Professors Michael Helm & Priscila Uppal to share International Festival of Authors stage with York alumni

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 […]

Poetry Professor makes CBC Literary Awards' short list

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 […]