Two graduates from the PhD program are about to have books published: Elizabeth Groenevald's Making Feminist Media: Third-Wave Magazines on the Cusp of the Digital Age (Wilfrid Laurier University Press) and Benjamin Authers' A Culture of Rights: Law, Literature, and Canada (University of Toronto Press).
Creative Writing MFA grad Ayelet Tsabari has just won the $100,000 Sami Rohr prize for Jewish literature for her collection of stories, The Best Place on Earth, published by HarperCollins Canada. The stories were Ayelet's thesis project in the MFA.
http://forward.com/articles/215316/ayelet-tsabari-wins-sami-rohr-prize/
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.
Congratulations to SETS PhD grad Ian Reilly who has accepted a tenure-track position at Mount Saint Vincent University.
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
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).