, the Lorna Marsden Prize for Creative Writing in French, the Daniel Whittaker-Van Dusen Prize for Emerging Poets and the Richard Teleky Short Fiction Prize are accepting unpublished and original writing submissions. The President’s Awards and […]
Agnes Whitfield, a professor in the Department of English, reconnected with surrealism in the early 2020s when she started writing surrealist poetry herself. “The term has been trivialized and so many visual artworks manipulated in advertising that we forget that surrealism originated in the revolt and despair felt by young men and women after the […]
Join Writer-in-Residence Carleigh Baker for a conversation with video essayist Jacob Geller, author of How a Game Lives, a collection of essays that weaves video games, history and literature into thoughtful cultural discourse. Jacob Geller will join via livestream. Wednesday, Nov. 26 at 1 p.m. Founders Assembly Hall, FC 152 As the Los Angeles Review of Books put it, […]
On Monday, Nov. 3, individuals and teams were recognized for their contributions to the York Community at the President’s Staff Recognition Awards. The annual awards celebrate meaningful contributions across the institution in several key areas, including community building, leadership and service excellence. The following staff members from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies were […]
Each year, the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) proudly recognizes the outstanding creativity, scholarship and social impact of our faculty members through the LA&PS Research Awards. These awards shine a spotlight on research that not only advances academic knowledge but also strengthens communities, informs public policy and creates transformative learning opportunities for […]
Robert Zacharias, associate professor in the Department of English (LA&PS), was recently featured in Anabaptist World, where he discusses the new anthology that he edited, In Search of a Mennonite Imagination: Key Texts in Mennonite Literary Criticism (Canadian Mennonite University Press). The anthology features Mennonite literary criticism that has been written over 150 years, featuring 53 […]
The Victorian Studies Network at York (VSNY) has unveiled an online exhibit displaying a selection of nineteenth-century books, correspondence and other rare materials held by the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections at York University Library. This virtual display follows a successful in-person event, which was co-hosted by the VSNY and York University Libraries on […]
Nicole Dufoe is a postdoctoral fellow for the 2025-2026 year, working under the supervision of professor Tina Choi in the Department of English. Dufoe’s current project, “Victorian Fictions of Wellness,” brings together her background in nineteenth-century literary studies and the health humanities to investigate the relationship between Victorian ideals of self-improvement, epitomized by Samuel Smiles’s […]
Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has awarded $1.7 million in federal funding to York University researchers as part of the Insight Development Grants program. The program will provide funding for projects lasting up to two years, supporting a broad range of topics and disciplines as researchers investigate key societal challenges. A number […]