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 […]
Allen Curtis Koretsky, professor emeritus in the Department of English and former head of Stong College, passed away on July 9, 2025. Koretsky earned a PhD from the University of Toronto before joining York University in the late 1960s where he taught in the Department of English for more than four decades where he contributed […]
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 […]
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 […]