The SFU Department of English Blog

The SFU Department of English blog is here!

This is a space for SFU English students, faculty, staff, and alumni to share experiences, projects, ideas, images, habits, pedagogical questions, reading lists, and more.

October 03, 2019
Field Notes from the Folger
by Betty Schellenberg
June 19, 2019
English Graduate Conference
September 14, 2018
When One Dream Fails: letter to first years
Isabella Wang
September 04, 2018
Welcome Back!
Paul Budra
January 01, 2015
To Blog or Not to Blog: Social Media as Academic Practice
David Gaertner
January 01, 2015
On Teaching Gender, Sexuality, and Literature
Sarah Creel
July 29, 2015
A Recipe for an English Honours Project
Emma Goyer
July 30, 2015
"To be or not to be," Communicating our Humanities
Paul Budra
July 30, 2015
A Rhetorician, a Psychoanalyst, and a Comedian Walk into a Bar. . .
Sean Zwagerman
August 10, 2015
Performance Studies 101
Peter Dickinson
August 29, 2015
Welcome Back!
Paul Budra
September 24, 2015
Adventures in Research Opus 4
Lindsey Bannister
October 01, 2015
In Defense of my Year at SFU
Siobhan Doody
October 21, 2015
Geoff Ryman’s "The Child Garden" - A Review
Emma Mulligan
November 02, 2015
Close Encounters of the Imaginative Kind
Reema Faris
November 10, 2015
Filling in the Gaps
Lindsey Bannister
November 17, 2015
"Write what you know"
Kelsey Blair
November 24, 2015
Adventures in Pedagogy (Part One)
Nicky Didicher
November 26, 2015
Adventures in Pedagogy (Part Two)
Nicky Didicher
December 01, 2015
After Graduation from SFU
Virginia Li Lai-hing
December 16, 2015
English 310's Fantastic Final Projects
Tiffany Werth's English 310 Students
January 21, 2016
Alt-ac Panel
Haida Antolick, Mariner Janes, Dr. Anna Miegon, Dr. Jennifer Scott, and Sam Wiebe
January 25, 2016
The “Grad School Thing” in Medieval Studies
Maude Vachon-Roy
March 21, 2016
Multiculturalism: the new new
Moe Marjani
May 09, 2016
English 881 Reads
English 881
April 22, 2016
The Annual English Honours Colloquium
May 27, 2016
Interview with Hannah Celinski
Carolyne Clare
January 26, 2020
On writing a textbook
Paul Budra
May 16, 2016
Deciphering Dickinson
Alyssa Bridgman
June 08, 2016
Workshop on Descriptive Bibliography
Matt Hussey
July 08, 2016
New English Courses!
Sean Zwagerman
July 18, 2016
Experiential Learning in English literature courses
Nicky Didicher
August 29, 2016
Welcome!
Paul Budra
September 08, 2016
Chasing the Eighteenth-Century Literary Coterie through the Archive
Betty Schellenberg
September 15, 2016
Not Teaching Moby-Dick
Mike Everton
September 27, 2016
Banned Books Week!
Digital Humanities Innovation Lab (DHIL)
October 07, 2016
Podcasting for Scholarly Communication Workshop
Digital Humanities Innovation Lab (DHIL)
October 27, 2016
All poetry all the time.
Clint Burnham
February 22, 2017
What I do now: Using my English background to communicate with purpose.
Alison Roach
April 07, 2017
Spring English Network Career Panel
James Siddall, Yaa-Hemaa Obiri-Yeboah, Simone Abt, Christina Low, Penny Freno, & Chris Hilliard
May 24, 2017
Alt-ac Panel
Haida Antolick, Mariner James, Heather Ritzer, and Sam Wiebe
July 12, 2017
Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores
September 05, 2017
Welcome!
Paul Budra
September 18, 2017
Reacting to the Past Game
November 29, 2017
Dystopian Teaching
Clint Burnham
June 08, 2018
Recovering a life-story: Unpublished manuscript pages in Maria Campbell’s Halfbreed
Alix Shield
October 24, 2019
Isabella Wang: student, writer, and literary community volunteer
Isabella Wang spends so much time studying at Simon Fraser University (SFU) that the cleaners have started bringing her samosas.
October 29, 2019
Indigenous Literature and Film Festival 2019
Audience members, including SFU students, faculty, and former and current MATE students, mingle during the breaks: "Thank you for a fantastic day of learning."
November 08, 2019
Graduate and Post-Doctoral Studies Awards
November 20, 2019
Experiential Humanities: Engaging Students in 18th-Century Literature Through a Manuscript Media Lab
December 11, 2019
In Memoriam: Joseph Gallagher, Retired English Professor, March 26, 1938-October 17, 2019
December 17, 2019
Former SFU English Department Chair Becomes Lifetime Member of the RSC
January 08, 2020
Persistence is pivotal in major discovery by archive ninja Alix Shield
Alix Shield discovers two typewritten pages from Métis author Maria Campbell's seminal autobiography, "Halfbreed".
January 09, 2020
In Recognition of Professor Carole Gerson’s Retirement
The Department of English gathered in December 2019 to celebrate the career of newly retired Professor Carole Gerson, FRSC.