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.

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
April 22, 2016
The Annual English Honours Colloquium
May 04, 2016
On writing a textbook
Paul Budra - on writing a Shakespeare textbook
May 09, 2016
English 881 Reads
English 881
May 16, 2016
Deciphering Dickinson
Alyssa Bridgman
May 27, 2016
Interview with Hannah Celinski
Carolyne Clare
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
September 04, 2018
Welcome Back!
Paul Budra
September 14, 2018
When One Dream Fails: letter to first years
Isabella Wang
June 19, 2019
English Graduate Conference
October 03, 2019
Field Notes from the Folger
by Betty Schellenberg
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
November 25, 2019
SFU’s Stephen Collis wins the 2019 Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize
Professor Stephen Collis, author of six poetry collections and five books of prose, has won the 2019 Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize.
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.
January 30, 2020
Celebrating Student Achievement
The Department of English celebrates student achievement.
March 27, 2020
Undergrad students across FASS earn top honours in 2019 Student Learning Commons Writing Contest
Congratulations to students from across the university and especially across the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) who took home top honours in the 3rd Annual 2019 Student Learning Commons (SLC) Writing Contest!
April 01, 2020
English student Kevin Spenst finds fulfillment at SFU after 30-year hiatus
After completing his BA at SFU 30 years ago, Kevin Spenst is back, finding fulfillment in graduate studies.
April 15, 2020
Alix Shield Successfully Defends Her PhD Thesis
Alix Shield successfully defended her outstanding dissertation, Kwaskatahsowin ("Put things to right"): Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Indigenous Women's Writing, Editing, and Publishing in Canada.
April 22, 2020
Remembering Mary-Ann Stouck (1941-2020)
The English Department remembers retired Professor Mary-Ann Stouck, who passed away April 4, 2020.
May 05, 2020
Congratulations to our 2020-2021 CGSM Winners!
The Department of English congratulates our six MA students for winning the 2020-2021 CGSM competition
May 07, 2020
SFU English Graduate Students Rachel Bodnariuc and Cole Mash Win SSHRC Doctoral Awards
Rachel Bodnariuc and Cole Mash have won 2020 SSHRC Doctoral awards.
May 11, 2020
MATE 2018–2020 Virtual Symposium
Virtual Symposium on Shakespeare & Indigenous Literatures
May 11, 2020
Amila Li Receives the 2020 Teaching Assistant Teaching Award
The Department of English congratulates Amila Li on her 2020 Teaching Assistant Teaching Award.
June 02, 2020
Celebrating the 2020 SFU English Undergraduate Award Winners
The SFU English Department congratulates its 2020 undergraduate award winners.
June 10, 2020
Alix Shield graduates with her PhD in English having contributed to the study of Indigenous Literature
Alix Shield graduates with her PhD in English. Read about her journey focused on the study of Indigenous literature.
June 30, 2020
Black Lives Matter: Reading List
American and Canadian publications
July 28, 2020
Congratulations to Carolyne Clare on her successful PhD dissertation
Carolyne Clare successfully defended her PhD dissertation on July 27, 2020.
August 07, 2020
SFU English department launches creative writing minor
You can now minor in creative writing for the first time. Read all about it in SFU News.
August 14, 2020
In Memoriam: Chinmoy Banerjee, professor emeritus
It is with great sadness that the SFU Department of English notes the passing of professor emeritus Chinmoy Banerjee on July 29, 2020.
September 08, 2020
Paul Budra collaborates with UBC colleagues and Bard on the Beach on a virtual presentation of “Rac(e)ing Othello”
Professor Paul Budra and two UBC English professors have collaborated with Bard on the Beach to bring audiences “Rac(e)ing Othello”. Discover how you can attend online for free!
August 24, 2020
David Chariandy: one of "USA Today's" Black novelists you should read
"USA Today" names professor David Chariandy as one of its 100 Black novelists and fiction writers you should read.
September 11, 2020
SFU English grad student Alyssa Bridgman wins the David and Mary Macaree Graduate Fellowship
Alyssa Bridgman discusses her project on Simon Fraser, which won her a graduate fellowship.
November 05, 2020
"The Plague" by Kevin Chong
Attend our upcoming online event with Kevin Chong and learn more about his prescient novel, "The Plague".
November 25, 2020
Explore your fears in this pandemic literature course next spring
SFU English offers pandemic literature course for spring
November 27, 2020
English professor emeritus Sandra Djwa named to the Order of Canada
Sandra Djwa, professor emeritus and former chair of English, has been named to the Order of Canada for her contributions to the fields of Canadian literature and Canadian literary criticism.
November 30, 2020
Congratulations to Ethan Gibson and Natasha Tar!
The Department of English celebrates the achievements of undergraduate students Ethan Gibson and Natasha Tar.
December 15, 2020
Remembering Dr. Ronald J. Baker OC
We remember Dr. Ronald J. Baker OC, who was the first head of the SFU Department of English (1964-1968) and the Director of Academic Planning for Simon Fraser University.
January 22, 2021
English Department alumnus Alix Shield earns more kudos
Alix Shield, a 2020 SFU English PhD alumnus, has won an Emerging Open Scholarship Award from the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute. Read more here.
January 26, 2021
Otoniya Okot Bitek bears witness in Shadbolt Fellowship
Learn more about Otoniya Okot Bitek, who is one of four Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellows in the Humanities for 2020-2021.
March 31, 2021
Meet SFU English’s New Graduate Program Assistant
SFU’s Department of English welcomes Kelli McKenna as its new graduate program assistant.