See details below.
Annual Atlantic Undergraduate English ConferenceThe AAUEC will take place at Acadia University this year. The following students have been selected to deliver their papers or to read their creative writing at the conference:
Jessica Alley, "Opposing the Spectacle: A Contrasting View from a Standing Female, Nude”
Alicha Keddy, "Memory, Alcohol and the Dissolution of Self in the Public Realm in Jean Rhys' Good Morning, Midnight”
Sarah Lane, "Barbie's Boyfriend: Anatomical Sex, Gender Identity and Gender Performance: Butler and Felman on Ritter's 'Ken Dolls’”
Ashley Milbury, "The Containment of Female Sexuality in Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock"
Chantelle Rideout, "The Language of Kissing in Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
Creative writing by Stephanie Kinder and Jessie Burke
Further details are available on the AAUEC website.
Honours Colloquium February 22
English honours students will be giving presentations on their year-long research projects, and all are welcome to attend. Come for the afternoon, or drop in when you can.
Monday, February 22
Noon to 4:00
Seton 404
Refreshments will be served.
Programme:
12:15 - 1:00. Sarah Lane, "Beowulf: The Monsters, the Critics, and the Movies"
1:00 - 1:15. Break
1:15 - 2:00.Jessie Burke, "Body, Identity and Voice: Theorizing Feminist Poetry"
2:00 - 2:30. Break
2:30 - 3:15. Ashley Milbury, "The Containment of Female Sexuality in the Poetry of Alexander Pope"
3:15 - 3:30. Break
3:30 - 4:15. Chantelle Rideout, "Un-telling the Underwritten: The Politics of Fragmentation in Ana Historic and Zong! "
Dr. Anna Smol, with Dr. Jeffrey MacLeod (Political Studies), presented a poster at the Research Open House on February 10 about their current research project, "Painterly Text: The Visual Imagination of J.R.R. Tolkien." Their presentation outlined Tolkien's painterly prose style, the interplay of text and image in Tolkien's creative process, the importance of the visual imagination in his theories on fantasy, and the possible application of these theories to other genres, media, and disciplines.
The image below is one element from the poster. The picture shows a manscript page from a draft of The Lord of the Rings.
Faculty Dialogue Series
Dr. Reina Green
Fanvids, Adaptation, and Shakespeare
Friday, January 22
2:00 p.m.
Seton 404
All are welcome to attend.
 | Two-minute pumpkin metaphors by students from the ENGL/WRIT 2221 Creative Writing class. |
This week-long university celebration showed off the work of a number of English students. Members of our department were directly involved in the following:
Random Acts of Poetry. Favourite lines of poetry were posted on the bulletin board next to the English Society office, Seton 555.
Conversazione: From the Latin conversation-, conversation: a meeting for conversation especially about art, literature, or science. Creative Writing 2000 and 4000 level workshop pieces that incorporate or respond to poetry and artwork of other writers, visual artists, and scientists were displayed on the bulletin boards in the English Corner.
 | The week began by surprising people walking into Seton who saw lines of poetry on the windows. |
Sites of Meaning II (in response to an exhibit of localized fragments of poetry in Middleton-by-Youlgreave, UK): Students in the current Creative Writing workshop inscribed, scattered, balloon-released, hid, scribbled, tucked, and left-to-be-found selected lines of their original work all over campus.
 | Sites of Meaning. Window poetry looking out from Seton. |
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Public reading of "The Hound of the Baskervilles." A family curse, a demon dog, and the great detective Sherlock Holmes. ENGL 1170 students, with Prof. David R. Wilson, publicly read the ghostly mystery, "The Hound of the Baskervilles."
 | Professor David Wilson taking a turn reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" |
"Lunch Hour." Introduction to Editing students read the latest draft of their short-short stories in the Seton and Rosaria cafeterias about their elementary school lunch hours.
Thanks go to English professors Clare Goulet and David Wilson and to their students in ENGL 1170-03, WRIT 2221, WRIT 2222, and WRIT 4410 for organizing and participating in these events.
News of recent graduates
Sally Colwell (B.A. Honours 2009) has been awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) M.A. Scholarship worth $17,000 to work on her Master's degree this year. She has enrolled in the M.A. program at the University of Western Ontario this term after finishing her thesis on theories of gender and sexuality in fan fiction scholarship.
Elizabeth Spence (B.A. Advanced Major 2009) has been awarded a $15,000 entrance scholarship to the M.A. in Environmental Studies program at Dalhousie University. In addition, she won the top prizes for a graduating English student at this year's May convocation: a Senate Medal for highest aggregate, as well as the Beryl Rowland Book Prize and the Sr. Marie Agnes Prize for English.
Ashley Thompson (B.A. Advanced Major 2009) was accepted into the journalism program at King's this September and has already sold her first story to the Chronicle Herald, "Body art that's on the cutting edge," that appeared on November 14.
Crystal Vaughan (B.A. Honours 2008), after taking a year away from academic life, was awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) M.A. Scholarship worth $17,000, which she will use to work on her M.A. at Dalhousie this year. Crystal wrote her honours thesis on translation theory and Old English poetry, and she is now planning to do research on language in Margaret Atwood's work.
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Recent / forthcoming publications
More complete details about faculty publications are available on individual Faculty Profile pages.
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, is forthcoming in the spring of 2010 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: 25 meditations on the work of Jan Zwicky, a hybrid literary / academic anthology manuscript of original, solicited work, to be released in Spring 2010 by Cormorant Books. The launch will be held at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Montreal, with some of the contributors working toward ACCUTE and CPA panels in conjunction with the book. 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 has published “Parables and Politics: How Benjamin and Deleuze & Guattari read Kafka” in Theory and Event 12.3 (2009). Her second book, More Money Than Brains: Why Schools Suck, College is Crap, and Idiots Think They're Right, is forthcoming from McClelland and Stewart Publishers in April 2010.
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.
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/forthcoming conference papers, talks, colloquia
More complete details about faculty conference papers are available on individual Faculty Profile pages.
Dr. Stephen Cloutier read from his new play (They That Take the Sword) on November 10 at The Living Room on Agricola St. He has also been asked to give a talk on P.G. Wodehouse at the Spring Garden public library on February 25, 2010.
Dr. Reina Green gave a talk in the Mount's Faculty Dialogue Series on "Fanvids, Adaptation, and Shakespeare" on January 22. Last summer, she also accepted an invitation to be part of a panel discussing Shakespeare's representation of women following Festival by the Marsh's performance of The Taming of the Shrew.
Dr. Karen Macfarlane has been invited to be a keynote speaker at the III Gothic Congress, "The Gothic: The Monster in Art," in Mexico City in March 2010. She gave a paper titled “The Monstrous Knowledge of Dr. Fu-Manchu” at the International Gothic Association Conference in Lancaster, UK, in July 2009; she also gave a talk on the subject in the Mount's Faculty Research Dialogue series on October 30.
Dr. Anna Smol, with Dr. Jeffrey MacLeod (Political Studies), presented a poster on February 10 at the MSVU Research Open House outlining their current research project, "Painterly Text: The Visual Imagination of J.R.R. Tolkien."
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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. She also organized a Canada Council reading with playwright Catherine Banks on March 26. The reading was well attended by Mount faculty, staff, and students.
Dr. David Monaghan has been awarded the distinction of the rank of Professor Emeritus on his retirement from full-time teaching this year.
Dr. Anna Smol has had her term as president of the Canadian Society of Medievalists extended for one more year, 2009-2010. She organized the annual meeting of CSM at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Carleton University in Ottawa, May 24-26, and will be organizing next year's CSM conference at Concordia University.
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