The Dept. of English mourns the loss of our colleague, Collett Tracey. We extend our sincere condolences to Collett’s family and friends, and to the students who benefited from her passion. An evening of poetry will be planned in her honour later this year. www.tubmanfuneralhomes.com/obituaries/c...

Collett Tracey Obituary Jun 5, 2026 - Tubman Funeral Homes

View Collett Tracey's obituary, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

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Congratulations to Professor Barbara Leckie, who has won a Carleton University Research Achievement Award! Read more here: carleton.ca/english/2026...

Research Achievement Awards - Research and Innovation

The awards were established in 1989 to enhance research quality and recognize research excellence. The recipients’ terms run from May to April after an announcement each spring. Be sure to also view t...

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Congratulations to Professor Jodie Medd, who has won a FASS Teaching Award! carleton.ca/english/2026...

You're invited to the 2026 Marston LaFrance Lecture on March 12! 📆 In this talk, Prof. Siobhain Bly Calkin (@cuinenglish.bsky.social) will discuss two late-medieval tales of European Christian pilgrimage to Jerusalem, exploring how the writers depict Christian Passion relics 🪶 Learn more + RSVP ⬇️

The 2026 Marston LaFrance Lecture - Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences

Passion Relics in Late Medieval Pilgrim Tales: The Agency of Devotional Objects in Contexts of Cultural Dispossession Each year, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences awards the Marston LaFrance Res...

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English student Ayla Sully was recently featured in a FASS News Story. Read more here: carleton.ca/fass/2026/ca...

Carleton English Student Shares Her Co-op Journey - Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences

My name is Ayla, I’m an undergraduate English student at Carleton University, and I’m currently finishing up my three-term Co-op experience. When I first began, I thought I would be working ‘English-s...

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Please click here to read the latest Spotlight on Research, this month is about Professor Jody Mason’s new book, "Books for Development: Canada In the Late Twentieth-Century World". carleton.ca/english/2026...

Spotlight on Research: Professor Jody Mason has published a new book - Department of English Language and Literature

While books are often cast as axiomatically good, Professor Jody Mason’s new book Books for Development: Canada In the Late Twentieth-Century World, argues that this idea can be troubled by revisiting...

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The English Department is pleased to announce the annual Lilian I. Found and George Johnston Poetry Competitions. More information and the submission form can be found by scanning the QR code or visiting our website: carleton.ca/english/life...

Please click here to read our latest Spotlight on Research, this month is about Professor Adam Barrows. carleton.ca/english/2025...

Spotlight on Research: Professor Adam Barrows - Department of English Language and Literature

In the Fall of 2024 Professor Adam Barrows taught a graduate seminar on the topic of madness and time in 20th-century literature. This will be the topic of a book-length project that Professor Barrows...

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Sumac Literary Magazine is now accepting submissions for Issue 4! Please click here for more information or scan the QR code. hhttps://carleton.ca/english/event/winter-2026-sumac-literary-magazine-call-for-submissions/

Please join us in sending our warm and sincere congratulations to Prof. @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social, who was named on the Stanford-Elseveir list of the world’s most-cited scholars (for the second time!). Click here to read more: research.carleton.ca/2025/11/carl...

Professor Adam Barrows was recently interviewed by the Charlatan ahead of his upcoming show, Babette's Feast, at the Gladstone Theatre. Read more here: charlatan.ca/qa-professor...

Q&A: Meet English professor and method actor Adam Barrows - The Charlatan, Carleton's independent newspaper

Adam Barrows is a Carleton University English professor. He is also a method actor, starring in 9th Hour Theatre Company’s 'Babette’s Feast.'

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In preparation for the 2025-2026 Munro-Beattie Lecture on October 15th (tonight!), students Sophie Drache and Erica Raley spoke with lecturer Ivan Coyote about trans relationships, censorship, and the power of storytelling in creating networks of resistance. carleton.ca/fass/2025/re...

Relationships. Mycelium. Human Connection. - Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences

Ivan Coyote Munro Beattie Lecture

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The Department of English warmly invites faculty and graduate students in FASS to the Fall 2025 PhD Speaker Series lecture. We are thrilled to welcome as the speaker Dr. Sally Chivers (Trent University), author of The Silvering Screen: Old Age and Disability in Cinema (UTP, 2011).

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (@carletonfass.bsky.social) and the Department of English invite you to the 2025–26 Munro Beattie Lecture, "And Then This One Time: Sweet Stories for Hard Times", with writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote. Oct. 15 at 7pm at the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre.

Professor Micheline White was featured in a @carletonfass.bsky.social News Story about her recent public lecture on Katherine Parr and Henry VIII at the Marginalia and the Early Modern Women Writer symposium. Read more here: carleton.ca/fass/2025/dr...

Dr. Micheline White Lectures at the National Library of Australia - Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences

Dr. Micheline White (Department of English Language and Literature and College of the Humanities) was invited to give a public lecture on Katherine Parr and Henry VIII. What did Katherine Parr and Hen...

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Professor Stuart Murray has published new articles in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Empathy as Bug: The Rhetoric of MAGA’s “Battle”) and in The Conversation (From ‘God Emperor Trump’ to ‘St. Luigi,’ memes power the politics of feeling). Read more about them here: carleton.ca/english/2025...

