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ACCUTE members will be saddened by the death, on July 20th, 2013, of one of our association’s most generative participants. Beloved professor of English at the University of Alberta, R.D. McMaster served as ACCUTE President from 1972-74 and Editor of ESC: English Studies in Canada from 1985-89. He […]
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 […]
Heather Latimer’s (UBC) Reproductive Acts: Sexual Politics in North American Fiction and Film will be published on June 1, 2013, with McGill-Queen’s UP. “In Reproductive Acts, Heather Latimer investigates what contemporary fiction and film can tell us about the divisive nature of these politics, and demonstrates how fictional representations of reproduction […]
Dominick Grace (Brescia University College) and Eric Hoffman have just published a collection of interviews with the renowned, and controversial, graphic novelist Dave Sim. Dave Sim: Conversations (University P of Mississippi) fleshes out the ideas of the creator of Cerebus, an independent comic that ran for 300 issues, ending in […]
Morgan Rooney (Carleton U) has just published a monograph examining how debates about history during the French Revolution changed the English novel. The French Revolution Debate and the British Novel, 1790-1814 (Bucknell UP) connects the fiction-writing of authors such as Charles Walker, Robert Bisset, Jane West, Charlotte Smith, Jane […]
