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

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Publication 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 · 2mo 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

We just love this story!

Department of English, Dalhousie U@dal-english.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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

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 · 2mo ago

And 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.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! @dalgradstudies.bsky.social

Due to a number of requests (it is end-of-term!), we have extended the deadline for the American Carnage conference to 1 June 2026. The conference takes place at Dalhousie University, 23-25 October 2026. You can see the #CFP at our new website, below. Please share widely! #AmericanStudies

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Visit the post for more.

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Dal Libraries Research Camp will take you through all the elements of research from basic to advanced. This free program is offered through online modules you can do at your own pace on Brightspace, with options for in-person sessions in May & June. Enroll anytime: dal.ca.libguides.com/ResearchCamp

REMINDER: Survey closes tomorrow (May 1) Work/volunteer in literacy in Nova Scotia (schools, libraries, community, policy)? Your input matters. Help shape a provincial picture of literacy: surveys.dal.ca/opinio/s?s=8... Please share widely. #literacy #dalhousie #research #yorkville #LNS

For #SFF folks in Halifax May 15-17, check out @tricon-hfx.bsky.social! I'm moderating a panel with papers by @michaelcameron.bsky.social, @lnuonhorror.bsky.social, & @heleninwords.bsky.social, and speaking on a panel on Proletariat Themes in Science Fiction, and there a tonne of amazing speakers!

TriCon@tricon-hfx.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We have a program schedule! 🔥🔱🔥🔱🔥🔱🔥 A calendar view with full panelist details is coming shortly, but you can now view the full* slate of panels, workshops, lectures, readings, launches and more on offer at TriCon Halifax 2026! tricon-halifax.com/panels/

Coming at you 9-5 this Saturday for Indie Bookstore Day! We’ll have some great sales, the Libro.fm golden ticket, some fun giveaways, and probably some other cool things i haven’t even thought of yet that you’ll see when you come visit!

Congratulations to DOCTOR Jay Boyes, who successfully defended their doctoral dissertation on April 22nd, 2026! @dalgradstudies.bsky.social

.@dal-english.bsky.social professor Rohan Maitzen's "enthusiasm for talking about the novel was infectious, and our dialogue reminded me about the power of literature to engage." We agree! @dalhousie.bsky.social @dallibraries.bsky.social @rohanmaitzen.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com

It took me six months to read the 800-page Middlemarch. Here’s why I think you should, too

George Eliot’s classic novel isn’t a quick read, but it is a rewarding one

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Congratulations @heleninwords.bsky.social!

Helen Pinsent@heleninwords.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Arrived home to find this beauty waiting for me! Thanks to the editors and to @uniwalespress.bsky.social for making my first scholarly publication experience so rewarding. @dal-english.bsky.social @igagoths.bsky.social

Today! Our final speaker series event of the year, co-hosted with the Black and African Diaspora Studies program. All are welcome! @dalhistory.bsky.social @dalfaculty.bsky.social @dallibraries.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social

Department of English, Dalhousie U@dal-english.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Our speaker series this Friday, co-hosted with Black & African Diaspora Studies: "Anthologizing Afrofuturism: A Panel Discussion & Launch of The @broadviewpress.bsky.social Anthology of Science Fiction," with Profs. Asha Jeffers, Isaac Saney & Jason Haslam. All are welcome! @dallibraries.bsky.social

Our speaker series this Friday, co-hosted with Black & African Diaspora Studies: "Anthologizing Afrofuturism: A Panel Discussion & Launch of The @broadviewpress.bsky.social Anthology of Science Fiction," with Profs. Asha Jeffers, Isaac Saney & Jason Haslam. All are welcome! @dallibraries.bsky.social

Great weekend read: Pandemics and the Gothic by @juliamwright.bsky.social mh.bmj.com/content/51/4...

Pandemics and the gothic, then and now: a hum in the background

While the assertion, ‘no one really wants to talk about COVID anymore’, has become a common refrain, cultural evidence suggests otherwise. Rather, cultural materials indicate not only a sustained inte...

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"Simple in its premise, unsparing in its execution, and almost unbearably poignant in its tenderness": some thoughts on Sarah Perry's Death of an Ordinary Man are up now at Novel Readings.

Sarah Perry, Death of an Ordinary Man

But now I understand there are no ordinary lives–that every death is the end of a single event in time’s history: an event so improbable it represents a miracle, and irreplaceable in ev…

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Have you got your ticket to Humanities Today featuring poet George Elliott Clarke and singer Julia Tynes? Reserve free: www.eventbrite.ca/e/humanities...

Humanities Today: George Elliott Clarke on "The Discipline of Poetry"

A free evening of poetry and music celebrating humanities for all!

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