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April 2013
November 2012
- Friends of English Career Event November 14
- UG Tea Party November 15
- Stop Idling: An Evening with the English Department, SJU English, Alumni and Friends
August 2012
June 2012
May 2012
April 2012
March 2012
- Department Awards Ceremony - Thursday March 29 List of award winners
- Professor Neil Randall from the Department of English Language and Literature receives grant worth more than $2.5 million
- First Issue of Canadian Journal for Disability Studies now available online. Edited by Prof. Dolmage
- Prof. Harris quoted in The Chronice of Higher Education
- Robert Paul Weston reading on March 27
- Prof. Harris speaks at Stratford Campus on Homer, the Brain and Rhetoric on March 21
- Poet and Alumna, Julia McCarthy reading - March 8
- CML Exhibition: Research Routines. Opening Reception and Artist Talk: March 7
- Media Scholar N. Katherine Hayles to speak on March 6
- Disabling Failure: Sex, Embodiment, and Crip Critique with speakers Robert McRuer and Morgan Holmes - March 1
February 2012
- Video of Esi Edugyan's reading at UW
- $50,000 per year in RIM grad scholarships in English
- Prof. Morrison appears on Rogers TV "Talk Local" - February 16
- Giller Prize Winner Esi Edugyan reading - February 16
- Faculty Student Mixer - February 15th
- Rishma Dunlop and Tanis MacDonald read on February 9th
- CML Salon: Digital Media Research Sharing Session - Feb. 1
January 2012
- English Alumnus Michael Truscello's documentary is #3 on Top 10 World Changing Documentaries of 2011
- Prof. Harris' interview on Contemporary Issues. Part 1, 2, 3 and 4.
- Prof. Morrison featured in Globe and Mail
December 2011
- QS rates uWaterloo English a leading Department
- Prof. Morrison's article on collaborative writing in the Humanities
- Prof. O'Gorman speaks at the MUSEUM - Dec. 17.
- English Student Participates in the FELT Lab Project
November 2011
October 2011
September 2011
- Meet The Artists Event - September 24,2011
- SLSA Conference, September 22 -25, 2011
- Fall 2011 newsletter
August 2011
- Prof. Morrison speaks about fan exclusivity and Marshall McLuhan on CBC's Spark
- Prof. Dolmage edits special issue of Open Words on disabilty
- The Directory of Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800 - 1900
July 2011
- Jennifer Harris on Mystery Writers and a Secret Cache of 19th Century Canadian Writers
- Critical Media Lab Event at The Museum July 9
- Job Posting - Extended Learning Coordinator
June 2011
- Literature, Rhetoric and Values Conference June 3 - 5, 2011
- Debate between Christopher Hitchens and Barry Brummett, June 4, 2011
April 2011
- Dept. of English Fall 2010 newsletter
- Profs. Harris and Tolmie edit issue of Metaphor & Symbol
- Can Lit in the Balkans: Prof. Warley's Zagreb blog
- Prof. Acheson on Digital Media and Historical Research
March 2011
- Dept. of English Graduate Awards - Guidelines and Deadlines
- Dept. of English Undergraduate Awards - Guidelines and Deadlines
- Ph.D. Student, Lamees Al Ethari, wins Dorothy Shoemaker Literary Award for Prose
- Dept. Awards Ceremony
- Winter 2011 newsletter
January 2011
- Games Institute Kick-Off event - Tuesday, January 11
- Rambo Author and English alumnis, David Morrell speaks about his work - January 27, 2011
- RIM Co-op information session - January 27,2011
- Prof. Kenneth Graham on the Bard
November 2010
- 2009 Newsletter
-
Professors Morrison's research on digital privacy, in the Stratford Beacon Herald
- Dr. O'Gorman in The Record "UW prof wins award for project probing the mystery of Tom Thomson’s canoe"
- Ken Hirschkop and Michael MacDonald have been awarded "Outstanding Faculty Performance Awards" for 2009-2010
- Lecture/Performance and Exhibition by Nick Rombes - Tuesday, November 16
- 2010 Undergraduate Program Review - Thursday, November 4
- Fall 2010 Newsletter
October 2010
- English Society Book Club Meeting - Thursday, October 28
-
50th anniversary of the Faculty of Arts lecture by Dr. Morrison on "It's called 'social media' because it's all about people: digital culture and arts education" - Thursday, October 28
- Stratford Digital Media Series inaugural lecture by Dr. Morrison on “Why do you need to know that?”: Negotiating personal privacy in the database society - Wednesday, October 27
- Visiting Speaker Dr. Mary Louise Pratt - Wednesday, October 12
- Visiting Speaker Dr. Elaine Showalter - Wednesday, October 6
- CFP: Conference on Literature, Rhetoric, and Values
September 2010
