ACCUTE Statement on Bystander Intervention
As a result of conversations with a number of our members across the country at all stages of the profession over the past three months, the ACCUTE executive concluded that we needed to issue a follow-up to Past President Manina Jones’ thoughtful January 2018 statement regarding sexual harassment […]
Let’s Commit Curiosity
Thank you to Jason Haslam, Chair of the Department of English at Dalhousie University (and ACCUTE past president) for responding so eloquently and forcefully to Margaret Wente’s recent column about Dalhousie and English literature studies in Canada more broadly. Curiosity matters and ACCUTE supports our colleagues at Dalhousie and […]
The 2018 F. E. L. Priestley Prize
The F. E. L. Priestley Prize Each year at the Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, ACCUTE announces the winner of the F. E. L. Priestley Prize, which recognizes and acknowledges the best essay published in our scholarly journal English Studies in Canada over the past year. […]
Tell Yourself a Different Story: An Essay on Surviving the Job Market
In this guest blog, Dr. Jeffrey Aaron Weingarten (Fanshawe College) considers his path from graduate school to the job market, musing on the stories we tell ourselves through such experiences and how those stories can change in fruitful and unexpected ways. The first story I told myself about my […]
