The Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) promotes the study of English language, literatures, and other cultural material in a global context in Canadian colleges and universities. ACCUTE was founded in 1957 and held the first annual conference in 1958.
ACCUTE Membership includes access to the annual conference, travel support for students, contract faculty and underwaged scholars, and a subscription to the scholarly journal ESC: English Studies in Canada.
ACCUTE continues to seek ways to support member communication and engagement. Our quarterly newsletter, The Angle, is a member-driven publication that stimulates discussion and showcases creative work from both established and emerging writers. The Annual General Meeting of 2021 saw the passing of the ACCUTE Equity Statement, the establishment of the Creative Writing Collective, and an updating of the ACCUTE Bylaws. In 2023, ACCUTE elected a new Member-at-Large to represent the BIPOC caucus.
ACCUTE’s annual conference features nationally and internationally recognized scholars and students from a range of periods, topics, and methodologies of English studies. Our programs include sessions on professional and pedagogical concerns, as well as joint sessions with other scholarly associations. This conference takes place at the annual meeting of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences and includes close to 100 scholarly and professional associations.
ACCUTE 2026
Concordia University, Tiohtià:ke (Montreal)
4 – 7 June 2026
ACCUTE is thrilled to announce two of our confirmed plenary speakers for ACCUTE 2026
Michael A. Bucknor – “(De)colonial Hauntings and the Black Sonic Fantastic: Riffing Off Dub Poetry”
Michael A. Bucknor is Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Black Global Studies and Decolonial Practice at the University of Alberta. Formerly, he was Chair of the Department of Literatures in English, Public Orator at the Mona Campus (University of the West Indies), and Chair of the Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS). Awarded the 2018 and 2020 UWI Principal’s Award for Best Research Article, he also received the 2019 Institute of Jamaica’s Gold Musgrave Medal for Eminence in the field of Literature. He currently serves on the editorial boards of several journals and is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of West Indian Literature. He carries out research on the African Diaspora, Austin Clarke, Caribbean-Canadian writing, Black Canadian cultural production, postcolonial literatures and theory, masculinities, sexualities, and popular culture. Widely published, his most recent publication is “‘Leaving Traces’: Decolonial Hauntings and Affective Ecologies,” (Co-authored with Aon Abideen) JWIL (April 2025), and the monograph, Olive Senior, in The Caribbean Biography Series, UWI Press is forthcoming in 2026.
Marcie Frank – “Genre, Situation, Rule: Some Concepts for Literary History?”
Marcie Frank is Professor of English at ConcordIa University. She has published books on gender, theatre, and the development of literary criticism in 17th-century England, Gore Vidal’s career as a public intellectual, and most recently, The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen (Bucknell UP, 2020). Recent essays include “Point of View and Embodiment Revisited” in Eighteenth-century Fiction and “Situation: A Narrative Concept” in Critical Inquiry (Summer 2024), which she co-authored with Kevin Pask and Ned Schantz. The former is part of her current project about narrative point of view in the eighteenth-century novel and the novel of today; the latter emanates from SSHRC-funded team research into the narrative concept of situation. The plenary talk for ACCUTE 2026 builds on the work of the Situation team and takes it into some directions that members may neither recognize nor approve.
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- Review the ACCUTE Equity Statement.
- Explore our calls for papers, job advertisements, and much more in our blog, English Matters.
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- Get to know ACCUTE 2025 presenters and their research with our #PresentingACCUTE interview series.
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Contact
Please email ACCUTE at info.accute@gmail.com with your questions, comments, and submissions queries.
ACCUTE 2025 is generously sponsored by
Athabasca University Press – Gold Sponsor
University of Alberta Press – Gold Sponsor
Wilfrid Laurier University Press – Gold Sponsor
McGill-Queen’s University Press – Gold Sponsor
Wolsak & Wynn – Silver Sponsor
Inanna Publications & Education, Inc. – Silver Sponsor
Queen’s University – Silver Sponsor
Literary Review of Canada – Silver Sponsor
University of Calgary Press – Silver Sponsor
Playwrights Canada Press – Bronze Sponsor
Studies in Canadian Literature – Bronze Sponsor
University of Mississippi – Bronze Sponsor
University of Toronto Press – Bronze Sponsor
University of Northern British Columbia – Bronze Sponsor
McMaster University – Bronze Sponsor
Coach House Books – Bronze Sponsor
