SOTEC News

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!

There is a new publication in the book series edited by Daniel Fischlin from Duke University Press and associated with ICASP: https://www.dukeupress.edu/negotiated-moments

Congratulations to Mark Kaethler who successfully defended his PhD dissertation, Thomas Middleton's Middle Way: Political Irony and Jacobean Drama, on Friday, January 15.

Congratulations to Allen Kwan, who successfully defended his PhD thesis, Authored Agency: Exploring the Language and Grammar of Video Games, on Friday, January 8.

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

In August  Sky Gilbert's play Naked Hamilton was a hit at the FringeNYC -- TimeOut calling it a "charming 60 minute gem." Naked Hamilton will go on to be performed at Fringe Encore (the best of the New York City and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals) in October.

Judith Thompson, a member of faculty in the School of English and Theatre Studies, has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.  This is a tremendous honour which recognizes Judith's accomplishments as an internationally renowned playwright and director whose contributions  have been acknowledged through many awards, including twice receiving the Governor General's Award for Drama.  Additionally, in 2005, Judith was named as an Officer of the Order of Canada. 

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.

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).

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...