SOTEC News

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.”

Congratualations to SETS PhD graduate and sessional instructor Tony Berto, whose play Row was a winner in the Arch and Bruce Brown Playwriting Competition.  This is the sixteenth year of the competition for which 267 submissions were received.

Ajay Heble, a professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies, was named the SSHRC 2016 Impact Award winner in the partnership category during an event today in Ottawa. He is the first U of G professor to win an Impact Award in this category. Heble will receive a $50,000 grant for research, promotion, knowledge mobilization or related activities.

Recent PhD graduate Mark Kaethler has published an article on a course he taught in the English program:: "'See me, and learn to know me': Teaching Lord Mayor's Shows in the Undergraduate Classroom," in This Rough Magic (http://www.thisroughmagic.org/kaethler%20article.html).

SETS Professor Mark Fortier has published a 3rd edition of his book Theory/Theatre: An Introduction with Routledge.