Faculty News

LA&PS Professor and Associate Dean, Maria João Maciel Jorge, releases new book of essays delving into cultural heritage and hyphenated identity

Maria João Maciel Jorge, professor and Associate Dean of Global and Community Engagement, released her newest book, The Hyphen: And Other Thoughts From the In-Between, with publisher Arquipélago Press. Within the pages of The Hyphen readers will find a collection of thoughtful and poignant essays exploring cultural heritage, hyphenated identity and the enduring pull of […]

Professor Maria João Maciel Jorge and alumnus Vander Tavares highlight lived experiences of marginalized Canadians in new, co-edited book

In Reconstructions of Canadian Identity: Towards Diversity and Inclusion, editors Professor Maciel Jorge and Vander Tavares bring together diverse perspectives to investigate inclusion and exclusion within the processes, discourses, and practices that forge and frame Canadian identity. They examine the way in which current multicultural policies continue to benefit the dominant groups and (further) harm […]

DLLL professor, Nidhi Sachdeva on transforming the virtual classroom into community

From YouTube-hosted lectures to gamifying the classroom, The Learning Curve is a series showcasing how course instructors in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies are embracing the online learning environment with creative approaches to teaching remotely. In this week’s instalment, Nidhi Sachdeva, a Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics, shares […]

Professor Christina Kraenzle co-edited a new journal article: Transnationalism in German Comics, special issue of Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics

This is a special themed issue on Transnationalism in German Comics, and is guest edited by Christina Kraenzle & Julia Ludewig – https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21504857.2020.1718836

York professor edits new collection focusing on Chinese Canadian identities

York University Assistant Professor Jessica Tsui-yan Li (Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies) contributed to Chinese Canadian studies in her recently published edited volume The Transcultural Streams of Chinese Canadian Identities (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019). Jessica Tsui-yan Li Focusing on the geopolitical and economic circumstances that have prompted […]

Our Planet, Our Responsibility

The Global Climate Strike: “Our Planet, Our Responsibility” On September 27th 2019, I attended the Global Climate Strike in downtown Toronto. This is one of the largest anti-climate change rallies to take place not only in North America, but around the world. This year, 7.6 million people worldwide participated to advocate for the environment and encourage people […]

Creation Sounds NEW book by Professor Maria Figueredo – now available in paperback

NOW in paperback! This book considers the role of music in multi-mediated formats that privilege the performative elements of meaning production. By examining innovations by Latin American writers, the intertextual relationships between the historical weight of influential voices are juxtaposed with twenty-first-century acts of writing. The reception of texts mixes a plethora of voices, meta-histories […]