2022

June 28, 2023 | Graduate Studies

The prize recognizes the best debut books by Canadians in fiction, nonfiction and speculative fiction.


June 26, 2023 | Undergraduate Studies

Writing studies professor and novelist Aaron Schneider, joined CBC London Morning to discuss his new book “The Supply Chain,” which is set in the Forest City.


June 17, 2023 | Graduate Studies

Congratulations, Dr Robinet (PhD'21), on being named an Excellence in Teaching Award recipient from Brescia University College for 2023!


June 17, 2023 | Department of English and Writing Studies

Ninian joined our department in 1970, specializing in Irish literature and Shakespeare. A much-admired teacher and scholar, Ninian also shared his passion for literature with those outside the academic world through the globetrotting literary tours he led for many years. Wherever he went, Ninian was an ebullient and vital spirit. He will be remembered for his boundless good will, kindness, and generousity.


April 25, 2023 | London Free Press

深夜福利站 students and faculty members and staff from the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority add live sandbar willow stakes and native wetland shrubs to the banks of Medway Creek behind Westminster College on 深夜福利站's campus.


April 20, 2023 | 深夜福利站 News

Prof. Nigel Joseph, a long-time lecturer in 深夜福利站’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities as well as at King’s University College, "represents everything that is best about an education in the arts and humanities," one nominator writes. His "breadth of knowledge, keen insight, compassion and profound commitment to justice and equity" see him routinely described by his students as "phenomenal".


March 27, 2023 | 深夜福利站 News

A scholar of cultural studies and postcolonial literature and member of our department from 2004-2010, Lily Cho has been appointed as 深夜福利站's incoming Vice-Provost & Associate Vice-President (International) effective July 1. Welcome back, Lily!


February 2, 2023 | 深夜福利站 News

English Major inspired to submit song after taking  Alice Munro Chair in Creativity course.


February 1, 2023 | 深夜福利站 News

Interactive website to document histories of individuals who fled slavery in the U.S. and settled in the Forest City.


January 23, 2023 | 深夜福利站 News

The reception will include readings from 深夜福利站’s writers-in-residence, January Rogers and Matthew Dawkins, as well as former library staff and poet, John Tyndall.


January 12, 2023 | 深夜福利站 News

Leaf from first edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, published on Caxton's printing press in 1476 offers students a 'hands-on' experience.


January 4, 2023 | 深夜福利站 News

Professor Cull served as London’s poet laureate from 2016 to 2018. Cull has been honoured for his work with the environment. Since 2012, he has been the director of Antler River Rally, a grassroots environmental group he co-founded with his partner and their son.


December 19, 2022 | Journalisten

Manley addresses the stigmas in fashion writing in her new textbook "Fashion Writing: A Primer" which will be published by Routledge this winter.


December 13, 2022 | Undergraduate Studies

Congratulations to 深夜福利站 student Sarah Alexia Arksey-Njegovan, one of fifty undergraduate and graduate students selected to participate in the Telluride Student Symposium at the 49th Annual Telluride Film Festival in the Colorado Rockies (Telluride, Colorado, Sept. 2-5 2022). The Telluride Student Symposium is a selective program open to 50 currently-enrolled undergraduate and graduate students from around the globe. Although there is an official application, the primary requirement for all applicants is a love of film. All participants in the Symposium receive a Student Festival pass and a modest travel stipend. The Telluride Film Festival’s Student Symposium looks for a diverse cross-section of the college and university students - undergraduate and graduate students; film and non-film majors; and geographical and cultural diversity. Students selected view approximately a dozen film programs over four days and attend exclusive symposia with filmmakers, producers, actors, and writers. Sarah is pursuing a Major in Psychology and a Minor in Creative Writing at 深夜福利站. She has taken courses in Screenwriting, Film History and Film Appreciation at 深夜福利站, Vancouver Acting School and Athabasca. In 2020 Sarah published an essay she wrote in Film 3335F Contemporary German Cinema in KINO: 深夜福利站 Undergraduate Research Journal.


