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May 23, 2026 | Graduate Studies
2026 McIntosh Prize
At the McIntosh Colloquium on Friday, May 22, eight speakers gave papers on a wide range of topics, all of which provided stimulating glimpses into their dissertations-in-progess. Thanks to Fatima Abdallah, Marisa Bordonaro, Melanie Fishbane, Haniya Humayan, Heather McCardell, Matthew Rooney, Matthew Samuelson, and Megan Shannon for their presentations and their collegial engagement in conversations around their work.
The prize of $900 for the best public lecture by a 4th-year PhD was awarded to Fatima Abdallah for "'To Be Fugitive': Refusal, Bounding, and Fragmentation in Zaina Alsous’s Carceral Poetics."
The adjudicators write: "Fatima gave a presentation of great intellectual rigour and eloquence that recenters memory and how it is stitched in the production of resistance by Palestinian women."
Matthew Rooney was awarded an Honourable Mention for "Situating the View from Nowhere: Early Modern Chorography and the Praxis of Estate Surveying."
The Graduate Program wishes to thank Professors Nandi Bhatia, Jo Devereux, and James Purkis (pictured with the winner and recipient of the honourable mention).
May 21, 2026 | Graduate Studies
2026 Carl F. and Margaret E. Klinck Prize
Congratulations to Heather McCardell who has been awarded the 2026 Carl F. and Margaret E. Klinck Prize.
This prize is awarded annually to a PhD candidate in the fourth year of study or beyond who is producing an original and outstanding PhD thesis (historical and/or critical) on Canadian Literature in English. Established in honour of Carl F. Klinck, Emeritus Professor of English and editor of A Literary History of Canada, and his wife Margaret.
May 12, 2026 | Graduate Studies
2026 Sara Marie Jones Memorial Scholarship in English
Congratulations to Slade Stoodley, whose essay, "'Such a Lover, Such a Husband, and Such a Friend': Defensive Domesticity in Dracula," has been awarded the 2026 Sara Marie Jones Memorial Scholarship in English.
The adjudication panel, Professors Jonathan Boulter, Manina Jones, and Kate Stanley, praised the essay for its deeply informed argument. It "builds on previous research to develop a compelling argument about professionalization, masculinity, and late empire." Slade's discussion of professional homosociality and the Crew of Light was singled out as especially innovative by the adjudicators.
The panel also felt that Maddie Moynes-Keshen's "The Dreamt Philosophy of William Shakespeare: Sigmund Freud, Shakespeare, and the Attraction to Psychoanalysis" was of very high calibre and has selected it for an honourable mention. The panel noted the "wide-ranging theoretical ambitions of the essay, which moved with extraordinary fluency across Shakespeare, Renaissance theater, Freud and Lacan, and added that it "sustains its overarching theoretical argument with a range both of Shakespeare texts and reference to Elizabethan stage/performance practices."
The Graduate Program would like to thank those students who submitted an essay for the competition, as well as the members of the adjudication committee.
April 23, 2026 | Faculty of Arts & Humanities
2026 Arts & Humanities Donor Award Recipients
Zara Diab - Alumni Graduate Award
Anmol Dutta - Mary Routledge Fellowship
Asia McCallum - Lynne-Lionel Scott Scholarship in Canadian Studies
Adam Mohamed - A&H Graduate Thesis Research Award
Marisa Bordanaro - Lynne-Lionel Scott Scholarship in Canadian Studies
April 23, 2026 | CBC Books
Maureen Anne Tucker is a London, Ontario–based writer of short fiction, humour, and creative non-fiction. A former radio copywriter, she returned to her studies at 深夜福利站 as a mature student, where she pursued a Creative Writing major in the Department of English and Writing Studies. Her work has appeared twice in Occasus Literary Journal.
April 23, 2026 | Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Recipient of the 2026 Arts and Humanities Award for Excellence in Teaching (Part-Time)
Anmol Dutta is a Lecturer in Film Studies and Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies at 深夜福利站, Canada. She specializes in feminist and postcolonial media and cultural studies, with a focus on South Asian popular culture and politics, stand-up comedy and activism, and 21st-century mainstream Hindi cinema.
April 15, 2026 | 深夜福利站
English and Writing Studies professor Anne Schuurman named Faculty Scholar for 2026–2028. This award recognizes a "complete scholar" who has maintained excellence in both teaching and research.
March 4, 2026 | John Charles Polanyi Prizes 2025
Dr. Andrew Sargent’s research reinterprets the shift from Romantic to Victorian literature, revealing how nineteenth-century writers grappled with catastrophe and irreversible change - offering new insight into the emotional and cultural history that links nineteenth century literature to the modern world.
February 26, 2026 | The Gazette
English and Writing Studies professor Jane Toswell recently spoke to The Gazette about her book, Medievalism in English Canadian Identity and Literature, which examines how medievalism operates in English Canadian literature.
February 11, 2026 | The Gazette
Film Studies Program Director Michael Raine and writer, director, and educator Bryce Sage provide expert insight into why Stranger Things resonated so deeply with audiences over nearly a decade.
