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New section of 1170 opens for the Fall term
Dr. Chris Ferns wins Donald C. Savage Award
New section of 1170 opens for the Fall term
A section of ENGL 1170 (Introduction to Literature: Reading Literature) has been added to the timetable for the Fall term (section 07). The class will meet on Mondays and Wednesdays from 12:30-1:45 and will be taught by Lesley Newhook. Check WebAdvisor for more details and to register.
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News of recent graduates
Sally Colwell (B.A. Honours 2009) has been awarded a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to pursue her doctoral studies at the University of Western Ontario. The scholarship is worth $35,000 / year for three years. She is the second Mount English graduate to win this prestigious award within the last four years, the other being Adam Hutka (B.A. Honours 2005), who is working on his PhD at Dalhousie University.
Ashley Milbury (B.A. Honours 2010) has been awarded a SSHRC M.A. scholarship worth $17,500, which she will take up when she enters the M.A. program at Concordia University in Montreal this coming year. Elizabeth Spence (B.A. Advanced Major 2009) also received a SSHRC M.A. scholarship for her work towards a Master's degree in Environmental Studies at Dalhousie.
Congratulations are also due to Chantelle Rideout (B.A. Honours 2010) who has been accepted into the creative writing M.A. at the University of New Brunswick and to Sarah Lane (B.A. Honours 2010) who has been accepted into the Dalhousie Law School.
English grads: let us know what you're up to! (Email Karen Macfarlane, the department chair, or Anna Smol, the website manager, with your news.)
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Dr. Chris Ferns wins CAUT award
Dr. Chris Ferns has been awarded the Donald C.Savage Award by the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT). The award "
was instituted to honour and to recognize outstanding achievements in the promotion of collective bargaining in Canadian universities and colleges." Dr. Ferns has served in various capacities in the Mount's Faculty Association, especially as chief negotiator through several contracts, and he is the past president of ANSUT, the Association of Nova Scotia University Teachers. You can read more in the CAUT Bulletin announcement.
New books by English faculty
Clare Goulet has co-edited with Mark Dickinson a collection titled Lyric Ecology: An Appreciation of the Work of Jan Zwicky (Cormorant Books, 2010). This collection of twenty-five meditations from various contributors comprises the first formal consideration of Zwicky’s philosophy. Read a full description on our Research page.
Dr. Laura Penny (English and Cultural Studies) has published her second book with McClelland and Stewart called
More Money Than Brains: Why School Sucks, College is Crap and Idiots Think They're Right. According to the publisher, the book is a " brilliant defence of the humanities and social sciences," and "takes a deadly and extremely funny aim at those who would dumb us down." You can read the full description on our
Research page. A
Globe and Mail review was published online on Friday 23 April and in print on Saturday 24 April.
Recent / forthcoming publications
More complete details about faculty publications are available on individual Faculty Profile pages and on the Research page.
Dr. Mackenzie Bartlett's “Mirth as Medium: Spectacles of Laughter in the Victorian Séance Room” is forthcoming in 2010 in The Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Occult. Eds. Tatiana Kontou and Sarah Willburn (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate).
Kristin Domm's fourth book for children, Eagle of the Sea, has been published by Nimbus Publishers.
Dr. Chris Ferns has two articles forthcoming: "Teaching Utopia and Anti-Utopia" in Teaching Science Fiction. Ed. Andy Sawyer and Peter Wright. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan; and "Utopian and Dystopian Fiction" in Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction. Ed. Brian Shaffer. Oxford: Blackwell, 2010.
Dr. Graham Fraser has recently published “’No More Than Ghosts Make’: The Hauntology and Gothic Minimalism of Beckett’s Late Work” in Gothic and Modernism. Ed. John Paul Riquelme. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2008. 168-179 and the article “The Calligraphy of Desire: Sade, Barthes, and Beckett’s How It Is” in Twentieth Century Literature 54.4 (Winter 2008).
