Welcome new faculty to the College of Arts!
The College of Arts is pleased to welcome our new faculty!
College News
U of G Names New Dean of Arts
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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: FACULTY AWARDS
SETS English Professor Christine Bold has received two prestigious awards for her most recent book, The Frontier Club: Popular Westerns and Cultural Power, 1880-1924 (Oxford UP, 2013): the 2014 Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literary and Cultural Studies (sponsored by the Western Literature Association) and the 2014 Robert K. Martin Prize for Best Book (sponsored by the Canadian Association for American Studies).
SETS: AWARD FOR GRAD STUDENT
Congratulations to SETS PhD student Brian Lefresne, who has received a Morroe Berger–Benny Carter research award from the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University.