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SETS: GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD NOMINEES

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!

SETS: HISTORY OF ENGLISH STUDIES AT GUELPH

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!

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.

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).