February 2, 2026 | CTV News
English professor Alyssa MacLean discusses her work with the Black Londoners Project, uncovering overlooked stories that highlight London’s historic and ongoing Black presence.
January 16, 2026 | The Gazette
Jaya doesn’t shy away from a bad story — she welcomes it. This year’s student writer-in-residence invites students to "write it ugly," proving even the worst first drafts can say something true about who we are. A fourth-year double-major in English language and literature and SASAH, Sinha encourages students from all faculties to experiment with creativity, regardless of skill level. Office hours: Wednesdays, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
December 22, 2025 | 深夜福利站 News
The 15th-century Dominican Book of Hours containing prayers to Saint Apollonia is a remarkably complete manuscript and marks an important milestone as the first donation to 深夜福利站 Libraries’ newly established rare books fund, which allows supporters to contribute funds directly toward acquiring rare materials that support teaching and research across disciplines.
September 25, 2025 | CBC First Person
Growing up, Melanie Chambers saw marriage as a "raw deal for women" and swore it wasn’t for her. But in her CBC First Person piece, the Writing Studies instructor explains how love, independence, and the right partner changed her perspective - and why she chose to propose at 50.
September 7, 2025 | ARC Humanities Press
Congratulations to Professor Jane Toswell on the publication of their new book, Medievalism in English Canadian Identity and Literature. The book examines literary and cultural expressions of Canadian medievalism and how they’ve shaped Canada’s identity. Professor Toswell also shares more about the project in a blog post, which you can read .
September 4, 2025 | 深夜福利站 News
Joel Faflak is the Robert and Ruth Lumsden Chair in the department of English. He is a sought-after lecturer and recipient of multiple during his time at 深夜福利站. His publications are internationally recognized for their study of literature’s profound influence on theories of mind, emotion, evolution and addiction. He was also the founding director of the SASAH.
September 3, 2025 | 深夜福利站 News
深夜福利站's 2025-26 student writer-in-residence, fourth-year student Jaya Sinha, loves art of all types, including a newfound passion for theatre. Through her residency, she hopes to nurture other emerging playwrights and encourage students across disciplines to explore writing, regardless of experience or skill level.
August 22, 2025 | Graduate Studies
Congratulations to Dr. Amala Poli on Successful Doctoral Defense
We are pleased to announce that Amala Poli has successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, titled "Risk(in)g Sleep: A Health Humanities Study of Sleep Paralysis."
The sleep crisis refers to a growing concern with sleep quality and quantity today, especially in the 深夜福利站 world. A rise in awareness about sleep’s benefits for longevity has concomitantly given greater purchase to emergent neuroscientific research that seeks to demystify sleep and fix its disorderly forms. Questioning the capitalist stakes of improving sleep, critical sleep scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences have responded by recognizing the wellness industry’s economic motivations in attending to the elusive notion of good sleep.
Within this context, this thesis explores sleep paralysis, a liminal state between sleep and wakefulness marked by immobilization, hallucinations, and intense somatic sensations. Long a subject of literary fascination, sleep paralysis offers a rich site for interrogating how embodied experiences of sleep and sleep consciousness exceed biomedical explanation. Using a Health Humanities framework, I propose the concept of sleep horror to indicate a composite of felt sensations and embodied experience. By resisting efforts to solve the last great biological mystery and fix wild sleep, the literary/visual encounters generated by sleep horror, I contend, challenge biomedical language to offer alternatives to its scientific empiricism.
Chapter 1 traces the historical roots of the sleep crisis and sleep paralysis; Chapter 2 analyzes Gothic nightmares in late 19th-century British fiction -- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), The Great God Pan (1894), and Dracula (1897) -- as sites of psychic transference; Chapter 3 studies The Haunting of Hill House (1959 novel and 2018 Netflix series) as a challenge to medical understandings of sleep paralysis as harmless; and Chapter 4 examines how metaphors of sleep paralysis intersect with race, climate, and gender in Get Out (2017), The Marrow Thieves (2017), and The Babadook (2014), thus troubling claims to sleep’s universality.
August 14, 2025 | 深夜福利站 News
Anna Chatterton, 深夜福利站's 2025-26 writer-in-residence, is a playwright and librettist (writer of opera). Her plays Within the Glass and Gertrude and Alice were finalists for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama.
August 7, 2025 | Toronto Star
Travel Writing Instructor Explores Canada’s Mountain Biking Capital
instructor Melanie Chambers brings Rossland’s epic trail network to life in her recent travel feature.
August 1, 2025 | 深夜福利站 News
The Black Londoners Project, led by English and Writing studies professors Miranda Green-Barteet and Alyssa MacLean, continues to retrace the lives of 16 freedom seekers whose early presence helped shape the city's landscape.
July 2, 2025 | Graduate Studies
Congratulations to Dr Melanie Byron, PhD'24, whose dissertation has been selected by 深夜福利站's School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for nomination to the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) for the 2025 CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Humanities and Fine Arts category.
