This book examines the representation of empathy in contemporary poetry after crisis, specifically poetry after the Holocaust, the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and Hurricane Katrina. The text argues that, recognizing both the possibilities and dangers of empathy, the poems under consideration variously invite and refuse empathy, thus displaying what Anna Veprinska terms empathetic dissonance. […]
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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: This is Why We're Made in the Dark (Quattro Books). http://quattrobooks.ca/books/this-is-why-were-made-in-the-dark/
"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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]