We’ve just witnessed the birth of a new advocacy website for the humanities in Canada: http://www.whydoesitmatter.ca/ This blog emerged out of a TransCanada Institute Think Tank project on emerging scholars, which ACCUTE blogged about on April 16th: http://accute.ca/2013/04/16/the-76/ And it’s hard to imagine a more timely intervention into […]
Call for Submissions The peer-reviewed journal Studies in American Jewish Literature: A Journal of Literary Criticism and Theory is devoting a special issue to the subject of Canadian Jewish writing. Submissions are invited that consider the poetry, prose, drama, life writing, and creative non-fiction of Canadian Jewish writers. […]
Auto/biography in Transit May 29-June 1, 2014 at the Banff Centre, Canada The IABA Canada conference team welcomes submissions for the ninth IABA conference, to be held at the Banff Centre in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. This conference will focus on the themes of transit and transition […]
Each year at the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences’ Congress, ACCUTE awards the F.E.L. Priestley Prize for the best essay to appear in the association’s scholarly journal English Studies in Canada (ESC) in the previous year. The Prize is adjudicated by a jury of three, chaired by a […]
QUEEN’S NATIONAL SCHOLAR Departments of English Language and Literature, Drama, and Languages, Literatures and Cultures Queen’s University INDIGENOUS LITERATURES AND LANGUAGES The Department of English Language and Literature, the Department of Drama, and the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Queen’s University jointly invite applications from outstanding […]
