A celebration of Indian Writing
7:00 PM, Monday May 2nd 303 Paterson Hall, Carleton University A Blue Metropolis Event Presented by Carleton University and the Ottawa Writers Festival Meena Kandasamy Meena Kandasamy (b.1984)... More
Archives: English
Hollywood comes calling for English grad’s circus
By Nicole Findlay This spring the circus will alight in theatres across North America when Sara Gruen’s vision of the big tent spectacles of yesteryear will be made into a film. Reese Witherspoon... More
The chatterbox’s legacy
By Nicole Findlay For the better part of three years, Donald Beecher has been held captive by a sixteenth-century chatterbox. Little is known about Straparola, or chatterbox in Italian, other than in... More
Paul Keen receives 2011 Research Achievement Award
Paul Keen says you might be surprised what you can find out by reading 18th century literature. And he’s about to tell all in a new anthology. “This collection will offer a groundbreaking account... More
Adesanmi speaks to African journal
African Writing Magazine On-line has published an interview with Pius Adesanmi, professor of English and winner of the Penguin Prize for African Writing. In the Militant Intellection Complex,... More
Armand Garnet Ruffo’s Award-winning Movie ‘A Windigo Tale’ wins Best Picture
Carleton Professor Armand Garnet Ruffo’s film A Windigo Tale won a bevy of awards at the 2010 American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco on November 13. The film, which deals with the... More
A Windigo Tale to close international film festival
The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival recently announced it will close this year’s film festival with A Windigo Tale. The directorial debut of Ojibway poet Armand Garnet Ruffo, A Windigo... More
FASS researcher awarded Leverhulme Trust
This January, Sarah Brouillette, an associate professor in the Department of English, will begin research at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh, Scotland. During her 10-month term, she will work... More
Adesanmi awarded inaugural Penguin Prize
Pius Adesanmi, professor of English, has won the inaugural Penguin Prize for African Writing in the non-fiction category. The award seeks to highlight diverse writing talent on the African continent... More
Exploring the roots of Christian Zionism
by Nicole Findlay Travis DeCook, an assistant professor of English, is researching the impact of the Protestant Reformation on contemporary Christian theologies and their role in political relations.... More