Professor Michael Helm, assistant professor of English in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, has published his third novel, Cities of Refuge. Helm's novel has attracted media attention through reviews and interviews. Helm's brother, Richard, interviewed him about the novel May 2 in the Edmonton Journal: It's a tricky business this, writing about […]
Michael Helm, assistant professor of English in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, has published his third novel, Cities of Refuge. His is the author of The Projectionist, which was a Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist, and In the Place of Last Things, a regional Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book. The Globe & […]
A nine-member Glendon research team, including senior scholars Jim Benson and Bill Greaves from the Department of English, is travelling to Des Moines, Iowa, for a four-day interaction with other similar research teams, from April 29 to May 2, to discuss linguistics and bonobo human discourse. The team is engaged in the multi-location, multi-year Bonobo Human Discourse […]
Surreal, absurdist, satirical, playful and yet, at times, deeply serious is how York English Professor Priscila Uppal (BA Hons. ’97, PhD ’04) describes Traumatology, her latest collection of poetry officially launching on Wednesday. A poet and novelist, Uppal will read from Traumatology during the launch on March 24 at 8pm at the Monarch Tavern, 12 […]
Rishma Dunlop, associate professor in the Department of English and the Faculty of Education, is a finalist for the 2009 CBC Literary Awards. Dunlop’s “Paris Notebook” is competing in the creative non-fiction category. Eighty English-language finalists were chosen out of 6,000 submissions in three categories – creative non-fiction, poetry and short story. The winner in each […]
Research at York is broader than books, journal articles, scientific findings or data sets. In the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, research can result in a piece of poetry that moves the soul. Like the Greek poet Pindar, York English Professor Priscila Uppal, an internationally acclaimed poet and novelist, is penning poems for […]