Claire Meldrum on the Research Trail
Prof. Claire Meldrum has recently won two research fellowships in support of her current biography project about nineteenth century detective fiction writer Anna Katharine Green. She received the 2018 Weston A. Cate Fellowship from the Vermont Historical Society and a Harry Ransom… Read More
Sarah Sinclair nominated for a 3M National Teaching Fellowship
FHASS’s own Prof. Sarah Sinclair (Communications and Literary Studies) was recently nominated for a prestigious 3M National Teaching Fellowship, “Canada’s most prestigious recognition of excellence in educational leadership and teaching at the university and college level.” The nomination… Read More
Community Garden a blooming success!
FHASS farmers Karen MacDonald and Andrew Staples were part of last year’s Sheridan Community Garden at the Trafalgar campus. Learn more about this initiative here, and check out this handful from last fall’s harvest!
Paul Vermeersch embodies the &; Wins everything!
Prof. Paul Vermeersch (Creative Writing & Publishing) has had quite a year. On top of welcoming this year’s incoming class of Creative Writing & Publishing students, he published three poems in the Mexican journal Periodico de Poesia, translated… Read More
Creative Writing & Publishing students launch Savant-Garde
Not even a year into the curriculum, a group of ambitious and energetic students in FHASS’s new Honours Bachelor of Creative Writing & Publishing have launched their own online digital publishing venture. You can check out Savant-Garde: An… Read More
Voices of South Asia
Voices of South Asia was held last May in honour of South Asian Heritage Month. It included such speakers as Brampton Mayor Linda Jeffrey, Dr. Alok Mukherjee, CBC journalist Piya Chattopadhyay, Dr. Vicki Bismilla, and internationally-acclaimed tabla player… Read More
Thea Lim’s new novel reviewed!
Congratulations to Prof. Thea Lim (Creative Writing) on the upcoming publication of her novel, An Ocean of Minutes (Viking/Touchstone). Check out an early glowing review of this highly anticipated novel from Kirkus Reviews here, and be sure to… Read More
Hee-Seung Kang on Student Responses to Teacher Feedback
Prof. Hee-Seung Kang (ESL) recently co-published an article about student responses to teacher feedback in the Journal of Response to Writing. You can read the abstract below, or skip straight to the full article here. Congratulations, Hee-Seung! This… Read More
FHASS joins the SRCAs!
The brilliant faculty in FHASS have been inordinately successful at winning SRCA funding since the program’s launch last year; the trend continues as we congratulate recent recipients Michelle Szabo and Danielle Freitas on their successful project proposals (below)…. Read More
Dr. Sommers goes to Vegas!
In February of 2018, Prof. Rory Sommers presented at the 30th annual Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Titled “Probing, Provoking and “Saving Face”: Navigating the Power-Resistance Dynamic of Active Interviewing,” his presentation explored the challenges… Read More
