Do you have news of recent publications by members? Professional accomplishments or changes? Other milestones? Feel free to email them to info.accute@gmail.com (use subject heading “news of members”).
You’ll recall on National Academic Walkout Day we reposted a piece written by the entirely brilliant Erin Wunker–who also serves as the Contract Academic Staff representative on ACCUTE’s executive–which she originally posted on Hook and Eye. Well, we weren’t the only ones to stand up and take notice. […]
Sue Sorensen of the Department of English at Canadian Mennonite University announces her latest book release. The Collar: Reading Christian Ministry in Fiction, Television, and Film is published by Wipf and Stock. Combining thematic analysis and close readings, The Collar is a wide-ranging study of the many ways—heroic or comic, shrewd or dastardly—Christian […]
Each year at Congress, 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. This year’s winner is Steven Bruhm (Western) for his essay “The Counterfeit Child,” which appeared […]
ACCUTE members will be immeasurably saddened by the passing, on Thursday May 8th, of Renate Eigenbrod, Professor of Aboriginal Literatures and Head of Native Studies at the University of Manitoba. Long-standing member of our association, passionate researcher and teacher of Aboriginal literatures and cultures in Canada, a constant […]
Jennifer Drouin‘s (University of Alabama) monograph Shakespeare in Québec: Nation, Gender, and Adaptation was published by University of Toronto Press in March. The book traces the evolution of discourses of nation and gender in Québec from the Conquest of New France to the present through the lenses of […]
