The Department of English is thrilled to announce that Dr. Andrew Connolly, a graduate of our PhD program and currently an Assistant Professor at Mount Royal University, will be giving a lecture at 杏吧原创 entitled “Don鈥檛 Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Academics: Reconsidering the Ethics of Training Apprentice Scholars.鈥澛燭he event will take place Friday, March 27th from 3-4:30 pm in DT 1811. All are welcome.聽

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When I chose English as my major, the question I was asked was: 鈥淲hat are you going to do with that degree?鈥� Before I went into the program, my answer was straightforward: 鈥淎n editor.鈥� Now, after two and a half Co-op experiences, my answer has been to reframe the question itself. Rather than: 鈥淲hat are you going to do with that degree?鈥� (because, really, to list off the various jobs seems a bit tedious), I would instead prefer to respond to the question of: 鈥淲hat skills and experiences are you gaining through an English degree?鈥� I am learning communications, interpersonal relations, analysis, and, while I could go on, I will end with, critical thinking.

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(PhD 2015) has recently taken up a tenure-track position in the Department of English at Mount Royal University in Calgary. Dr. Connolly鈥檚 research and teaching are in the field of American Literature, and he has particular interests in popular print culture, religion, and spirituality.

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Dr. Hisham Al Khatib (PhD 2022), a Professor (Organizational Behaviour and Strategic Frameworks) at George Brown College in Toronto, has recently been appointed as a . To this role, Dr. Al Khatib will bring his interests in organizational behaviour, strategic leadership, and inclusive practices in higher education.

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In the fall of 2025, Dr. Kratz took up in the Department of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

She鈥檚 teaching courses on the environmental humanities as well as U.S. literary cultures and is working on a research project on the cultural history of the ecosystem concept in the contexts of Cold War radioecology and contemporary debates concerning nuclear energy. 

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Congratulations to Sean Minogue (BA English, 2004) on the publication of his first novel, Terminal Solstice (Turnstone Press, 2025). In August, his play, Prodigals, will be published by Latitude 46. This play also premiered as a feature film in 2017. His stories, poetry, and essays have appeared in a handful of outlets. He works as a a copywriter at TVO teaches at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies.

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鈥淐reativity has always found me, whether it was through painting, mix media art, drawing, sewing, wood working, floral arranging, journaling, crafting, but it wasn鈥檛 until a trip to Ireland and the UK in September of 2018 I found storytelling. It was my second night staying in a cozy, old brick Airbnb on a cobblestone street in Edinburgh Scotland, when I had a vivid dream where from the antique store across the street, a mysterious object was reflecting the electric blue light from the full moon in the shape of a door on the side of my wardrobe. Of course, I awoke before seeing what was on the other side of this mystical door, but I did awake with this powerful impression that I needed to write this story. In January 2019 I found the Ottawa Writer鈥檚 Workshops where I devoured every morsel of novel writing knowledge and within a year, I had written my first 70,000-word manuscript. No publisher would touch it because the writing wasn鈥檛 strong enough, so I wrote another novel, and another one. The Unsung Song of a Wren is the sixth novel I have written and my first novel to be greenlit by a publisher.鈥�

Erin has found her niche in writing mystery and literary fiction with a paranormal twist. She is currently writing the second Wren Roussel mystery and editing her manuscript titled, Welcome to Marigold Horizons (literary fiction), which is about five souls that find themselves trapped in the funeral home where their cremated remains have been abandoned.

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Doctoral candidate Sarah Dorward has just published 鈥淓mbracing 鈥楨lsewhereness鈥�: May Agnes Fleming and Late Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Authorship鈥� in the . Arguing that authorship in Canada during the nineteenth century was fundamentally transatlantic, Sarah shows that authors who resided in British North America, and later Canada, needed to navigate the system of trans-border publishing if they wished to see much in the way of financial compensation or wide readerships. While the material and legal conditions of trans-border publishing were a hindrance to many authors residing in Canada, some were able to negotiate these conditions to their advantage.

Focusing on the career of May Agnes Fleming, a New Brunswick-born writer whose literary career was made possible through her pursuit of trans-border 鈥攁nd eventually transatlantic 鈥攑ublishing, Sarah explores how Fleming鈥檚 accrual of mass-market, transatlantic readers and subsequent significant financial success was enabled by this period鈥檚 international copyright agreements.

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By Emily Putnam. 

, a Canadian Studies and English graduate, has published his first novel, , a story of queer life in centennial-era Canada.

He says the seeds for the story were first planted in history class.

鈥淧rof. Gibson showed us a documentary on Expo, which jogged my memory of that strange, fever dream of a historical event. I tried to write an essay about it, but it wasn鈥檛 working. Then I realized I did not want to write an essay about Expo. I wanted to write a novel!鈥�

鈥淏ut I didn鈥檛 have time for that, so I put the idea away. A decade later, I remembered.鈥�

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Congratulations to Dr. John Coleman for the publication of his new article, which has recently been published in Modern Fiction Studies. Coleman argues that Kunzru鈥檚 novel Transmission allegorizes the experiences of Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) authors, implicitly querying Penguin鈥檚 self-branding as an antidote to racialized disparities in literary production. Transmission self-reflexively critiques the influence of publishing agents helping author postcolonial and similarly constructed niche genres of literature. Through this critique, the novel figures the distance a work鈥檚 nominal author has from controlling reception over their oeuvre and persona. Transmission is also canny about casting Penguin鈥檚 diversity initiatives as injecting sought-after authorial brands into the market, something Coleman‘s article also works to critique. As an open-access essay, Coleman鈥檚 essay is ready to read and enjoy.

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