Our Writing Department faculty members are among the leading voices in the field. Through journal contributions, case studies, essays, edited works and poems, their impactful research embodies the interdisciplinary spirit of academics within LA&PS, and across York University. Browse below for examples of their work.
Rich Shivener
2024
Living Digital Media presents a compelling exploration of the intricate relationships between creators and their digital media productions. It emphasizes …
Paul McLaughlin
2023
The inside story of the grassroots fight to have a suicide barrier erected on Toronto’s “bridge of death.” Most Torontonians …
Paul McLaughlin
2022
Asking the Best Questions offers insights for every step of the process: researching and securing an interview, building trust and rapport, …
Lori Turner
2021
Prometheus, Spring 2021.
Andrea McKenzie
2020
“Strong critical reading skills are an essential part of any student’s academic success. Teaching these vital skills requires educators to …
Brandee Easter
2020
One way toward a more embodied digital rhetoric is through interrogating constructions of digital disembodiment. To make that case, this …
Richard Rosenbaum
2019
From Propp’s functions to Levi-Strauss’s mythemes, from Greimas’s actants to Barthes’s narrative units, and beyond, numerous scholars of linguistics, comparative …
Brandee Easter
2018
C+= (pronounced “C plus equality” or “see equality”) is an anti-feminist programming language hoax that provides one example of the …
Andrea McKenzie
2018
Previous studies of First World War photography focus on soldiers’ experiences and professional photographers’ work, with little attention paid to …
Richard Rosenbaum
2017
Celebrating the persistence of Turtle Power Raise Some Shell critically and cleverly examines the origins, evolution, and impact of the …
Andrea McKenzie
2017
Drawing on new perspectives from war studies, literary studies, historical studies, gender studies, and visual art, L.M. Montgomery and War …
Richard Rosenbaum
2017
Acclaimed writer Richard Rosenbaum’s short stories range in genre from realism to speculative, and stylistically from literary to experimental. In …
Richard Rosenbaum
2017
A naïve and unbalanced teenage girl with claims of extraterrestrial origins only wants two things in the whole world—family and …
Andrea McKenzie
2016
“War-Torn Exchanges” offers unprecedented insight into the daily lives of Canada’s First World War nurses–from the privations of Gallipoli to …
Andrea McKenzie
2016
How did girls write about the First World War? St. Nicholas Magazine, a “magazine for young folks,” held contests for …
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