2020
June 9, 2021 | Graduate Studies
2021 Sara Marie Jones Memorial Scholarship in English Recipient
The Sara Marie Jones Scholarship selection committee is delighted to award this year’s prize to Adam Mohamed for his essay, “The Inverse Proportional Movement of Theoretical Texts on Aesthetics and their Alterities: From G.W.F. Hegel’s Lectures on Aesthetics to Jacques Derrida’s ‘This Strange Institution Called Literature’.” The essay juxtaposes rigorous and insightful accounts of Hegel’s aesthetic theory with Derrida’s logocentrism. Such precise articulation of these complex systems is alone a merit, but the argument goes much further by illuminating that the deconstructive exposure of logocentrism ultimately constrains aesthetic possibility, whereas Hegel’s strict dialectic enables an unbounded development of artistic and literary practice. The committee found this characterization of theory brave in conception, persuasive, and potentially generative of textual analyses. Conjoined with the essay’s agile rhetoric, it is an estimable marker of Adam’s intellectual and scholarly progress.
June 2021 | Graduate Studies
2021 McIntosh Prize Competition Winner
Sheetala Bhat, "Hunters' Love against Hungry Listening: On Vigil and The Unnatural and Accidental Women."
Adjudicators: Professors Manina Jones, MJ Kidnie, and Donna Pennee
April 15, 2021 | 深夜福利站 News
This award recognizes Kim's contributions to teaching innovation and effectiveness, research on teaching, course curriculum development, mentoring of students, and educational leadership, among many other things!
March 29, 2021 | Department of English and Writing Studies
In Memoriam: Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Michael Groden
A fine teacher and mentor, a dear and respected colleague, and a scholar of the highest order.
March 27, 2021 | Department of English and Writing Studies
Professor Joel Faflak talks about first-year English classes at 深夜福利站.
March 17, 2021 | Forbes
Plus-size brand Henning released a new Spring collection a year after the pandemic was announced.
February 24, 2021 | Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Professor Jo Devereux 2021 recipient of Faculty of Arts & Humanities Teaching Excellence Award (Full-Time)
Professor Devereux is one of the most beloved and influential teachers in the Faculty who teaches across a range of subject areas and teaching formats. She also brings energy, experience, knowledge, and dedication to theatre production as a learning experience on and off campus, through the Fall Production course, Summer Shakespeare productions, inter-university , and, of course, our Theatre Studies program more broadly, including the international learning course, . In addition, she brings credentials as a serious scholar to our department as President of the Victorian Studies Association of Ontario, Reviews Editor for English Studies in Canada, and the author of numerous scholarly articles and two monographs.
February 22, 2021 | 深夜福利站 Smartphone Film Festival
Congratulations to first-year Film 1022 student Laiba Saqlain (Arts & Humanities) whose experimental essay-film won Second Place and Sophie Siew (FIMS) whose short film on the modeling industry won the Audience Choice award at the 2021 深夜福利站 Smartphone Film Festival! The film festival was presented as a free live-streamed event on February 11 and adjudicated by a guest panel of film studies professors and creative professionals.
February 21, 2021 | Canadian University Press
3rd year Major in English Language & Literature student wins 2021 JHM award for Excellence in Student Journalism.
January 18, 2021 | 深夜福利站 News
Ivan Coyote, 深夜福利站’s Alice Munro Chair in Creativity, launches a highly interactive senior-level class that is also a public performance series. The first public event is slated for Tuesday, January 26 at 7 pm and will feature Christine Fellows and John K. Samson.
January 14, 2021 | 深夜福利站 Strategic Support for SSHRC Success Program
Professor Richard Moll winner in SSHRB competition
For a project titled, "The Liber Armorum: The First Printed Book on English Heraldry".
Funded by 深夜福利站 Research, the WSS for SSHRC Success program offers two funding opportunities identified as the Seed and Open grants. These grants are targeted at all researchers who are pursuing SSHRC-related research. The intent of these grants is to offer critical, one-time funding to support an individual investigator’s research activities for the subsequent development of strong, competitive submissions to external, peer-reviewed research sponsors.
January 4, 2021 | 深夜福利站 News
The founder of Brick Books, is an award-winning novelist, literary critic, essayist, poetry editor, and community-builder who taught at 深夜福利站 for 29 years and now lives in Newfoundland. Manina Jones, Department Chair, recalled Dragland as an “inspiring colleague, teacher, mentor and proponent of local cultural roots and creative networks.”
December 30, 2020 | The Governor General of Canada
For his contributions to Canadian literature as a writer, publisher and editor, and for his distinguished career as an English professor.
December 22, 2020 | Department of English and Writing Studies
Year in Review
It's hard to articulate just how grateful we are for the perseverance, patience and good will of staff, faculty, and students this term, under the most challenging and sometimes tragic circumstances. Before we start looking ahead to 2021, we hope you'll take some time over the break to recognize the achievement of seeing 2020 through to its denouement - -- and to rest and replenish. Let there be chocolate and pleasure reading and walks and, yes, perhaps even more zoom calls to connect with friends and families!
