Department of English, Dalhousie U
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Founded in 1865, Dalhousie’s Department of English offers undergraduate programs in English Studies and Creative Writing, as well as MA and PhD degrees. https://www.dal.ca/faculty/arts/english.html
This week in our speaker series, Dr. Asha Jeffers will present “Writing the Past and Present,” discussing her research and reading from her new novel project. Fri. Oct. 2, 3:45-5:00 in McCain 1198. Reception to follow. All are welcome! @dallibraries.bsky.social @dalhistory.bsky.social
An exciting and brilliant choice for the DalReads program! We’re looking forward to the discussions!!
Dalhousie Libraries@dallibraries.bsky.social · last wk.Poetry, place, and the sea. Dal Reads 2026-27 title revealed! Acclaimed poetry collection Ocean by Dalhousie creative writing instructor Sue Goyette becomes the first poetry title chosen for the university's community reading program: www.dal.ca/news/2026/09...
Happening now!! One of our favourite times of year: our PhD candidates presenting their in-progress doctoral work!
Tonight! Featuring @dal-english.bsky.social professor Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social
Julia M. Wright@juliamwright.bsky.social · 2w agoTomorrow night (Sept 21) in the Paul O’Regan Theatre at the Halifax Central Library, 6:30-8:00pm: a panel and then moderated discussion to talk about universities’ importance to Nova Scotia. Doors open at 6pm.
Join us Sunday Sept 20 for the launch of Dr Len Diepeveen’s memoir, “When I Come Back We Will Talk: My Father, the War, and Me.” Stillwell Brewing, 3670 Kempt Rd. Doors open at 7:00, reading starts at 8:00. All are welcome! @dallibraries.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social @kingsbookstore.bsky.social
Happening now! (Beheadings, bloody knuckles, and beards abound…)
Department of English, Dalhousie U@dal-english.bsky.social · 2w agoTomorrow, Friday Sept 18, in our Speaker Series: Dr. Kathy Cawsey presents, “The Riddle of Toxic Masculinity in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” McCain 1198, 3:45-5:00, followed by a reception! All are welcome!
Tomorrow, Friday Sept 18, in our Speaker Series: Dr. Kathy Cawsey presents, “The Riddle of Toxic Masculinity in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” McCain 1198, 3:45-5:00, followed by a reception! All are welcome!
Congratulations to Dal English Instructor and Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Assistant Dean, Dr. Becca Babcock on the publication of her latest novel! @dallibraries.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social
Driving into the Sun
A road trip, a wedding, and a family crisis that tests two sisters’ love. When Annie gets engaged to a woman she met online, she asks her sister Molly to travel across the country and help move hersel...
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Join us Sunday Sept 20 for the launch of Dr Len Diepeveen’s memoir, “When I Come Back We Will Talk: My Father, the War, and Me.” Stillwell Brewing, 3670 Kempt Rd. Doors open at 7:00, reading starts at 8:00. All are welcome! @dallibraries.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social @kingsbookstore.bsky.social
really looking forward to this one
Department of English, Dalhousie U@dal-english.bsky.social · 3w agoOur Chair, Erin Wunker, is launching her new book, All the Waking Hours, at Café Lara, hosted by colleague Asha Jeffers, on Sept 19, starting at 6:30–all are welcome! Copies will be sold by our friends @kingsbookstore.bsky.social! @dallibraries.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social
Our Chair, Erin Wunker, is launching her new book, All the Waking Hours, at Café Lara, hosted by colleague Asha Jeffers, on Sept 19, starting at 6:30–all are welcome! Copies will be sold by our friends @kingsbookstore.bsky.social! @dallibraries.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social
Some exciting news: I have signed a contract to write 'Reading George Eliot: An Introduction' for the Routledge series Reading Literature Today. It seems like the book I have been preparing to write my whole career.
Reading George Eliot
In my last post I noted that I had been looking up passages in The Mill on the Floss for reasons I would say more about in another post. This is that other post! It’s about some exciting news…
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Welcome to the start of term, everyone! What courses/readings are you most looking forward to? Speaking of looking forward, check out our speaker series schedule for the Fall, below! @dalhousie.bsky.social @dallibraries.bsky.social
Speaker Series
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emily wilson’s odyssey is still sold out everywhere but we’ve got tons because we’ve always been that store 🤓
Join us and our colleagues at King’s this Fall (Oct 1) for the launch of English Prof Emeritus Ron Huebert’s new novel, “Loving John Donne”! @dallibraries.bsky.social @kingsbookstore.bsky.social
Book Launch: Loving John Donne | University of King's College
The Early Modern Studies Program invites you to the launch of Inglis Professor Ronald Huebert's novel, Loving John Donne! Loving John Donne begins with Sir Henry Wotton and Izaak Walton fishing in the...
