Professor Michael Helm wins Guggenheim Fellowship
http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2019/04/14/professors-michael-helm-and-mark-jurdjevic-awarded-guggenheim-fellowships/ Please visit the Guggenheim site here to read more about Professor Michael Helm
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Department of English announces FW17/18 Essay Prize Winners
The Department of English is proud to announce the winners of the essay prizes for the Fall/Winter 2017/2018 academic session. Best 1000-level Essay Prize Jessica Pasia Best 2000-level Essay Prize Justine Bonczek Best 3000-level Essay Prize Zain Akthar Best 4000-level Essay Prize Zachary Tesolin Honourable Mention: 4000-level Essay Prize Jane Fox Avie Bennett Prize in […]
Justin Lauzon, Double major in English and Creative Writing (2012) has published a book of Poetry.
Justin Lauzon, Double major in English and Creative Writing (2012), has published a book of poetry: This is Why We’re Made in the Dark (Quattro Books). http://quattrobooks.ca/books/this-is-why-were-made-in-the-dark/
Creative Writing Student Wins Major Prize
“York Creative Writing graduate Harpit Samra has won the 2018 Stony Brook Short Fiction Prize. Her story, “What Isolation Bred,” written in York’s program, was chosen from among more than two hundred entries from the United States and Canada. The judge, Pulitzer Prize winning writer Paul Harding, writes of Harpit’s story: “‘What Isolation Bred’ is […]
Passings: Professor Priscila Uppal was Canada’s coolest poet
The York University community is mourning the loss of one of its most distinguished teachers and writers, the poet, novelist and playwright Priscila Uppal (BA Hons. ’97, PhD ’04). She died on Sept. 4 in Toronto at the age of 43. Poet Priscila Uppal Professor Uppal, or simply “Priscila” as she preferred, arrived in the […]
Passings: Professor Priscila Uppal was Canada’s coolest poet
Professor Uppal, or simply “Priscila” as she preferred, arrived in the Department of English from Ottawa as an undergraduate in 1993, and graduated summa cum laude in 1997. After earning a master’s degree from the University of Toronto, she returned to York University for her doctorate, which was awarded in 2004. At the same time, she was […]
Prof. Thomas Loebel appointed Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies and AVP Graduate
York University President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda L. Lenton, issued the following announcement to the York University community: We are pleased to inform the York community that the search for dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies (FGS) and associate vice-president (AVP) Graduate has reached a successful conclusion. Last fall, a search committee was established, […]
Prof. Deanne Williams awarded Killam Research Fellowship to study girls’ roles in early English literature
English Professor Deanne Williams has been awarded a 2018 Killam Research Fellowship by the Canada Council for the Arts, to undertake the first ever study devoted to the history of the girl actor from the Middle Ages to the English Revolution. Williams, who is a Professor in York’s Department of English, Faculty of Liberal Arts […]
Prof. Julia Creet questions public privacy after genealogy cracks the Golden State Killer case
English Professor Julia Creet explains in The Conversation how police used a public genealogy database to solve the decades old Golden State Killer case. The Golden State Killer is a California serial murderer and rapist. Detectives used the genetic database called GEDmatch to find the accused Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, whom they suspect to have […]