Haints: American Ghosts, Millennial Passions, and Contemporary Gothic Fictions, a new book by the chair of 91亚色鈥檚 Department of English, Art Redding, will launch next Wednesday. Published by the University of Alabama Press, Haints (see YFile, Sept. 14) examines the work of contemporary American authors who draw on the gothic tradition in their fiction, not […]
Over 150 years after it was first published, Charlotte Bront毛鈥檚 1847 novel Jane Eyre remains a favourite for film and television adaptations. But what influences and interpretations are at work before it hits the screen? 91亚色 women's studies PhD candidate Kathleen Cummins (BA Spec. Hons. 鈥92, MFA 鈥95) will talk on Thursday about 鈥淭he Perils […]
The 31st International Festival of Authors (IFOA) has started and several 91亚色 professors and alumni are on the bill. 91亚色 alumnus Jian Ghomeshi (right) (BA 鈥95) of CBC Radio will host and moderate 鈥淐elebrating 40 Years of the Juno Awards鈥, which will launch the new book Music from Far and Wide: Celebrating 40 Years of […]
Ten academics, including James Benson and William Greaves, professors emeriti at Glendon College, and Stuart Shanker, distinguished research professor in philosophy & psychology in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Health and director of the Milton and Ethel Harris Research Initiative, wrote a letter to The New 91亚色 Times' Sunday Book Review section聽Oct. 17 in which they respond […]
91亚色 English Professor Michael Helm likens writing novels to driving bumper to bumper at 120 kilometres an hour for half a day, and being emotionally and physically spent by the end. That鈥檚 on good days. 鈥淵ou have to concentrate so hard, but when you get out of the car, you鈥檙e just so exhausted. I always […]
Michael Helm, assistant professor of English in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, has published his third novel, Cities of Refuge. His is the author of The Projectionist, which was a Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist, and In the Place of Last Things, a regional Commonwealth Writers鈥 Prize for Best Book. The Globe & […]