- 50th Anniversary barbecue with George Elliott Clarke - Friday, September 17
- Dr. Gordon Campbell on “How to get published” - Wednesday, September 15
July 2010
- Critical Media Lab is now at The Museum in Kitchener
- Terry O’Reilly on his career, his radio show The Age of Persuasion, and the advertising industry
- CML's Dairy Diary on Mashable
June 2010
May 2010
- Digital Media: Sound Bites from Professor Aimee Morrison
- Holy Cow! Elsie tweets at the CML
- Terry Eagleton on "The Nature of Evil" - Thursday, May 13
- Five Things You Need to Know About... Terry Eagleton
April 2010
- Check out the Critical Media Lab's "Dairy Diary"
- Winter 2010 Film Series: "Fear of Media"- Jan. 28, Feb. 25, Mar. 25, Apr. 29
March 2010
- David Bromwich talk “Edmund Burke and India” - Thursday, March 25
- English Department Awards 2009/2010
- Annual English Awards Ceremony - Tuesday, March 23
- 2009-2010 Graduate and Undergraduate awards
- Lauren Berlant talk "After the Good Life, The Impasse: Time Out, Human Resources and the Neoliberal Present"- Thursday, March 18
February 2010
- English Undergraduate Open House - Thursday, February 25
- Sarah McNamer talk "Medieval Literature and the History of Emotion" - Thursday, February 25
- Charles Hatfield talk "On Pioneering Comics Genius Jack Kirby" - Friday, February 12
- Austin Clarke reading - Friday, February 5
- Department of English Book Launch - Thursday, February 4
January 2010
- Alvin Dust, 1922-2009
- Darren Wershler talk "Imaginary Solutions: A Century of the Gizmo" - Thursday, January 21
- Barbara Heifferon talk "Colonial America's First Vaccination: Cotton Mather's Smallpox Project" - Friday January 15
- Daniel Gross talk "Defending the Humanities Through Charles Darwin's The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals (1872)" - Thursday, January 14
- Carol Poster talk "Slave of Christ": Graeco-Roman Legal and Rhetorical Contexts for New Testament Epistolary Salutation Formulae - Wednesday, January 13
- Jay Dolmage talk "Rhetorical Bodies and Embodied Rhetorics" - Friday, January 8
December 2009
November 2009
- Professor Aimée Morrison on Twitter and new media
- First year PhD Student Lamees Al Ethari wins Dorothy Shoemaker Literary Award
- Rei Terada talk "Living Against Life" - Thursday November 19
October 2009
- Professor Marcel O'Gorman interviewed by CTV on technology and children's health
- SIGDOC Graduate Competition
- Listen to BA and MA graduate Y-Dang Troeung's interview on CBC Radio's OutFront The Lucky One Returns or listen via the CBC website
- Michael Schoenfeldt talk “Eloquent Blood and Deliberative Bodies: The Physiology of Metaphysical Poetry" - Thursday October 22nd
- Paul Stevens talk "Milton, Geoffrey of Monmouth, and the Temptations of Archipelagic Criticism" - Tuesday October 13
- Lynne Magnusson talks talk "What to do with Discourse Analysis in Early Modern Studies" - Wednesday October 14
September 2009
- English Visiting Speakers Series 2009-2010
- Sarah Beckwith talk "Confession and Acknowledgment in Shakespeare's Cymbeline." - Friday September 25th
- Ray Siemens talk "Toward a Future of the History of the Book" - Thursday September 24th
- Professor Ken Hirschkop Awarded SSHRC Grant
- Professor Marcel OGorman Awarded CFI Grant
June 2009
- GPS Art, Geocaching, and "Sousveillance" - Graduate students in the Critical Media Lab create public art during the Spotlight on the Arts Festival, June 5th-7th
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October 2008
- Listen to English Professor Randy Harris interviewed on CBC Radio's The Current 01/10/08 Lies, Rhetoric and Truthiness listen via the CBC website
May 2008
- Professor Andrew McMurry is an invited speaker at an international conference on "Poetic Ecologies" to be held at Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium this May.
- Professor Aimee Morrison will be teaching again at the Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria, May 26-30. Her course is called "Multimedia: Design for Visual, Auditory, and Interactive Electronic Environments."
- Check out Professor Acheson's website for improving research skills for English majors.
- Professor Acheson used the website for her last offering of ENGL 301H.
- Professor John North is the winner of the 2006 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Society for the History of Authorship. Reading, and Publishing. Read about the award in the Arts Research Update. Explore his Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900.
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