Graduate English Society Conference Invite
Save the date! The Graduate English Society invites you to their inaugural graduate conference: "Escape: Moving Away, Moving Towards, Moving Within." The conference will…
Grad Students/Faculty Present at ACCUTE 2022
Many of our grad students and faculty organized panels and presented at this year's ACCUTE conference. To learn more about their research, panels, and…
Doctoral Student Owen Kane Receives Congress Graduate Merit Award
The sincerest of congratulations to doctoral candidate Owen Kane who has received the Congress Graduate Merit Award! Nominated by member scholarly associations of the…
New Social Media Series: Faculty-Student Collaboration
The Department of English is delighted to announce a social media series on student & faculty collaborations in the department. Series #1 is entitled…
Dr May's CWRI 272 and WRIT 290 Students Publish Anthology
Congratulations to Dr May's CWRI 272 and WRIT 290 students on the publication of their final projects in A Bend in the Sky: An…
Introducing: the Carolyn Smart Writer's Residency
Introducing, the Carolyn Smart Writer's Residency! For decades, Professor Smart dedicated her efforts to help the next generation of Canadian writers. Her former students…
Dr. Sam McKegney Nominated
We here at the English Department are excited to announce that our Department head Dr. Sam McKegney's monograph "Carrying the Burden of Peace: Reimagining…
Doctoral Candidate Suyin Olguin Featured on Grad Chat
This week on Grad Chat, English Doctoral Candidate Suyin Olguin was interviewed! Suyin discussed how school has changed for her, how her aspirations have…
PhD Candidate Molly Labenski featured on CBC Radio One
PhD Candidate Molly Labenski is going to be featured on CBC Radio One's series, "Ideas From the Trenches" which features the work of Canadian…
The Department Welcomes New Faculty Member, Dr. Ronjaunee Chatterjee
The Department of English is delighted to announce its newest faculty member, Dr. Ronjaunee Chatterjee! Dr. Chatterjee's expertise in nineteenth-century literature and culture, critical…
Two English Professors Working with Black Faculty & Staff Caucus
"Community. Connection. Understanding. Progress. These words serve as the building blocks for a group of Queen’s faculty and staff members seeking to infuse the…
GES announces Graduate Conference in Literature
The Graduate English Society is delighted to announce the Queen's Graduate Conference in Literature, taking place virtually on May 27, 2022. Proposals are due…
Exhibition Launched by Dr. Cameron and Alicia Alves
Be sure to check out the work of Dr. Brooke Cameron and doctoral candidate Alicia Alves, featured at W.D. Jordan Library until March 4th…
New Black Studies Scholars Named
Queen's University has welcomed seven new faculty members to the black studies program, including Dr. Juliane Okot Bitek, who is also cross appointed in…
English Faculty Named Classroom Champions for Mental Health
The Department of English is delighted to announce that two of our faculty members--Dr. Brooke Cameron and Dr. Angela Facundo--have been nominated as Classroom…
The Lamp Extends Deadline
The Lamp Literary Journal out of Queen's has extended their call for papers for their upcoming Volume 12. The board of The Lamp is…
Writer in Residence 2022
We are delighted to welcome our 2022 Writer in Residence, Omar El Akkad. Omar is an alumni of our creative writing program and the…
Dr. Sam McKegney interviews Giller Prize Winner Omar El Akkad
On January 10th, 2022, the Scotiabank Giller Prize hosted a conversation with Dr. Sam McKegney, the head of the Department of English, and Giller…
Graduate Inclusivity Fellows Named
Queen's English PhD Candidates named SGS Graduate Inclusivity Fellows
ENGL PhD Candidate Collaborates with Adam Matthews Digital
Emma McTavish is a fourth year PhD candidate here at the Queen's University English Department.
Prof. Gabrielle McIntire Interviewed
An interview with Gabrielle McIntire, professor in the Department of English at Queen's and editor of The Cambridge Companion to The Waste Land, about T.S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land.
Trio of distinguished women scholars set to retire
Profs. Maggie Berg, Shelley King and Patricia Rae dedicated careers to exceptional teaching and research.
Congratulations Teaching Award Winners!
English Department Colleagues Honoured at the Celebration of Teaching on March 24
Black Studies Summer Seminar - Call for Applications
The Black Studies Summer Seminar is a one-weeklong research-intensive seminar engaged with various themes in or connected to Black studies hosted by the University of Toronto Scarborough and Queen’s University.
Robert Morrison's The Regency Years
The Netflix series 'Bridgerton' has sparked new interest in the Regency era. According to Rolling Stone's Sage Anderson, Queen's University's, Department of English professor, Robert Morrison's "dynamic style, as well as quotes from letters and diaries, will teach you all about how this period shaped the world we know today."
Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize - Armand Ruffo
Armand Ruffo, on being awarded the 2020 Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize.
English Department Student Council
The English DSC Council is pleased to announce the launch of our new interactive website, queensenglishdsc.com.
Chris Gilmore, Artsci'11
Queen's English alum Chris Gilmore has just released his first short story collection, Nobodies (Now or Never Publishing). Congratulations, Chris! Here's what a couple of accomplished writers have to say about it:
Margaret Pappano: Recipient of Prestigious David Bevington Award
Margaret Aziza Pappano, Associate Professor in the Department of English, and Nicole R. Rice have been awarded the David Bevington Award for Best New…
Armand Ruffo Awarded Prestigious Life Membership
Armand Ruffo, Associate Professor and Queen’s National Scholar, was honoured last week by the League of Canadian Poets with a prestigious Life Membership Award…
Leah Knight, PhD'05, BSLS Prize Winner
Graduate alum Leah Knight, currently Associate Professor at Brock University, has won the British Society for Literature and Science book prize for her book…
