childhood and literature

York PhD graduate and alumna wins two prizes for history of Ontario’s summer camps

Historian and York grad Sharon Wall (PhD ’03) has won two awards for her book, The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55. In the spring, the book won the Canadian Historical Association’s 2010 Clio Prize for Ontario, and now it has won the Champlain Society’s Floyd S. Chalmers Award in Ontario […]

Glendon prof’s new Spanish language book looks at human playfulness

The main focus for Alejandro Zamora, a professor in Glendon’s Department of Hispanic Studies, is the study of the modern novel, including its philosophical and social issues, which he explores in his recently published book. Jugar por amor propio: Personajes lúdicos de la novela moderna (Playing for Self Esteem: Playful Characters in the Modern Novel) […]