Clare Goulet has co-edited (with Mark Dickinson) and contributed to Lyric Ecology: An Appreciation of the Work of Jan Zwicky, a hybrid literary / academic anthology manuscript of original, solicited work, which has been released by Cormorant Books. The subject area of the book is poetics, philosophy, and ecology.
Dr. Reina Green's article, " 'Ears Prejudicate' in Mariam and Duchess of Malfi" has been reprinted in Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700: volume 6: Elizabeth Cary, edited by Karen Raber (Ashgate, July 2009). She also has two book reviews forthcoming on Marta Straznicky's Privacy, Playreading, and Women's Closet Drama in English Studies in Canada 33.3, and Alison Findlay's Playing Spaces in Early Women's Drama in Early Theatre 12.1 (Spring 2009): 173-79.
Dr. Karen Macfarlane 's article "Mummy Knows Best: Knowledge and the Unknowable in Turn of the Century Mummy Fiction" has been published in the inaugural issue of Horror Studies.
Dr. David Monaghan is one of the authors, along with Ariane Hudelet and John Wiltshire, of The Cinematic Jane Austen: Essays on the Filmic Sensibility of the Novels, published by McFarland.
Dr. John Morgenstern's book, Playing with Books: A Study of the Reader as Child, has been published by McFarland & Company.
Dr. Laura Penny's second book, More Money Than Brains: Why Schools Suck, College is Crap, and Idiots Think They're Right has been published by McClelland and Stewart. See above for more details. She has also published “Parables and Politics: How Benjamin and Deleuze & Guattari read Kafka” in Theory and Event 12.3 (2009).
Dr. Anna Smol has had an essay accepted for the forthcoming MLA Approaches to Teaching Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and Other Works, edited by Leslie Donovan, due out in 2011. The essay is based on Dr. Smol's ENGL 1171 syllabus. She also has an essay forthcoming in The Hero Recovered: Essays In Honor of George Clark (Medieval Institute Publications) entitled "The Child, the Primitive, and the Medieval: Making Medieval Heroes in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries."
Dr. Rhoda Zuk (along with Donna Varga, Child & Youth Studies) has an article, "Golliwogs and Teddy Bears: Children's Popular Culture and 'Innocent Racism'," forthcoming in The Journal of Popular Culture.
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Recent conference papers, talks, colloquia
More complete details about faculty conference papers are available on individual Faculty Profile pages.
Dr. Karen Macfarlane gave a paper, "Fu-Manchu's 'Strange Knowledge,'" at the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) meeting, which was held at the Congess of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Concordia University in Montreal in May. She also organized two panels, "'Borderline Cases' in Canadian Literature" and "Canadian (Dis)contents." for ACCUTE. Earlier in the year on March 24, she gave the keynote address at the III Gothic Congress in Mexico: "Here be Monsters: Imperialism, Knowledge, and the Limits of Empire."
Susanne Marshall gave a paper, "Extending the Boundaries of North: Cultural Transformation in Joseph Boyden's Through Black Spruce" at the annual conference of ACCUTE (The Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English) held at Concordia University in Montreal in May.
Lesley Newhook gave a paper at ACCUTE (The Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English) at Concordia University in Montreal: "Cementing Sororal Bonds and Superseding Double-Binds: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Women in Cultural Displacement."
Dr. Anna Smol gave a paper, "Traditional Storytelling, Tolkien, and Contemporary Fandom" at the 7th Annual Tolkien conference at the University of Vermont (April 9-11).
Dr. Rhoda Zuk presented a paper titled "Playing Innocent: Golliwogs, Racism, and History" at the Children's Play, Children's Pleasure symposium at Hofstra University (March 19 - 20).
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Appointments, grants, other activities
Dr. Reina Green has received funding from the MSVU Committee on Research and Publications for her research on actor and director Ben Greet, who is credited with bringing open-air Shakespeare to North America at the turn of the twentieth century.
Dr. Anna Smol organized the annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Medievalists at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Concordia University in Montreal, May 29-31. She has completed her term as president of CSM and now sits on the executive committee as the past president.
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