The Department of English in the College of Arts & Science, University of Saskatchewan invites applications for a four-year appointment in Aboriginal literatures and storytelling in Canada at the Assistant Professor level, to begin July 1, 2013. The successful candidate will teach existing classes in the area of […]
Assistant Professor: Indigenous Literatures and Storytelling in Canada The Department of English in the College of Arts & Science, University of Saskatchewan invites applications for a four-year appointment in Aboriginal literatures and storytelling in Canada at the Assistant Professor level, to begin July 1, 2013. The successful candidate […]
Here’s the blurb for English Professor Ajay Heble’s public lecture at McMaster University, January 24th, 2013. As a teacher of literature, I’m often called upon to account for what I do: just why do I “profess” literature, why does a study of literary texts matter? In this talk, […]
We all have our histories for “The Department of English,” and mine pre-dates that of Georgia Institute of Technology’s Richard Utz. Utz thinks English as a formal discipline of study begins in mid-nineteenth-century continental Europe. I am persuaded by Gauri Viswanathan’s finding, in Masks of Conquest, that English Studies […]
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR A WRITER–IN-RESIDENCE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH 2013-2014 A 14-week Writer-in-Residence appointment in the Department of English will be awarded to a creative writer in the Fall 2013 or Winter 2014 term. The writer-in-residence will teach a weekly creative writing workshop and […]
