Haints: American Ghosts, Millennial Passions, and Contemporary Gothic Fictions, a new book by the chair of York’s Department of English, Art Redding, will launch next Wednesday. Published by the University of Alabama Press, Haints (see YFile, Sept. 14) examines the work of contemporary American authors who draw on the gothic tradition in their fiction, not […]
Over 150 years after it was first published, Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel Jane Eyre remains a favourite for film and television adaptations. But what influences and interpretations are at work before it hits the screen? York women's studies PhD candidate Kathleen Cummins (BA Spec. Hons. ’92, MFA ’95) will talk on Thursday about “The Perils […]
The 31st International Festival of Authors (IFOA) has started and several York professors and alumni are on the bill. York alumnus Jian Ghomeshi (right) (BA ’95) of CBC Radio will host and moderate “Celebrating 40 Years of the Juno Awards”, which will launch the new book Music from Far and Wide: Celebrating 40 Years of […]
Ten academics, including James Benson and William Greaves, professors emeriti at Glendon College, and Stuart Shanker, distinguished research professor in philosophy & psychology in York’s Faculty of Health and director of the Milton and Ethel Harris Research Initiative, wrote a letter to The New York Times' Sunday Book Review section Oct. 17 in which they respond […]
York English Professor Michael Helm likens writing novels to driving bumper to bumper at 120 kilometres an hour for half a day, and being emotionally and physically spent by the end. That’s on good days. “You have to concentrate so hard, but when you get out of the car, you’re just so exhausted. I always […]
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 & […]