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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 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

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.

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).

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!

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.

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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...

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...

The Department has formed a Diversity and Climate Committee to work towards welcoming everyone into the practice of Philosophy.