Department of English
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Travel Report: Lindsey Bannister, English August 22, 2017
Lindsey Bannister, a PhD candidate in English, received a Graduate International Research Travel Award (GIRTA) to further her research in Ontario and Alberta. -
Dr. Amy De'Ath receives Dean's Convocation Medal June 05, 2017
Dr. Amy De’Ath has an international reputation as a poet and her doctoral dissertation, Unsociable Poetry: Antagonism and Abstraction in Contemporary Feminized Poetics, provides new insights into the long-standing debate over the relationships between culture and capital in a moment of protracted economic crisis. -
Convocation Medal Winners 2017 May 29, 2017
Congratulations to this year’s Convocation Medal Winners! They will receive their awards at our Spring Convocation, June 6–9, 2017. -
Job Posting: Research Assistant for the Centre for English Language Learning, Teaching, and Research August 31, 2016
The Centre for English Language Learning, Teaching, and Research (CELLTR) is looking for a Research Assistant starting September 10, 2016. -
Comparative Canadian Literature Graduate Student Conference February 11, 2016
Call For Papers - The 14th Comparative Canadian Literature Graduate Student Conference -
Research Profile: Jordan Abel September 15, 2015
PhD student Jordan Abel, of the Nisga’a Nation, is a prize-winning poet who is using his three-year $54,000 Graduate Aboriginal Entrance Scholarship to study the poetics of decolonization. -
Postdoc Profile: Claire Battershill, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow September 15, 2015
Congratulations to Dr. Claire Battershill, recipient of a prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship of $70,000 per year for two years to support her research at SFU's Department of English. -
Wayde Compton, MA, English September 08, 2015
Meet Wayde Compton, English MA, author, writer's studio director and Canadian-African history activist. -
Dean of Graduate Studies Awards for Excellence June 01, 2015
We’re delighted to announce the recipients of the 2014 Dean of Graduate Studies Awards for Excellence. -
Postdoc Profile: Keren Zaiontz, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow May 11, 2015
Congratulations to Keren Zaiontz, recipient of the 2014 Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. -
Faculty Profile: Dr. Jeff Derksen, English February 03, 2015
There was no shortage of volunteers from SFU's Department of English to sign Dr. Jeff Derksen’s nomination for Excellence in Graduate Leadership for his service as the Graduate Program Chair from 2012–2015. -
Dean of Graduate Studies Awards for Excellence May 21, 2014
We’re delighted to announce the recipients of the 2014 Dean of Graduate Studies Awards for Excellence. -
Contest Entry: Ashley Morford December 02, 2013
My research is driven by the desire to explore decolonizing methodologies. -
Research Profile: Ashley Morford, English November 01, 2013
English MA student Ashley Morfordi, a recipient of the SSHRC Master’s Award and the Provost Prize of Distinction, research interests surround literature by indigenous authors. -
Faculty Profile: Dr. Tom Grieve, English October 08, 2013
It's not often that anyone gets a chance to develop an innovative new graduate program in English, but in 2007, Dr. Tom Grieve did just that with the Master of Arts for Teachers of English (MATE) program. -
Dean of Graduate Studies Awards for Excellence May 23, 2013
We’re delighted to announce the recipients of the 2012 Dean of Graduate Studies Awards for Excellence. -
Faculty Profile: Dr. Margaret Linley, English October 12, 2012
As graduate program chair, Dr. Margaret Linley spearheaded changes in SFU's Department of English which have led to a department which is a university leader and model in its support of graduate students and their goals and needs. -
Dean of Graduate Studies Awards for Excellence October 12, 2012
We’re delighted to announce the recipients of the 2012 Dean of Graduate Studies Awards for Excellence. -
Erin Keating Receives PhD and Dean's Convocation Medal June 14, 2012
Dr. Erin Keating's thesis is a theoretically informed study of two popular late-Restoration genres — pathetic tragedy and secret history. -
Convocation Medal Winners 2012 June 04, 2012
Congratulations to this year’s Convocation Medal Winners! They will receive their awards at our Spring Convocation, June 12–15, 2012. -
Medium Difficulty: Game analysis website goes global April 06, 2012
We were sitting in Karl’s office in the English department, talking about video games. -
Nico Dicecco looking for collaborators in adaptation studies April 05, 2012
What happens when an autodidactic pop-culture nerd wants to procrastinate from his doctoral work? -
Staff Profile: Christa Gruninger, English November 07, 2011
Christa Gruninger’s record of service at as the graduate secretary in the Department of English is full of enthusiastic comments from her students and her supervisors, who note her cheerful disposition and positive attitude. -
Dean of Graduate Studies Awards for Excellence May 19, 2011
We’re delighted to announce the recipients of the 2010 Dean of Graduate Studies Service Awards. -
Research Profile: Alana Gerecke, English May 18, 2011
Congratulations to Alana Gerecke, who has just been awarded a Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarship to support her doctoral research in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University. She has also received a 2009-10 Queen’s Fellowship and a SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship