SETS News

SETS professor Sky Gilbert’s play It’s All Tru recently finished a run at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto. 

SETS professor Jade Ferguson presented “Seeking Sanctuary: Mob Violence, Black Citizenship, and Anti-Lynching Activism in Canada,” the inaugural lecture in the Bremen-Guelph Lecture Series.

Congratulations to SETS Professor Lawrence Hill who won the 2017 Canada Council’s Molson Prize for his distinguished career in the arts.

Congratulations to Danila Botha, a student in the MFA in Creative Writing, who is a finalist for the Trillium Award for her collection of eighteen short stories For All the Men (and Some of the Women) I’ve Known.

Improvisation and Social Aesthetic is a recently published title in the series Improvisation, Community and Social Practice, which is edited by SETS professor Daniel Fischlin and published by Duke University Press.

Classroom Action: Human Rights, Critical Activism and Community-Based Education, a collection of essays edited by SETS Professor Ajay Heble, has been released by University of Toronto Press

SETS Professor Emeritus Ric Knowles has been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Association for Theatre Research. Part of the presentation speech reads as follows: 

SETS professor Judith Thompson has created and directed the theatre production Wildfire In Toronto. Here is a review: https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/2017/05/05/wildfires-cast-wi...

SETS PhD student Stephanie Settle has won the 2016 Doris Lessing Graduate Student Essay Prize for her essay “Power to Disturb: Exploring Selected Works of Doris Lessing Through the Critical Lens of Queer Theory.”