English News

Congratulations to Prof. B.W. Powe on the publication of his latest book “Decoding Dust”

Congratulations to Prof. B.W. Powe on the publication of his latest book “Decoding Dust” a new collection of poems (NeoPoiesisPress, 2016).

Professor wins Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award

Communal eating can shape or destroy relationships. That’s what York English Professor David Goldstein found while researching and writing Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare’s England, published by Cambridge University Press. His book recently won the Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award for 2014. The award is given to a work which makes an important contribution to the […]

Prof. Priscila Uppal elected as Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada

“Canada’s coolest poet,” York English Professor Priscila Uppal (BA Hons. ’97, PhD ’04), has received one of the country’s highest forms of recognition – election as a Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC). Uppal has accomplished a great deal in her 39 years. She has published 10 collections of poetry, two novels, a […]