Department of English

Congratulations to Adriana Wisniewska and Claudia Laugalys, students in Prof. Sean Moreland's ENG 2118: Comics and Graphic Novels, who were selected as finalists for the Ottawa Geek Market Arts Scholarship creative writing awards. Special congratulations to Adriana, who won the $1000 prize for the horror category.

Aida Hudson, "Imaginative Geography in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”

“Using a geo-critical lens on Wonderland’s imaginative geography and its imperialistic context,” Aïda notes, “I shall explore ‘Wonderland’s’ influence on Alice’s sense of self.”

Christa Zeller-Thomas Excellence in ENGLISH LITERATURE prize

Value: $2000

Submit your essay!!

This new annual prize is for the best undergraduate essay on any aspect of literature or culture submitted for an English course.  Essays submitted to courses in the Spring/Summer 2015, the Fall 2015 or the Winter 2016 terms are eligible.

Deadline: May 1, 2016

Procedure: Submit the graded paper plus one unrevised cleancopy to your professor or to the Chair of the Department of English (or the English Department Secretary at MHN 338).

Amal El-Mohtar, a part-time creative writing instructor in the Department of English, has been nominated for a Nebula award, one of the most prestigious prizes in the Science Fiction world. Amal's story, Madeleine, is among the 6 nominees in the short story category. Amal discusses the story in the recent edition of Lightspeed magazine.

Sean Moreland, "Caitlin R. Kiernan, Sadomodernism and Queer Time.”

About his presentation, Sean writes:  “I will discuss the transformative intersection between queerness and the weird that occurs in the fictions of contemporary American writer Caitlin R. Kiernan, focusing especially on her explorations of the relationship between temporality and causality, along with narrative and subjectivity. While my emphasis will fall mainly on her award-winning 2012 novel The Drowning Girl, I shall not only link this work to her earlier novels, but also to her work in comics, including the series The Dreaming (a spin-off from Neil Gaiman’s Sandman which she scripted briefly in the late 1990s), and her ongoing series Alabaster.”