News Archives - Department of English Language and Literature /english/category/news/ Ӱԭ University Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:21:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Professor Jodie Medd and students featured in recent FASS News Story /fass/2026/ban-this-book-course-equips-students-to-fight-back-against-censorship/#new_tab Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:07:52 +0000 /english/?p=28115 While we live in an age of information with fast facts and explainer videos just a tap away, certain histories and stories are becoming harder and harder to find. This seemingly contradictory phenomenon is explored in “Ban this Book: Censorship, Sexuality, and Questions of Harm,” a unique graduate course offered at Ӱԭ University that encourages […]

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Professor Jodie Medd and students featured in recent FASS News Story

April 7, 2026

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While we live in an age of information with fast facts and explainer videos just a tap away, certain histories and stories are becoming harder and harder to find.

This seemingly contradictory phenomenon is explored in “Ban this Book: Censorship, Sexuality, and Questions of Harm,” a unique graduate course offered at Ӱԭ University that encourages students to take direct, local action against censorship.

Throughout the course, students learn about the different laws, policies, trials, and practices used to target books, bookstores, libraries, and schools for representations of marginalized sexual and gender identities – and, more recently, racialized identities and information about racist and imperial histories.

Taught by English professor Jodie Medd, the goal of the course is to educate about this history of censorship and connect that history to the challenges we face today, such as  to remove certain books from their libraries.

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]]> Professor Barbara Leckie has won a Ӱԭ University Research Achievement Award https://research.carleton.ca/our-impact/award-winning-researchers/research-achievement-awards/#new_tab Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:12:46 +0000 /english/?p=28106 The post appeared first on Department of English Language and Literature.

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Professor Barbara Leckie has won a Ӱԭ University Research Achievement Award

April 7, 2026

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Professor Jodie Medd has won a FASS Teaching Award

April 7, 2026

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]]> English alum Sarah Waisvisz shortlisted for Lambda Literary Award https://talonbooks.com/news/heartlines-a-love-story-shortlisted-for-lambda-literary-award#new_tab Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:47:37 +0000 /english/?p=28085 The shortlists for the 38th annual Lambda Literary Awards have been announced and we are over the moon to share that the debut play Heartlines: A Love Story by Sarah Waisvisz is one of five finalists for the Lambda Award in LGBTQ+ Drama! Heartlines imagines the extraordinary love, art, lives, and resistance of gender pioneers Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. A […]

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English alum Sarah Waisvisz shortlisted for Lambda Literary Award

April 7, 2026

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The shortlists for the 38th annual Lambda Literary Awards have been announced and we are over the moon to share that the debut play  by  is one of five finalists for the Lambda Award in LGBTQ+ Drama!

Heartlines imagines the extraordinary love, art, lives, and resistance of gender pioneers Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.

A huge congratulations to Sarah! Check out the complete list of Lambda Literary Award finalists !

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]]> English student Ayla Sully featured in FASS News Story /fass/2026/carleton-english-student-shares-her-co-op-journey/#new_tab Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:06:48 +0000 /english/?p=28033 My name is Ayla, I’m an undergraduate English student at Ӱԭ University, and I’m currently finishing up my three-term Co-op experience. When I first began, I thought I would be working ‘English-specific’ jobs like technical editing or working as an intern at a publishing house. Now, towards the end, I’ve learned that the skills I’ve built during my degree […]

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English student Ayla Sully featured in FASS News Story

April 7, 2026

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My name is Ayla, I’m an undergraduate English student at Ӱԭ University, and I’m currently finishing up my three-term Co-op experience. When I first began, I thought I would be working ‘English-specific’ jobs like technical editing or working as an intern at a publishing house. Now, towards the end, I’ve learned that the skills I’ve built during my degree have allowed me to contribute meaningfully in a variety of professional environments: the ,  and . 

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]]> Spotlight on Research: Professor Jody Mason has published a new book /english/2026/spotlight-on-research-february-2026/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:33:07 +0000 /english/?p=28004 While books are often cast as axiomatically good, Professor Jody Mason’s new book Books for Development: Canada In the Late Twentieth-Century World, argues that this idea can be troubled by revisiting the history of development.  Books for Development, published this month by McGill-Queen’s University Press, considers how state and non-state actors used books within the […]

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Spotlight on Research: Professor Jody Mason has published a new book

April 7, 2026

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While books are often cast as axiomatically good, Professor Jody Mason’s new book Books for Development: Canada In the Late Twentieth-Century World, argues that this idea can be troubled by revisiting the history of development. 

