College News

Congratulations to Jessica Riley, who has successfully defended her PhD dissertation, Tracking Dramaturgical Influence: Lessons from the Archive (Urjo Kareda 1982-1986).

In January 2015 J.R. (Tim) Struthers, who has been researching and publishing on Alice Munro for forty years, published two new volumes in her honour:  the first, under his sole editorship and entitled Alice Munro and the Souwesto Story, being a special issue of the American creative/critical journal Short Story; the second, co-edited with poet John B.

Three former and current SETS PhD students have recently landed tenure-track appointments. Elizabeth Groeneveld is at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. Ben Authers is at the University of Canberra. Paul Watkins is at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo. Congratulations to all!

Congratulations to SETS PhD grad Ian Reilly who has accepted a tenure-track position at Mount Saint Vincent University.

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 Christine Bold has received the John Topham and Susan Redd Butler Off-campus Faculty Research Award from the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University, for her research on "Vaudeville Indians." She will also be a plenary speaker at the ACCUTE conference in May 2016 in Calgary.

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