Yaniya Lee is the author of Selected Writing on Black Canadian Art (2024, figure ground/Art Metropole) and Buseje Bailey: Reasons Why We Have to Disappear Every Once in a While, A Black Art History Project (2024, Artexte). Join Tiana Reid’s class, “Hauntings: Late 20th Century Black Poetics in the United States and Canada,” for a […]
Cody Caetano is a writer and literary agent at CookeMcDermid. He is an off-reserve member of Pinaymootang First Nation. His memoir, Half-Bads in White Regalia, won the 2023 Indigenous Voices Award for Best Published Prose. Excerpts from the book earned the 2020 Indigenous Voices Award for Best Unpublished Prose. He lives in Toronto. Join Cody […]
The Department of English held its annual English Awards Reception on Feb. 3, honouring 14 students for their exemplary essay writing and academic achievement. This year's recipients represent the 21st cohort since the awards began, which aim to recognize academic excellence and inspire future students through a maintained online catalogue of award-winning essays. Read the […]
By Christopher Douris | January 10, 2025 When Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang was sworn in as Ghana’s first female vice-president on Jan. 7, it marked the latest barrier shattered by the York University alumna. Her inauguration is another milestone in her journey from distinguished academic to national leader. Long before entering the political arena, she achieved […]
By Dana Patrascu-Kingsley, Gail Vanstone | December 20, 2024 Organizers of York University’s acclaimed Canadian Writers in Person Lecture Series – humanities Professor Gail Vanstone and Department of English contract faculty member Dana Patrascu-Kingsley – offer their 2024 list of best books to read over the holiday break and beyond. Vanstone and Patrascu-Kingsley organize the annual series that brings new and established […]
Edited by Ashley Goodfellow Craig York University student Matteo Cerilli knew immediately what he wanted to do when he saw the list of DARE (Dean's Award for Research Excellence) research projects. Drawn to a project led by Assistant Professor Tom Hooper, in the Department of Equity Studies, investigating protests that followed the 1981 Toronto bathhouse […]
Assistant Professor Katarina O'Briain was one of several LA&PS faculty members who received funding under the SSHRC Insight programs. The SSHRC grant programs fund research focused on building knowledge and understanding of people, societies, and the world. Among these newly funded LA&PS-led projects is a study on the inequality of retirement time in Canada, research […]
Excerpt by Afkaheen Alam from The Excalibur, 21 November 2024 This academic year, the English department is offering two new courses in two subjects that have seen an increase in demand among students over recent years. Professor Vikrant Dadawala, newly appointed assistant professor, is teaching the South Asian Literature and Introduction to Postcolonial Literature courses. […]
The annual President’s Creative Writing Awards, the Lorna Marsden Prize for Creative Writing in French, the Daniel Whittaker-Van Dusen Prize for Emerging Poets and the Richard Teleky Short Fiction Prize are accepting unpublished and original writing submissions. The President’s Awards and the Lorna Marsden Prize are open to all full or part time York University undergraduate students. The Daniel Whittaker-Van Dusen and […]
Derek Cohen, a professor emeritus of the English Department in York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, passed away peacefully on Oct. 11. Cohen, a beloved member of the English Department, came to York University in 1968 and taught Shakespeare and Renaissance drama until his retirement in 2008. He was revered by his […]