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).
Professor Daniel Fischlin's research on the Sanders Portait of William Shakespeare has been named one of 100 Ontario University "Game Changer" research developments from the last 100 years.
https://www.uoguelph.ca/cpa/wp/2015/03/five-u-of-g-innovations-recognize...
There is a new publication in the book series edited by Daniel Fischlin from Duke University Press and associated with ICASP: https://www.dukeupress.edu/negotiated-moments
SETS faculty Martha Nandorfy and Daniel Fischlin have published their recollections on Eduardo Galeano after the South American writer's recent death. http://opencanada.org/features/remembering-eduardo-galeano-a-master-narr...
SETS MFA grad Liz Howard has been nominated for a A Governor General's award for her poetry collection Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent (which came out of her MFA thesis project), and Bryden MacDonald, who is currently enrolled in the Theatre MA, is nominated for his play Odd Ducks. Congratulations and best of luck!
Time of the Sign, the new CD by The Vertical Squirrels (including SETS faculty Daniel Fischlin and Ajay Heble) has been released and is receiving positive feedback: http://frankstyles.blogspot.ca/2015/01/a-short-take-on-vertical-squirrels-time.html?spref=tw.
Now on the SETS homepage is a newly researched history of English Studies at Guelph by Natalie Shore. It can be found in the SETS Research list on the right side of this page. Enjoy!
Wednesday November 21 at 1:30 in Alexander 100
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.