, published this month by McGill-Queen’s University Press, considers how state and non-state actors used books within the late twentieth-century development paradigm between 1945 and the end of the 1970s or so. Doing so allows her to track the ways the book, which came to function as a key representative of settler exceptionalism, was used within the context of the development paradigm to express solidarity with newly decolonized nations; to argue for the importance of Canadian leadership in the new international order; and to consolidate settler liberal rule at home. 



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]]> English Alum Dr Andrew Connolly to give a lecture at Ӱԭ /english/2026/english-alum-dr-andrew-connolly-to-give-a-lecture-at-carleton/ Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:05:21 +0000 /english/?p=27898 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 Ӱԭ entitled “Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Academics: Reconsidering the Ethics of Training Apprentice Scholars.” The event will take place […]

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English Alum Dr Andrew Connolly to give a lecture at Ӱԭ

April 7, 2026

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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 Ӱԭ entitled “Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Academics: Reconsidering the Ethics of Training Apprentice Scholars.” The event will take place Friday, March 27th from 3-4:30 pm in DT 1811. All are welcome. 

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]]> Introducing the 2026 Writer in Residence, Monia Mazigh /english/2026/introducing-the-2026-writer-in-residence-monia-mazigh/ Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:13:00 +0000 /english/?p=27892 Please join us in extending a warm welcome to our newest Writer in Residence, Monia Mazigh! Monia will be joining us for the Winter term and will be available for individual appointments. Anyone interested in meeting with her individually can book an appointment here. Monia Mazigh is an academic, award-winning Canadian author, and human rights activist. […]

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Introducing the 2026 Writer in Residence, Monia Mazigh

April 7, 2026

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Please join us in extending a warm welcome to our newest Writer in Residence, Monia Mazigh!

Monia will be joining us for the Winter term and will be available for individual appointments. Anyone interested in meeting with her individually can book an appointment .

Monia Mazigh is an academic, award-winning Canadian author, and human rights activist. She writes in French and English and to date has authored a memoir, three novels, an essay, and a critically acclaimed collection of short stories. Monia Mazigh is an Adjunct and Research Professor at Ӱԭ University in the Department of English Language and Literature, where she is the Writer in Residence for the Winter 2026 term.

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]]> Graduate students Matthias (Matty) Grosser and Simon Turner featured in FASS News Story /fass/story/spotlighting-fass-researchers-in-trans-and-queer-studies/#new_tab Thu, 04 Dec 2025 18:07:30 +0000 /english/?p=27770 At Ӱԭ’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), student researchers are reshaping how we understand representation and relationships through work that is grounded both in scholarship and lived experience. Through projects that examine topics on queer retellings of classical texts and the ethics of empathy within alternative kinship networks, students like Matthias (Matty) Grosser and Simon Turner are challenging […]

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Graduate students Matthias (Matty) Grosser and Simon Turner featured in FASS News Story

April 7, 2026

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At Ӱԭ’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), student researchers are reshaping how we understand representation and relationships through work that is grounded both in scholarship and lived experience.

Through projects that examine topics on queer retellings of classical texts and the ethics of empathy within alternative kinship networks, students like  and Simon Turner are challenging long-held assumptions in literature, film, and culture.

Their work highlights the power and consequences of the stories we tell, offering new ways to think about identity, community, and solidarity in a rapidly shifting social landscape.

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]]> What are you going to do with that English Degree? The BA in an AI World /fass/2025/what-are-you-going-to-do-with-that-english-degree-the-ba-in-an-ai-world/#new_tab Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:22:18 +0000 /english/?p=27701 When I chose English as my major, the question I was asked was: “What are you going to do with that degree?” Before I went into the program, my answer was straightforward: “An editor.” Now, after two and a half Co-op experiences, my answer has been to reframe the question itself. Rather than: “What are […]

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What are you going to do with that English Degree? The BA in an AI World

April 7, 2026

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

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