2023

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Congratulations to Lindsay Godbout on the successful defence of her thesis, "'When a door closes, a window opens... or something like that': Dontnod's Life Is Strange as an Evolution of the Bildungsroman Prescription of Choice and Social Conformity" on December 6!

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The Berry Pickers, a novel by Associate Professor in the Department of English and Theatre, Amanda Peters, has been getting some attention in both Canada and the United States.

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Authors@Acadia presents a reading from poet Ben Gallagher, Tuesday, October 17th at 4 pm.

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K.S. Whetter just received a modest SSHRC Institutional Grant from Acadia for work on a classroom edition of Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur [sic].

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AMANDA PETERS is a writer of Mi’kmaq and settler ancestry. Her work has appeared in the Antigonish Review, Grain Magazine, the Alaska Quarterly Review, the Dalhousie Review and Filling Station Magazine. She is the winner of the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Unpublished Prose and a participant in the 2021 Writers’ Trust Rising Stars program. A graduate of the Master of Fine Arts Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Amanda Peters has just joined the faculty of the Department of English and Theatre at Acadia and will be reading from her debut novel The Berry Pickers (Harper Collins 2023).               

4 pm Thursday, September 21
Acadia Art Gallery

Hosted by the Department of English and Theatre

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Kait Pinder has received a Harrison McCain Emerging Scholar Award for “Feminism and Canadian Literature,” a book that she is co-authoring with Andrea Beverley (Mount Allison University). Part of Routledge’s introduction to Canadian literature series, this book will introduce students to the historical contexts, theoretical approaches, and multiple genres of feminist writing in Canada. While much of the historical scholarship on Canadian feminisms centers white women, feminisms in Canada have always been undertaken from multiple perspectives and lived experiences. Taking an intersectional approach, the book emphasizes the plurality of feminisms in which writers have participated over the last two centuries and underlines the connections between literature and activism, thus also illuminating art’s impact in and response to the real world.  

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Congratulations to Claire Kim on receiving the Bronze Medal in English!

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Congratulations to Spencer Nadeau, recipient of the Acadia Outstanding Masters Research Award for the Faculty of Arts.

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Congratulations to Claire Kim for receiving the English Honours Thesis Prize!

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Congratulations to honours student Emily Rafuse for receiving an Honours Summer Research Award (HSRA)!

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Congratulations to Sadia Tasneem on her successful defence of her thesis, "Telling Our Stories: The Scripted Lives of Women in Voyage in the Dark, The Penelopiad, and True Story, on April 20!

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Congratulations to Diane Grant, who is a Top 25 Finalist in the SSHRC Storytellers Competition this year.

You can watch Diane's video about her MA thesis, "A Diamond Seeker's Legacy: Stolen Voices in Beyond the High Savannahs" here:                                  Storytellers Gallery

 

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Four of our students recently presented their work at the 2023 Annual Atlantic Undergraduate English Conference at Mt. Allison university in Sackville, New Brunswick.  This annual conference is a chance for literature students from across the Maritimes to share their academic and creative work and to connect with peers from across the Atlantic provinces. This year, Acadia was represented by Claire Kim and Gwen Williams, who presented scholarly papers, and by Angel Percentie and Lukas Saklofske, who presented creative writing. Their excellent presentations, professional maturity, and participatory enthusiasm epitomized the undergraduate excellence of Acadia's English students.  Their attendance at the AAUEC was generously supported by the Department of English and Theatre, The Dean of Arts, Acadia's Vice President Academic, the Office of Research and Graduate Studies, and the ASU!

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It is with sadness we announce the passing of Dr. Alan Roger Young, Professor Emeritus of English at Acadia University, on Feb. 14, 2023.  Please read his full obituary here:

https://www.saltwire.com/halifax/obituaries/alan-roger-young-84251/