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"If ultimately she decided that the examined life too might not be worth living, it was not without having given all she had to the effort": some reflections on finishing my read-through of Woolf's diaries.
“Observe Perpetually”: Woolf’s Diaries
I intend no introspection. I mark Henry James’s sentence: Observe perpetually. Observe the oncome [sic] of age. Observe greed. Observe my own despondency. By that means it becomes serviceable…
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Congratulations to @dal-english.bsky.social PhD graduate, now @usask.ca colleague, @brcongdon.bsky.social, and Prof @jasonhaslam.ca! That cover will wake you up! @dalgradstudies.bsky.social @dallibraries.bsky.social @kingsbookstore.bsky.social
Brad Congdon@brcongdon.bsky.social · 3mo agoPublication News! You can now pre-order the Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Weird, edited by me and @jasonhaslam.ca Look at that cover!! www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
Part of my #weekendreading is Margaret Forster's biography of Daphne du Maurier. I didn't really know much about du Maurier, so it's fascinating stuff. (This is background reading for reviewing Rose Tremain's forthcoming novel 'The Housekeeper.')
Congratulations to our chair Dr Erin Wunker on her new book! @dallibraries.bsky.social @kingsbookstore.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social
Assembly Press@pressassembly.bsky.social · 4mo ago📣 Fall 2026 📣 We’ve got a perfect pair of books lined up for fall: essays by Erin Wunker and poetry by Dani Spinosa! Read all about ‘em over on our website - you can preorder there now, or do so via your favourite independent bookstore.
Congratulations to all of our grad students (and faculty) who presented at the conference of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) last week! Amazing work! See pictures on our student association’s Insta: www.instagram.com/p/DZYh46aDUcK
@dags.english on Instagram: "Congratulations to everyone who presented at ACCUTE 2026 in Montreal this past week! Each paper was crafted with care and each presentation was thought-provoking. You did ...
11 likes, 1 comments - dags.english on June 9, 2026: "Congratulations to everyone who presented at ACCUTE 2026 in Montreal this past week! Each paper was crafted with care and each presentation was th...
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The Two-Eyed Seeing program is marking 10 years! Big thanks to @msvuenglish.bsky.social @msvuhalifax.bsky.social and NSERC Promoscience for making another three years possible. www.msvu.ca/two-eyed-see...
Two-Eyed Seeing Program marks 10 years with new NSERC grant
Congratulations to the Two-Eyed Seeing Program on receiving NSERC PromoScience funding for a fourth three-year term and marking its 10th anniversary! The Two-Eyed Seeing (TES) Program is made possible...
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A great review of @dal-english.bsky.social professor @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social’s “I Confess”! @dallibraries.bsky.social @kingsbookstore.bsky.social
Truth and Dare: Eric Schmaltz’s I Confess and Hajer Mirwali’s Revolutions | The Miramichi Reader
Eric Schmaltz’s I Confess (Coach House, 2025) and Hajer Mirwali’s Revolutions (Talonbooks, 2025), offer the promise of revelation and the certainty of obfus ...
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We just love this story!
Department of English, Dalhousie U@dal-english.bsky.social · 4mo agoCongratulations to @dal-english.bsky.social Professor Emeritus Leonard Diepeveen for winning this year's @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social annual short-story contest with his story "New Normal"! Read the story at the link in the quoted post. @dallibraries.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social
Congratulations to @dal-english.bsky.social Professor Emeritus Leonard Diepeveen for winning this year's @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social annual short-story contest with his story "New Normal"! Read the story at the link in the quoted post. @dallibraries.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social
darkwinterlitmag@darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social · 4mo agoAnd the 4th Anniversary Contest Short Story winner is...! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/and-the...
An interview with @dal-english.bsky.social professor Dr Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social on his latest poetry collection! @dallibraries.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social
Traces of the Self: An Interview with Eric Schmaltz - ASAP/Review
Eric Schmaltz’s latest poetry collection I CONFESS (2026) documents the poet’s experience of undergoing a lie detector test. At once intrigued and unnerved by this extractive method of truth productio...
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Elizabeth Strout's latest novel is "sombre, even bleak, both because [its protagonist] is having a rough time and because, as he observes, 'his country was committing suicide'." My review is in the new TLS.
Make it go away
“I wonder why people never say anything real”, the history teacher Artie Dam muses to his wife, Evie, early in Elizabeth Strout’s uncharacteristically
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Coming this September from Freehand Books, by @dalhousie.bsky.social English Professor Emeritus Leonard Diepeveen! Book launch is September 20, 7 p.m. at Stillwell Brewery on Kempt Road.
