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Prof. Priscila Uppal elected as Fellow to Royal Society of Canada

“Canada’s coolest poet”, York English Professor Priscila Uppal (BA Hons. ’97, PhD ’04), has received one of the country’s highest forms of recognition – election as a Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC). Uppal has accomplished a great deal in her 39 years. She has published 10 collections of poetry, two novels, a […]

Poetry and art combine in new book launching next week

Scrawled underneath or to one side of the photographs in a new book by artist Daniel Ehrenworth and York English Professor Priscila Uppal  – Curse. Sleep. (That’s the Thing About Trouble) – are bits of an ongoing conversation. Things like: “Protect your heels,” printed in capitals under a photo of a backyard with a swing […]

Four researchers to offer fresh ideas at Saturday’s York Circle event

From the ‘burbs to birds and from social justice to Olympic poetry, the next installment of the York Circle’s popular Lecture & Lunch series returns on Saturday, April 30. It promises plenty of new ideas for inquiring minds. As with previous York Circle Lecture & Lunch events, organizers have planned a full day of inspiring lectures […]

Professor Priscila Uppal talks Canadian books on radio throughout December

English Professor Priscila Uppal has found a new way to indulge her passion for the written word. She is now a reviewer for Radio Canada International, talking, of course, about all things bookish and Canadian. On various Wednesdays between 11 and 11:30am, including tomorrow, Uppal will discuss what she has been reading lately as part […]

Professor Priscila Uppal named guest editor of Canadian poetry anthology

York English Professor Priscila Uppal is busily dog-earing one literary journal after another, scratching notes in margins, bending page corners. The smell of ink fills her Toronto home. She is a poet on a quest as the recently announced guest editor of The Best Canadian Poetry in English anthology, sifting through thousands of poems published in 2010 […]

Audio: Professor speaks about Olympic poet-in-residence experience and new book

Priscila Uppal, professor of English in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, spoke to Matt Galloway on CBC’s Metro Morning March 24 about her work as poet-in-residence during the 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Games. Uppal wrote poems about the competitions and read them to the athletes and their families, which are archived […]

York professor launches poetry collection on health and pop culture

Surreal, absurdist, satirical, playful and yet, at times, deeply serious is how York English Professor Priscila Uppal (BA Hons. ’97, PhD ’04) describes Traumatology, her latest collection of poetry officially launching on Wednesday. A poet and novelist, Uppal will read from Traumatology during the launch on March 24 at 8pm at the Monarch Tavern, 12 […]