What's Happening
RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES
Our next departmental research seminar takes place on Friday, 19 March at 4:00 in Buchanan Tower 599. This week's presentation is by Mary Chapman, whose talk is entitled "Sui Sin Far/Edith Eaton: Transnational Author and Stunt-Girl Journalist." The Research Seminar series is open to all faculty and graduate students in the department.
FACULTY
MARGERY FEE RECEIVES SHASTRI INSITUTE AWARD
The Department of English is pleased to announce that Margery Fee has won one of two annual awards granted by the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute to a senior Canadian scholar. Professor Fee will travel to India this Spring to speak at various universities, including the University of Delhi and the Jawaharlal Nehru University. The Shastri Institute’s Canadian Visiting Lectureship helps to enhance the understanding of Canada in India.
ALUMNI NEWS
UBC English alumna Siobhan Carroll has recently been appointed to a tenure-track assistant professorship in the Department of English at the University of Delaware. Siobhan, who graduated with a first-class Honours B.A. in 2001, won the English Honours Medal and the English Honours Prize as well as many other awards during her years at UBC. She received her Ph.D. in 2009 from Indiana University. Her dissertation, "The Blank Spaces of the Earth: Atypical Space in the Romantic Century, 1750-1850," was directed by Deidre Lynch and Nicholas Williams.
IN NEWS AND REVIEWS
John Allemang, in "This is the torch that Hitler lit" (Globe and Mail, 24 October 2009), cites Ira Nadel based on Nadel's research on the techniques filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl used to aestheticize the Nazi cause. In her essay "What has shaped the Class of 2013?" (UBC Reports, September 2009), Gisèle Baxter introduces the first-year students of 2009. The Johns-Hopkins journal The Lion and the Unicorn has named Bill New's verse-novel The Year I Was Grounded (Vancouver: Tradewind Books, 2008) one of its two "honor books" in connection with its 2009 Award for Excellence in North American Poetry.