Canisia Lubrin, a graduate from York’s Creative Writing program, was awarded the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction on May 1 for her debut work of fiction CODE NOIR. The prize, which includes $150,000 USD in addition to support through mentorship, scholarship and residency opportunities, aims to address gender inequality in the literary world by […]
During the recent Creative Writing Awards, hosted by the Department of English, students were recognized for their outstanding work in a range creative writing forms, including poetry, short fiction, screenplay and stageplay. The award ceremony celebrated award-winning students from the past two years, with a total of 28 awards presented at the event. Read the […]
York Professor Emeritus Hédi Bouraoui has donated a total of $4 million to create the Elizabeth (Betty) Sabiston Graduate Scholarship in the Study of Women, the Hédi Bouraoui Graduate Fellowship in Liberal Arts, and the Hédi Bouraoui Research Fund, which will be housed within York’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS). The scholarships were established […]
Department of English professor Julia Creet discusses how the company 23andMe recently filed for bankruptcy and what this means for its customers’ privacy in a recent article published in The Conversation. Creet, who has studied the family history industry for 20 years, says that 23andMe aimed to circumvent the health care industry to provide consumers […]
Yaniya Lee is the author of Selected Writing on Black Canadian Art (2024, figure ground/Art Metropole) and Buseje Bailey: Reasons Why We Have to Disappear Every Once in a While, A Black Art History Project (2024, Artexte). Join Tiana Reid’s class, “Hauntings: Late 20th Century Black Poetics in the United States and Canada,” for a […]
Cody Caetano is a writer and literary agent at CookeMcDermid. He is an off-reserve member of Pinaymootang First Nation. His memoir, Half-Bads in White Regalia, won the 2023 Indigenous Voices Award for Best Published Prose. Excerpts from the book earned the 2020 Indigenous Voices Award for Best Unpublished Prose. He lives in Toronto. Join Cody […]
The Department of English held its annual English Awards Reception on Feb. 3, honouring 14 students for their exemplary essay writing and academic achievement. This year's recipients represent the 21st cohort since the awards began, which aim to recognize academic excellence and inspire future students through a maintained online catalogue of award-winning essays. Read the […]
By Christopher Douris | January 10, 2025 When Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang was sworn in as Ghana’s first female vice-president on Jan. 7, it marked the latest barrier shattered by the York University alumna. Her inauguration is another milestone in her journey from distinguished academic to national leader. Long before entering the political arena, she achieved […]
By Dana Patrascu-Kingsley, Gail Vanstone | December 20, 2024 Organizers of York University’s acclaimed Canadian Writers in Person Lecture Series – humanities Professor Gail Vanstone and Department of English contract faculty member Dana Patrascu-Kingsley – offer their 2024 list of best books to read over the holiday break and beyond. Vanstone and Patrascu-Kingsley organize the annual series that brings new and established […]
Edited by Ashley Goodfellow Craig York University student Matteo Cerilli knew immediately what he wanted to do when he saw the list of DARE (Dean's Award for Research Excellence) research projects. Drawn to a project led by Assistant Professor Tom Hooper, in the Department of Equity Studies, investigating protests that followed the 1981 Toronto bathhouse […]