Naben Ruthnum’s Video Blog Now Available!

The CW&P 2022-23 Writer-in-Residence, Naben Ruthnum, has been hard at work, meeting with students and staff for consultations, visiting classes, and running events like the 2023 Sheridan Reads visit with Waubgeshig Rice and the Food, Writing, and Identity… Read More
Professor Laura Trethewey Publishes Second Book

This coming July, creative nonfiction professor Laura Trethewey will publish her second book, The Deepest Map: The Amazing Global Race to Chart the World’s Oceans with Goose Lane Editions. This dramatic and action-packed story of the last mysterious place on earth—the world’s seafloor—documents the… Read More
wererabbit: Professor Paul Vermeersch’s new musical alter ego

Creative Writing & Publishing professor Paul Vermeersch is already well-known in literary circles as a poet and literary editor, but the author of seven poetry collections doesn’t limit his creative output to the written word. In addition… Read More
FHASS Faculty Deliver Creativity and Innovation to Local High School Teachers

As part of a new bilateral partnership between the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHASS) and the Halton District School Board (HDSB), the FHASS creativity team has recently collaborated with T.A. Blakelock High School for a pair… Read More
Meet Professor Kasey Dunn, Professor of Creativity and Innovation!

I am so excited to be a part of FHASS at Sheridan College! Prior to this role, I have led innovation and entrepreneurship programming in a variety of contexts including women’s accelerators, arts incubators, University of Toronto and… Read More
Meet Professor Tom Nittoly (ESL/TESOL)

Tom Nittoly works at Sheridan College as both an ESL Professor and the CELTA Main Course Tutor for the TESOL Plus Program. He began his teaching journey in 2008, working in the private sector teaching ESL to students… Read More
Professor Hee-Seung Kang Presents on TESOL and COIL

FHASS Professor Hee-Seung Kang (ESL & TESOL) presented her research in Innovations in Education Conference 2022 (McMaster University). The title of her presentation was “Reimagining ESL Teacher Education: Integrating Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) into TESOL Curriculum.” Drawing on sociocultural… Read More
Michelle Szabo’s New Course Develops Emotional Wellness

You meditate in class?? This Winter 2023 term, FHASS Professor Michelle Szabo is thrilled to be launching the first iteration of a new trauma-informed, social and emotional wellness course in FHASS called The Wisdom of Connection: Wellness, Community… Read More
Professor Anna Boshnakova Presents Research in Madrid

Dr. Anna Boshnakova was invited to present the preliminary results of her project “Hermeneutics of music-related visual narratives on 5th c. B.C.E. Greek vases. The So-Called Non-Sense Inscriptions in a Musical Context: Identification, Analysis, and Interpretation” at the… Read More
Professor Rory Sommers Presents Research on Active Interviewing

During June of last year, Professor Rory Sommers traveled to St. John’s Newfoundland to present a paper at the 2022 Qualitatives Conference titled “Negotiating Boundaries in Active Interviewing: Engaging with Ascribed and Achieved Positionalities”. Based on data collected… Read More