College News

A University of Guelph graduate is the winner of this year’s prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize for Canadian poets, and is also the youngest winner in the competition’s history.

Liz Howard, a creative writing master of fine arts (MFA) graduate, was awarded the $65,000 prize for her first book, Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent. She accepted the award at a ceremony June 2 in Toronto. She also received $10,000 for taking part in the Griffin Prize readings the day before.

Two SETS Theatre Studies graduates have recently been appointed to artistic directorships at major theatres, Thomas Morgan Jones at Theatre New Brunswick (one of the country's largest regional theatres) and Nina Lee Aquino to Toronto's Factory Theatre (one of the leading theatres in the country doing new work).

Professor Sandra Singer has co-edited Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook After Fifty. A previous co-edited volume will appear in paperback this Fall: Doris Lessing: Interrogating the Times.

http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/doris-lessings-the-golden-notebook-a...

https://ohiostatepress.org/index.htm?/books/catalogs/f10.html

SETS professor Daniel Fischlin is the editor of  a new series of Shakespeare editions tailored to the Canadian student. For more information follow this link: http://www.rocksmills.com/shakespeare-made-in-canada.html

SETS faculty member Christine Bold has been awarded two fellowships: a Visiting Canadian Fellowship in North American Studies at the Eccles Centre, British Library, London, and a Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship in the Humanities at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin. Both are in support of her "Vaudeville Indians" project. Congratulations!

SETS professor Jennifer Schacker has just published a co-edited collection with Wayne State University Press: Feathers, Paws, Fins, and Claws: Fairy-Tale Beasts. For more information go to http://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/feathers-paws-fins-and-claws

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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

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...