Professor Stuart Murray has published two new articles in Rhetoric Society Quarterly and The Conversation

Dr. Stuart Murray has published two new articles in Rhetoric Society Quarterly and The Conversation.  Empathy as Bug: The Rhetoric of MAGA’s “Battle” in Rhetoric Society Quarterly: This essay critique...

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Prof Barbara Leckie has developed a new podcast, CommonS Sense: Reclaiming common sense for a livable future. Dr Leckie and Dr Westheimer explore what counts as common sense through the lens of the commons broadly defined (shared resources, collective action, public conversation). shorturl.at/qIkNC

On August 7, Professor @michelinewhite.bsky.social will be giving a public lecture at the National Library of Australia in Canberra on Katherine Parr and Henry VIII. This is part of a symposium on Marginalia and the Early Modern Women Writer. For more information: www.library.gov.au/whats-on/eve...

Gorgeous books and royal annotations | National Library of Australia (NLA)

What did Katherine Parr and Henry VIII write in their books? Hear Professor Micheline White delve into the marginalia left in their personal books.

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Congrats to @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social for being awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant for a project titled “The Feminization of Publishing Work.” Thanks to this grant, Dr. Brouillette will be able to fund the work of graduate-student research assistants. carleton.ca/english/2025...

Professor Sarah Brouillette awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Brouillette for being awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant for a project titled “The Feminization of Publishing Work.” Thanks to this grant, Dr. Brouillette will be able to fund ...

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Congratulations to Sean Minogue on the publication of his first novel, Terminal Solstice (Turnstone Press, 2025)! Read more here: carleton.ca/english/2025...

Congratulations to Erin Forget on the publication of her first novel, The Unsung Song of a Wren (AOS Publishing, 2025)! Read more here: erinforget.ca/books/

Indulge in a mystery of past lives lived - erinforget.ca

Discover The Unsung Song of a Wren by Erin Forget – a gripping tale of past lives, secrets, and a transformative journey.

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Please click here to read the latest Spotlight on Research, this month is about Doctoral Candidate Sarah Dorward who has published in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada. carleton.ca/english/2025...

Spotlight on Research: Doctoral Candidate Sarah Dorward has published in the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada

Doctoral candidate Sarah Dorward has just published “Embracing ‘Elsewhereness’: May Agnes Fleming and Late Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Authorship” in the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of ...

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English Alum Ben Ladouceur was recently featured in a @carletonfass.bsky.social News Story. Click here to read more: carleton.ca/fass/cu-stor...

Carleton Alum Ben Ladouceur Publishes Debut Novel - Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences

By Emily Putnam Ben Ladouceur, a Canadian Studies and English graduate, has published his first novel, I Remember Lights, a story of queer life in centennial-era Canada. He says the seeds for the stor...

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Please click here to read the latest Spotlight on Research, this month is about Contract Instructor John Coleman who has published a new article in Modern Fiction Studies. carleton.ca/english/2025...

Spotlight on Research: Contract Instructor John Coleman has published a new article in Modern Fiction Studies

Congratulations to Dr. John Coleman for the publication of his new article, “The Business Case for Diversity: Hari Kunzru’s Transmission as Commentary on Racialized Literary Promotions,” which has rec...

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Congrats to Prof Siobhain Bly Calkin, who has been awarded the Marston LaFrance Research Fellowship for 25/26! She will use the fellowship to complete her book manuscript: Narratives of Impassioned Things: Rethinking Relic Agency through Tales of the Lance of Antioch and the Cross of Jerusalem.

The Sumac Literary Magazine Launch Party is on April 9 at 6:30PM! Celebrate the release of Issue 3 with an evening of readings, creativity, and community. Contributors will share their work, and guests can connect over literature and light refreshments. RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/sumac-lite...

The Reading and Q&A with queer/feminist icon Eileen Myles is tomorrow! We hope you can join us for a performance of their work followed by a Q&A in Dunton Tower 2017 from 3:00-4:30 p.m. @carletonfass.bsky.social

Congratulations to Ben Ladouceur (B.A. English ’09 / M.A. English ’12) on the publication of his first novel, I Remember Lights (Book*hug Press, forthcoming April 2025)! Read more here: carleton.ca/english/2025...

Congratulations to English Alum, Ben Ladouceur, who has published his first novel

Congratulations to Ben Ladouceur (B.A. English ’09 / M.A. English ’12) on the publication his first novel, I Remember Lights (Book*hug Press, forthcoming April 2025). An award-winning poet, Ben has tu...

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Congrats to English Grad Matthew James Jones for the launch of his first novel! "A poet, novelist, storyteller and veteran whose novel Predators, Reapers and Deadlier Creatures is available from Double Dagger Press." @carletonfass.bsky.social Read more here: carleton.ca/fass/2025/ca...

Carleton English Grad Matthew James Jones Launches First Novel - Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences

Matthew James Jones is a poet, novelist, storyteller and veteran whose novel Predators, Reapers and Deadlier Creatures is available from Double Dagger Press. Today, Matt writes and teaches in Paris: l...

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The US govt’s attacks on trans/nonbinary lives continue to feed hate globally, including in Canada. CU English reaffirms its care & support for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, including our students, staff, and faculty. We stand in solidarity with you as valued and respected members of our community. ❤