In 2023, our days are spent staring at screens. A laptop is a necessity for most university students. Assignments, lecture slides, and announcements are all posted on online classroom portals. Outside of academia, a day at work likely entails a day at the computer. Read full article on Excalibur
This month poet, essayist, novelist and Department of English and Humanities Associate Professor B.W. Powe released his latest book, Ladders Made of Water. Powe’s new work is a collection featuring poems, mini-essays, stories, parables, meditations on contemporary cinema and unfinished rock opera lyrics. Blending essaying and poetry, Powe says Ladders Made of Water was writing in an impressionistic, […]
On February 6, the Department of English honoured award recipients at the annual English Achievements & Awards Reception. The program offers a number of awards each year, including prizes and scholarships that recognize the achievements of majors and minors in English and Creative Writing. Several awards were established to honour former faculty members; one honours […]
A fourth-year PhD candidate studying English Literature in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) has published her debut novel he called me kid on Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing. Tita Kyrtsakas wrote the novel when she was 23. The story revolves around Clementine, an aspiring writer in her final year of high school […]
At York, in addition to her focus on literary theory, discourse analysis, and modernism/postmodernism, she contributed to the graduate programs in English, Humanities, and Social and Political Thought. From 2011-14, and again in 2015-16, she served as the director of the Graduate Program in English and worked vigorously on behalf of the Faculty of Graduate […]
York University Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) Professors Alison Halsall (Department of Humanities) and Jonathan Warren (Department of English) have published The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader, the first book of its kind, with the University Press of Mississippi. The Reader honours work that emerged from and was influenced by the underground and alternative comix movements of the mid-1960s to become what […]
Published by Duke University Press, the book explores music as a material practice of vibration that emerges from a politics of vibration and which constructs a vibrational space of individual and collective transformation. Focusing on the work of three contemporary musicians – Hindustani classical vocalist Pandit Pran Nath, Swedish drone composer and philosopher Catherine Christer […]
Matteo L. Cerilli, a York undergraduate student pursuing a BA honours with a double major in creative writing and professional writing from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, recently sold his debut novel Lockjaw. The novel is a multiple-perspective young adult horror novel corresponding to Stephen King’s IT and the hit television show […]
The online ceremony held on May 24 honoured the 2021-2022 winning submissions. The event was organized by David Goldstein, creative writing program coordinator and associate professor of English, with support from staff members Kimberly Wilson, Rose Crawford and Marijana Gmitrovic. “The awards ceremony is one of the highlights of our year in creative writing. Having the opportunity to honour students from […]
Dr. Marilou McKenna earned her BA from University of Guelph and completed her PhD in Victorian Literature at York University. As a CUPE faculty member from the 1980s, she had experience teaching in a wide range of areas, including American and British Literature, gothic literature, and poetry. She was an active member of the William […]