2025

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Congratulations to Margaret Finlay on the publication of her first article!  Margaret pursued a first-class Honours English degree at Acadia before going on to the University of York (UK) for a Master’s in Medieval Studies; Margaret is now questing after a medieval literature PhD at the University of Groningen. Her article, ‘“A noble knyght and a myghty man”: Gareth as Disruptive Presence and Absence in Malory’s Morte Darthur’, is a revised version of her 2023 Tolhurst Lecture, a plenary lecture delivered by an early career scholar at the St. Louis Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies; it appears in Arthuriana, vol. 34, no. 4, and is a compelling reassessment of Gareth’s thematic centrality to Malory’s Morte and (contrary to a good many leading scholars) the ways in which Malory’s presentation of the character of Gareth bespeaks his artistry and originality.

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Six Acadia English students were selected to present their research or creative writing at the Annual Atlantic Undergraduate English Conference at UNB Fredericton on 14-16 March. Nico Hernando, Nick Lundrigan, Alexa Wilcox, Sophie Ashton, Chyler Webb, and Vivien Kelly did a fantastic job of representing the stellar undergraduate work being undertaken at Acadia. They also won the trivia competition as the Acadia A+ Team! The faculty organizer was new professor Tom Laughlin. Professor Laura Robinson also gave the academic keynote that opened the conference, so Acadia English was well represented.