November 25, 2022 | Department of English and Writing Studies
Shelley Clark, Administrative Assistant resigns as Chief Usher after 201 深夜福利站 Convocation ceremonies
Shelley started ushering in 1990 during her time at the Faculty of Education. She continued the role when she moved to Arts & Humanities and became Chief Usher in July 2010. "It has been a role I enjoyed doing over the years," Shelley states, "and I made many friends with fellow volunteer ushers. We all worked together to make each ceremony special for our graduates and guests who attended." Thank you for your service, Shelley!


November 24, 2022 | 深夜福利站 News

Canada’s oldest literary residency has played host to 53 writers of different backgrounds, styles and genres, including poets, culinary writers, playwrights, and essayists, from famed literary minds like Alice Munro to vital and new voices like Alicia Elliot and Zalika Reid-Benta.


November 11, 2022 | 深夜福利站 News

Jody Becker, BA'96, Chief strategy officer, executive vice-president, infrastructure services and technology at EllisDon Group, is one of 12 深夜福利站 alumni to receive a 2022 Canada's Most Powerful Women award.


October 6, 2022 | 深夜福利站 News

Tanja Grubnic, PhD Candidate, is spending nine months at Duke University in North Carolina on a research placement funded by a Fulbright student award.


September 28, 2022 | 深夜福利站 News

William (Bill) Hodgins, BA'54, bequeathed $10 million to 深夜福利站 to support scholarships in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. His donation will fund more than 16 scholarships each year, in perpetuity.


September 26, 2022 | 深夜福利站 News

McKeen will retrace the steps she walked as a student, as well as those she imagined for the protagonist as she reads from her debut novel Tear. Presented by Writing 2520A: Write Now! – Writers on Writing, everyone is invited on Wednesday, Sept. 28, and every week following, as different writers read from their work and talk about their craft.


August 29, 2022 | London Free Press

Even before he could read in his homeland of Jamaica, author and poet Matthew Dawkins remembers immersing himself in stories, demanding they be read to him over and over again.


August 22, 2022 | 深夜福利站 News

An author and poet, Matthew Dawkins' debut novel is set for release this fall.


August 5, 2022 | Department of English and Writing Studies
In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Stan Dragland
We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Professor Emeritus Stan Dragland, who taught for 29 years in the Department of English at 深夜福利站. An icon in Canadian Literature, Professor Dragland was long admired as a dedicated educator, a literary critic, editor, poet, novelist, and community-builder.


July 26, 2022 | 深夜福利站 News

January Roger’s expertise from print poetry to performance poetry, to radio, theatre and new media is reflective of English and Writing Studies’ evolving identity as a home to multiple programs in literature, theatre, performance, and film. Moreover, January's connection to her home community of Six Nations of the Grand River is key to our vision of nurturing our relationships with local Indigenous nations and learning from brilliant Indigenous artists across this region.


July 13, 2022 | Graduate Studies
2021-22 Sara Marie Jones Memorial Scholarship in English
The Sara Marie Jones Scholarship selection committee is delighted to award this year’s prize to Andrew Pudlak for his essay, "'Spirals of Power and Pleasure': Modes of Resistance in The History of Sexuality." The essay is a thoughtful and nuanced exploration of Foucault’s understanding of power and the strategies he proposes for resisting it that productively places his work in conversation with Butler and Derrida. The committee was impressed by the clarity with which the essay unpacked the core concepts of The History of Sexuality while situating it in relation to both Foucault’s earlier work and his commentators, and by the maturity and precision of the prose.

The Graduate Studies Office would like to thank those students who submitted an essay for the competition, as well as the members of the adjudication committee, Drs Aaron Schneider, Mary Helen McMurran, and Alison Lee, for their enthusiasm and dedication to our students, and for their work on this competition.