The Department of English is delighted to announce Professor Ricardo Wilson as the 2025-2026 Mordecai Richler Writer-in-Residence.
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Published on: 22 Dec 2025
Congratulations to Professor Camille Owens!
Professor Owens received an honorable mention from the Modern Language Association of America for her book Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America.
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Published on: 11 Dec 2025
Professor Sandeep Banerjee was a guest in the CBC Ideas episode "How this 19th-century Indian feminist flipped the colonial travelogue on its head."
Listen to the episode
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Published on: 24 Nov 2025
Congratulations to Professor Alexander Manshel for being awarded The Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize!
2026 Perkins Prize Citation:
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Published on: 3 Nov 2025
Congratulations to Professor Nathalie Cooke on her election as a Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada!
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Published on: 19 Sep 2025
Tastes and Traditions: A Journey Through Menu History by Professor Nathalie Cooke
Published by Reaktion Books
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Published on: 19 Aug 2025
Zine-making 101: Feminist pedagogy through creative assessments
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Published on: 22 Apr 2025
Associate Professor Alexander Manshel's publication Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon (Columbia University Press, 2023) has been released as an audiobook by University Press Audiobooks.
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Published on: 22 Apr 2025
English PhD candidate, Iris Pintiuta, created Exposure, Montreal's first trans film festival. The festival aims to promote inclusive representation for trans people, as well as create programs and events that advance trans acceptance.
'“Too often, queer and trans scholarship doesn’t make it back to the people it speaks about. I wanted to change that – I wanted to build a bridge between academic knowledge and public access and use what I was learning to support my community, not just advance my own career.”'
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Published on: 3 Apr 2025
- The MONA ADILMAN PRIZE IN POETRY, for one student, estimated value $500, or for two students, estimated value $250, is open to undergraduate or graduate students registered in the Faculty of Arts for the best poem or group of poems relating to ecological or environmental concerns.
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Published on: 6 Mar 2025
Jay Ritchie, PhD Candidate in the Department of English, spoke to the Faculty of Arts about his newest collection of poems 𝘓𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘴, shortlisted for the Quebec Writers’ Federation A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry.
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Published on: 3 Feb 2025
The Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Burney Society of North America have partnered to establish a new fellowship named after Distinguished James McGill Professor Emeritus, Burney editor, long-time member, and past President of CSECS, Peter Sabor.
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Published on: 6 Jan 2025
Congratulations to Kizziah Burton, the winner of the Montreal International Poetry Prize 2024. Her poem, “Portrait of Me Incensing the Mushrooms Channelling Demeter,” has been awarded the $20,000 prize. Read the poem here.
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Published on: 21 Nov 2024
Assistant Professor Camille Owens spoke about her latest book Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America for the Faculty of Arts' Faculty Publication Spotlight!
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Published on: 19 Nov 2024
The jury has done its work, the finalists are being announced, and the next anthology is taking shape. READ THE POEMS that are in the running for the Montreal Prize 2024! The one winning poem, to be announced soon, will earn the author $20,000.
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Published on: 3 Oct 2024
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