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Congratulations to Christine Kim
Christine Kim has been awarded an honourable mention in the competition for the Richard Plant prize, awarded by the Canadian Association for Theatre Research / Association Canadienne de la Recherche Théâtrale for the best English-language article on Canadian theatre. Christine’s honourable mention comes for the article “Performing Asian Canadian Intimacy: Theatre Replacement’s Bioboxes and Awkward Multiculturalism,” published in the new journal Asian Canadian Theatre. Christine’s achievement will be acknowledged at Congress on May 28th.
On Friday April 20th the English Department officially dedicated its new grad student lounge to the memory of Gregory Placonouris (MA 2004).
Congratulations to Sophie McCall
Sophie’s book, First Person Plural: Aboriginal Storytelling and the Ethics of Collaborative Authorship, is one of just four publications shortlisted for the 2011 Gabrielle Roy Prize of the ACQL. The winner will be announced on May 26th at Congress. Congratulations, Sophie, on this great honour awarded to your first monograph!
Congratulations to Erin Keating!
Congratulations to Erin Keating on the successful defence of her doctoral dissertation, "Affect, Audience, and Genre: Reading the Connections between the Restoration Playhouse and the Secret History." Erin's defence and dissertation were of the highest quality and in recognition of her outstanding achievement she has been awarded the mark of distinction. We wish her all the best in her future scholarly pursuits.
This latest volume includes a feature on "Studying the Cape Breton Novel," as well as information on upcoming events and courses.
The department of English (along with Linguistics, Philosophy, and Communication) is offering a new undergraduate Certificate in Writing and Rhetoric. Encompassing the genres, motives, and politics of meaningful communication throughout our lives, rhetoric courses address topics such as language and the law, the language of consumerism, gender and language, the rhetoric of humour, the rhetoric of environmentalism, and negotiation and dialogue in First Nations issues.