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Our Writing Department faculty members are among the leading voices in the field. Through journal contributions, case studies, essays, edited works and poems, their impactful research embodies the interdisciplinary spirit of academics within LA&PS, and across York University. Browse below for examples of their work.

THE SUICIDE MAGNET book cover

Paul McLaughlin
2023

The inside story of the grassroots fight to have a suicide barrier erected on Toronto’s “bridge of death.” Most Torontonians …

asking the best questions book cover

Paul McLaughlin
2022

Asking the Best Questions offers insights for every step of the process: researching and securing an interview, building trust and rapport, …

Rhetoric Review journal cover

Brandee Easter
2020

One way toward a more embodied digital rhetoric is through interrogating constructions of digital disembodiment. To make that case, this …

Searching for Story: Reading in Science. Critical Reading across the Curriculum, Volume 2: Social and Natural Sciences book cover

Andrea McKenzie
2020

“Strong critical reading skills are an essential part of any student’s academic success. Teaching these vital skills requires educators to …

American Journal of Semiotics August 2019 cover

Richard Rosenbaum
2019

From Propp’s functions to Levi-Strauss’s mythemes, from Greimas’s actants to Barthes’s narrative units, and beyond, numerous scholars of linguistics, comparative …

Journal of War & Culture Studies cover

Andrea McKenzie
2018

Previous studies of First World War photography focus on soldiers’ experiences and professional photographers’ work, with little attention paid to …

Feminist Media Studies, special issue on Online Misogyny cover

Brandee Easter
2018

C+= (pronounced “C plus equality” or “see equality”) is an anti-feminist programming language hoax that provides one example of the …

Pretend to Feel book cover

Richard Rosenbaum
2017

A naïve and unbalanced teenage girl with claims of extraterrestrial origins only wants two things in the whole world—family and …

Raise Some Shell book cover

Richard Rosenbaum
2017

Celebrating the persistence of Turtle Power Raise Some Shell critically and cleverly examines the origins, evolution, and impact of the …

Things Don't Break book cover

Richard Rosenbaum
2017

Acclaimed writer Richard Rosenbaum’s short stories range in genre from realism to speculative, and stylistically from literary to experimental. In …

L.M. Montgomery and War book cover

Andrea McKenzie
2017

Drawing on new perspectives from war studies, literary studies, historical studies, gender studies, and visual art, L.M. Montgomery and War …

Children’s Literature and Culture of the First World War book cover

Andrea McKenzie
2016

How did girls write about the First World War? St. Nicholas Magazine, a “magazine for young folks,” held contests for …

War-Torn Exchanges: The Lives and Letters of Nursing Sisters Laura Holland and Mildred Forbes book cover

Andrea McKenzie
2016

“War-Torn Exchanges” offers unprecedented insight into the daily lives of Canada’s First World War nurses–from the privations of Gallipoli to …

Revenge of the Grand Narrative book cover

Richard Rosenbaum
2014

In Revenge of the Grand Narrative, the oldest man in the world, an activist with a suspiciously persuasive singing voice, …