Dept. of English news

Are you submitting a proposal for your Honours Essay this term? If so, come along to this information session and learn what makes a successful Honours Essay proposal. Topics covered include: The format of the proposal What the committee is looking for How to craft your proposal Advice from former Honours students

Fall applications to ENGL434: Independent Theatre Project and ENGL495: Individual Reading Course are due on 12 September.

Are you Graduating in FALL 2012 or WINTER 2013 ENGLISH Majors/Minors/Honours: We need your audit sheets!

This award provides an opportunity for undergraduate students in the Department of English to attend plays in performance at a Canadian venue as an adjunct to course work at McGill.

As of December 28th, McGill’s license of Virus Barrier X will expire. Replacing it is Trend Micro’s Smart Surfing for Mac. Its features include antivirus, antispyware and web threat protection; additionally, it has built in parental controls, a spam blocker and a two-way firewall.

The Shakespeare and Performance Research Team, Department of English, McGill University, seeks a postdoctoral fellow to join a research program (2012-2016) entitled, “Shakespeare and the Play of Story.”

This May, study Renaissance Literature and Painting in Florence with the course, ENGL 347: Great Writings of Europe 1 - Passions of the Renaissance (taught in English).

Lots of great events will be happening in and around McGill's Department of English this fall. Read the full schedule to find out more!

Kathleen Winter, author of Annabel, will be the inaugural Mordecai Richler Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at McGill in the winter semester 2012.

According to the highly regarded QS university rankings, the Department of English at McGill ranks 12th world-wide.

Amy Scott’s PhD dissertation, “Finding Faith between Infidelities: Historiography as Mourning in Shakespeare,” has won the McGill Arts Insights Dissertation Award, presented annually to the PhD dissertation judged the best among all theses written in the Faculty of Arts.

The Faculty of Arts seeks to make an award ($6,200) to an Arts graduate student with strong interests and expertise in Digital Humanities.

The Department of English seeks to appoint a Faculty Lecturer in Canadian Literature for 2011-12.

Students should take note of PLAI 400 (Winter 2012): Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities.

Applications for Honours in English Literature must be submitted to the English Dept office by 29 April 2011.