Stories of Home: An Update

In the Fall 2021 Alchemy edition, we introduced a new project set up by a team from the English as a Second Language (ESL) department: Nataly Shaheen, Claudia Daniela Cirip, Sara Cordeiro Alexandre, Suzanne Soares, and Diana Catargiu…. Read More

Home is where I am

By Stephanie Samboo Note: This piece is part of my own journey on decolonizing of self as I re-member. I hope it generates conversations about how it feels to live with a double consciousness- to try to fit… Read More

Alya Somar: CanLit Makes Me Nervous

Nonfiction by CW&P Student Alya Somar The first time I walked into my ‘Fundamentals of Publishing’ class, my professor said that the publishing industry was dominated by white women. My mind immediately went back to my program orientation,… Read More

Daniel Meehan: By the Lakeshore

Fiction by CW&P Student Daniel Meehan             When I was a young boy, and the ducks still bobbed along the little teeming lake of our backwater home, and the fish dove deep by the breast-high shoal out in… Read More

Saidah Vassell: Jump the Broom

Fiction by CW&P Student Saidah Vassell In that moment, I don’t just see a broom. I see my life as it flashes before my eyes. I see myself meeting her for the very first time. The way a… Read More

Professor Selina Tombs Coaches and Competes!

Psychology professor Selina Tombs’s passion for figure skating is well-known around FHASS. But you may not know that in 2020, Selina travelled to Innsbruck, Austria to compete in the Winter World Masters Games. She won a silver medal… Read More

FHASS Welcomes Dalia Hanna!

Dr. Dalia Hanna has over 25 years of experience in both business and academic settings. She comes to us from The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education at Ryerson University in the role of Program Director for… Read More

From the Dean’s Office

Warmest greetings, colleagues! My heart is full as I contemplate how much we have accomplished this past year, together. Despite another whirlwind year filled with unpredictability and uncertainty, innovation and creativity continue to thrive in the Faculty of Humanities… Read More

CW&P Welcomes 2021-2022 Writer-in-Residence Adam Pottle!

The Fall 2021 semester saw FHASS and the Honours Bachelor of Creative Writing & Publishing welcome multi-hyphenate artist Adam Pottle as our writer-in-residence. In addition to holding a PhD in English, Adam is a poet, novelist, and librettist,… Read More

Welcome to the Fall 2021 Issue of Alchemy!