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
Faye Guenther on Archives, Memoir, and Queer Histories
Professor Faye Guenther‘s latest academic article has been published in a recent issue of Australian Feminist Studies (32, 2017). Read the abstract below, and click here to access the full text of the article. Congratulations, Faye! In… Read More
Claire Meldrum is on the case
Claire Meldrum has enjoyed two recent publishing successes. Her article, “Dressing Up: Social Climbing, Criminality and Fashion in Anna Katharine Green’s “Behind Closed Doors” was published in the Spring 2018 issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection (36.1, 2018). She… Read More
Michelle Szabo Publishes New Book: Food, Masculinities, and Home
After four years of author wrangling, peer review solicitation, writing, editing and re-editing, FHASS Professor Michelle Szabo’s book collaboration, Food, Masculinities and Home: Interdisciplinary Perspectives has been published (Bloomsbury 2017). The academic volume, co-edited and introduced by Michelle, brings… Read More
Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang Can’t Stop!
In addition to welcoming students into the Creative Writing & Publishing program this past fall, Professor Sarah Tsiang has been busy to say the least! She recently launched two new children’s books—Sugar and Snails in March and Toesy… Read More
Community and Creativity: Sheridan Newcomer Access Project is up and running
Prof. Peter Grevstad‘s students in SOCS23314GD (Community and Creativity) have created a website for their initiative, #SNAP, the Sheridan Newcomer Access Project. Peter reports that the website is now up and running, and it offers profiles, like this… Read More