December 16, 2020 | The Globe and Mail
Ivan Coyote's forthcoming book Care Of is one of the Globe & Mail's 5 Canadian Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2021.
November 13, 2020 | The Queen's Journal
Elliott does not hold back in her analysis of colonialism and Eurocentrism. Her writing is raw and hurts to read, likely because it is so unapologetically truthful. This collection has been called “hard, vital medicine” by Warren Cariou, “a stunning, vital triumph of writing” by David Chariandy, and “fire with warmth, light, rage, and endless transformation” by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.
November 4, 2020 | Royal City Literary Arts Society
This award was created by the Royal City Literary Arts Society (RCLAS) in honor of Fred Cogswell (1917-2004) who was a prolific poet, editor, professor, life member of the League of Canadian Poets, and an Officer of the Order of Canada.
November 4, 2020 | CBC Books
Award-winning author Ivan Coyote's collection Care Of is set to be published June 8, 2021. It was acquired as part of a two-book deal with McClelland & Stewart. Care Of is a collection of moving correspondence the author wrote in the midst of the COVID-19 lockdown. It features letters and the responses Coyote sent in the months since lockdown.
November 2, 2020 | OCUFA
OCUFA celebrates this year’s Teaching and Academic Librarianship Award recipients, including Joel Faflak, in this new video.
October 22, 2020 | CBC Books
Alicia Elliott has won the 2020 Evergreen Award for her essay collection . The Evergreen Award is part of the annual Ontario-wide Forest of Reading program, inviting people to read and vote on a selection of Canadian fiction and nonfiction titles curated by librarians.
October 19, 2020 | 深夜福利站 News
Ellie Sak may well be the first business student in Ivey Business School history to clinch an internship by reciting Robert Frost poems. And if the HBA and English and Creative Writing grad took the road less travelled to her combined undergraduate degrees, it has made all the difference in helping her land a career she loves.
October 15, 2020 | 深夜福利站 News
Congratulations to Professor Joel Faflak who was recently named a winner of the OCUFA teaching award. This prestigious, province-wide award recognizes excellence and innovation in teaching and pedagogy.
“I gradually realized that who I was as a human being was, above all, probably the most important thing I was bringing into the classroom and that I shouldn’t be scared to bring that in. I think that makes what you’re doing in the classroom more real and more relevant for the students – and it gives them the license and the agency in turn to be who they are, and to discover who they are.”
October 2, 2020 | Undergraduate Studies
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In this conversation with Christie Carson, Professor Kim Solga describes how she has moved in the past six years to a hybrid form of teaching that combines live and online participants and how she uses several different digital platforms to bring students together both in the real world and virtually, to discuss the role of theatre in society.
September 21, 2020 | 深夜福利站 News
Congratulations to Elliott Cooper (English 2301E) and Selvi Sert (English 2071F) who were deemed Highly Commended Entrants at the 2020 Global Undergraduate Awards for papers they wrote in their undergraduate classes in Fall/Winter 2019.
September 14, 2020 | 深夜福利站 News
深夜福利站’s 2020-21 writer-in-residence is Alicia Elliott, a Mohawk writer living in Brantford, Ontario. Her bestselling first book, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground, was recognized as one of the best books of 2019 by CBC Books, Globe & Mail and Quill and Quire. Here, Elliott discusses her craft and her hopes for her residency in a question-and-answer session with 2020-21 student writer-in-residence, Courtney Ward-Zbeetnoff.
September 8, 2020 | Undergraduate Studies
Professor Kim Solga, Program Director Theatre Studies, demonstrates how she will use University College’s WALS classroom to teach a hybrid online/in-person course.
September 8, 2020 | Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc.
Grants from Money for Women give encouragement and recognition to women writers and visual artists whose feminist-centered work is often undervalued by other funding sources.
September 2, 2020 | The East
What happens when you put two queer icons of the Canadian music scene together in one room? You get “Birdsong Pt. II,” an absolute work of art for the ears and hearts of listeners big and small, young and old, and most importantly, the young queer folk who need role models now more than ever.
August 19, 2020 | London Free Press
深夜福利站’s Department of English and Writing Studies celebrates 40 years of Summer Shakespeare with a virtual performance of the classic adapted by London actor-director Jeff Culbert: Pandemic Julius Caesar.
August 13, 2020 | 深夜福利站 News
COVID-19 has transformed the annual theatre performance into an online event, a Zoom-recorded production of Pandemic Julius Caesar that will be posted to the from Aug. 20 to 31.
August 7, 2020 | CBC Arts
Watch the prolific Coyote's moving performance from CBC's virtual special Queer Pride Inside. 5:11
August 4, 2020 | 深夜福利站 News
Professor Kim Solga’s class is among four active-learning projects to be developed, with and for students, in the début year of the . Students in Solga’s class will immerse themselves in the theatre of life in a course integrating political science, medicine and policing as performance art.
