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February 2010

English Undergraduate Open House-Feb. 25

Sarah McNamer talk-Feb. 25

Charles Hatfield talk-February 12, 2:30pm AL 124

Department of English Book Launch-February 4

Austin Clarke reading-February 5

January 2010

Darren Wershler talk-January 21st "Imaginary Solutions: A Century of the Gizmo."

Carol Poster talk - January 13th-"Slave of Christ": Graeco-Roman Legal and Rhetorical Contexts for New Testament Epistolary Salutation Formulae

Barbara Heifferon talk-January 15th-"Colonial America's First Vaccination: Cotton Mather's Smallpox Project."

Jay Dolmage, Rhetorical Bodies and Embodied Rhetorics

December 2009

Professor Marcel O'Gorman interviewed by The Record on Dairy Diary

November 2009

Professor Aimée Morrison on Twitter and new media

First year PhD Student Lamees Al Ethari wins Dorothy Shoemaker Literary Award

Rei Terada, "Living Against Life," Thursday November 19, 4:00 PM  HH 373

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 Thursday October 22nd

Paul Stevens and Lynne Magnusson talks Tuesday October 13 and Wednesday October 14

September 2009

Sarah Beckwith talk Friday September 25th

Ray Siemens talk Thursday September 24th

Professor Ken Hirschkop Awarded SSHRC Grant

Professor Marcel OGorman Awarded CFI Grant

June 2

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

View the results of their work

View the course that inspired it

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.