91ÑÇÉ« PhD Candidate in English Samantha Bernstein (BA ’06, MA ’09), daughter of Canadian poet Irving Layton, explores the complex world of families, life, love, politics and trying to live ethically in a corporatizing world in her epistolary memoir, Here We Are Among the Living: A Memoir in Emails. The launch of Here We Are […]
91ÑÇÉ« President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri will visit Brazil from April 25 to May 2 as part of a delegation to promote Canada-Brazil partnerships in research, innovation and higher education. The mission, led by the Governor General of Canada David Johnston, is the largest of its kind in Canadian history, with more than two dozen Canadian university […]
Cultures meet here in Canada, says Agnès Whitfield. Literary translation is an essential means of sharing heritages, yet it is a field too often overlooked and undervalued. That situation is about to improve with the launch of the first volume in a new series called Vita Traductiva. A joint initiative of the Research Group on […]
 ...if I could preach to birds I'd tell them – fly and kiss, lives depend on this.                      "The Language of Birds" Lover Through Departure, the newest collection of poetry by 91ÑÇÉ« English and education Professor Rishma Dunlop, offers up an enticing glimpse of lovers as they weave a world of secrets with their affairs of the […]
Who knew that deep in the Canadian psyche lay a penchant for poems about bears, guns, drinking, war, fruit and Adam & Eve? Well, if you’d spent almost every waking second for two months reading thousands of poems from over 50 journals as 91ÑÇÉ« English Professor Priscila Uppal did, that’s just one of the things […]
As part of the Studio Speaker Series, former 91ÑÇÉ« English professor, acclaimed writer, raconteur and provocateur Barry Callaghan will speak about his life as a literary journalist and read from newly published book Raise You Twenty: Essays and Encounters 1964Â - 2011, Volume Three.. The reading will take place Wednesday, Sept. 21, from noon to 2pm, […]