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 […]
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 […]
Mimi Choi earned her BA in English at the University of Toronto, and was a doctoral student and teaching assistant at York University when she passed away on 22 August 2017. She was the co-editor, with Elizabeth Patton, of a collection of essays, Home Sweat Home: Perspectives on Housework and Modern Domestic Relationships, published in 2014, […]
Christopher Innes arrived at York in 1969, and was the longest-serving active member in the Department of English. He made a profound and lasting difference during his time at the University. Innes died due to complications with ALS on June 19. Innes was a Distinguished Research Professor, held a senior Canada Research Chair, and at […]
Innes was a Distinguished Research Professor, he held a senior Canada Research Chair and at the time of his death he was the incumbent of a York Research Chair. A world-renowned scholar, he remained energetically active and engaged in cutting-edge research until the very end of his life. As a department member and a citizen […]
Prof. Reed Doob passed away in Toronto on Saturday, March 11. Prof. Reed Doob joined York in 1969. She was a professor of English and Dance, teaching both undergraduate and graduate students in those departments, as well as in the Graduate Programs in Women’s Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies. Prof. Reed Doob was chair of the […]
The family history business is booming. English Professor Julia Creet explores the bigger picture behind the ancestry industry in her new documentary, Data Mining the Deceased: Ancestry and the Business of Family. Filmed in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Iceland, the documentary takes a look at people’s motivations behind the business of […]
The family history business is booming. English Professor Julia Creet explores the bigger picture behind the ancestry industry in her new documentary, Data Mining the Deceased: Ancestry and the Business of Family. Filmed in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Iceland, the documentary takes a look at people’s motivations behind the business of […]
Professor Gobert received this honour at Convocation in autumn 2016. Congratulations!