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SSHRC Insight Grants -- 2 funding streams available
SSHRC has diversified its Insight Grant program and now offers Stream A and Stream B. Very exciting!
This change is meant to address a perceived bias encouraging larger and longer grants and to address a perception that there are currently no options for established scholars seeking smaller grants to support ongoing research.
2 SOFAM MFA grads make top 15 in RBC's painting contest!
Congratulations are in order for two SOFAM MFA grads whose paintings placed in the top 15 finalists for RBC's Canadian painting contest. Amanda Boulos and Ambera Wellmann are in the running for a cash prise of $25,000.
Professor Sandra Parmigiani featured in Canadian-Italian daily
Professor Sandra Parmigiani of SOLAL was recently featured in Corriere Canadese -- the Canadian-Italian community's daily newspaper. See the article here:http://www.corriere.com/index.php/en/interviste/1269-l-italiano-in-ontar... and celebrate all things Italian!
SETS: GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE
Congratulations to MFA grad Liz Howard who has won te 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize for her collection, Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent.
SETS: GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE NOMINEES
Two of three Griffin Poetry Prize short-listed poets are graduates of the Guelph Creative Writing MFA, Liz Howard and Soraya Peerbaye. Liz Howard is nominated for Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent (McClelland and Stewart), and Soraya Peerbaye is nominated for Tell: poems for a girlhood (Pedlar Press).
SETS: SUCCESSFUL PHD DEFENSE
Congratulations to Allen Kwan, who successfully defended his PhD thesis, Authored Agency: Exploring the Language and Grammar of Video Games, on Friday, January 8.
SETS: SETS PHD GRADS TO PUBLISH BOOKS
Two graduates from the PhD program are about to have books published: Elizabeth Groenevald's Making Feminist Media: Third-Wave Magazines on the Cusp of the Digital Age (Wilfrid Laurier University Press) and Benjamin Authers' A Culture of Rights: Law, Literature, and Canada (University of Toronto Press).
SETS: SUCCESSFUL PHD DEFENSE
Congratulations to Mark Kaethler who successfully defended his PhD dissertation, Thomas Middleton's Middle Way: Political Irony and Jacobean Drama, on Friday, January 15.