Carleton University English Literature Society

03/31/2026

Congratulations to Professor Barbara Leckie, who has won a Carleton University Research Achievement Award! Read more here:

The awards were established in 1989 to enhance research quality and recognize research excellence. The recipients’ terms run from May to April after an announcement each spring. Be sure to also view the Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic)‘s Teaching Awards, awarded at the same ti...

03/30/2026

Congratulations to Professor Jodie Medd, who has won a FASS Teaching Award! https://carleton.ca/english/2026/professor-jodie-medd-has-won-a-fass-teaching-award/

03/03/2026

English student Ayla Sully was recently featured in a FASS News Story. Read more here:

My name is Ayla, I’m an undergraduate English student at Carleton University, and I’m currently finishing up my three-term Co-op experience. When I first began, I thought I would be working ‘English-specific’ jobs like technical editing or working as an intern at a publishing house. Now, tow...

02/24/2026

Please click here to read the latest Spotlight on Research, this month is about Professor Jody Mason’s new book, "Books for Development: Canada In the Late Twentieth-Century World".

While books are often cast as axiomatically good, Professor Jody Mason’s new book Books for Development: Canada In the Late Twentieth-Century World, argues that this idea can be troubled by revisiting the history of development. Books for Development, published this month by McGill-Queen’s Unive...

02/12/2026

The English Department is pleased to announce the annual Lilian I. Found and George Johnston Poetry Competitions. More information and the submission form can be found by scanning the QR code or visiting our website: https://carleton.ca/english/life-in-english/departamental-awards/annual-poetry-competitions/

01/19/2026

Please join us for The Blurred Divide: Can We Draw a Line Between Fiction and Non-Fiction? A conversation between Ottawa authors Monia Mazigh and Jamie Chai Yun Liew. It will take place at 6pm on February 4 at the Carleton-Dominion Chalmers Centre. Please register here: https://carleton.ca/english/event/the-blurred-divide-can-we-draw-a-line-between-fiction-and-non-fiction/

11/14/2025

Please click here to read our latest Spotlight on Research, this month is about Professor Adam Barrows.

In the Fall of 2024 Professor Adam Barrows taught a graduate seminar on the topic of madness and time in 20th-century literature. This will be the topic of a book-length project that Professor Barrows is beginning to write, with the seminar creating an opportunity for a small group of MA and PhD s...

11/07/2025

Sumac Literary Magazine is now accepting submissions for Issue 4! Please click here for more information or scan the QR code. hhttps://carleton.ca/english/event/winter-2026-sumac-literary-magazine-call-for-submissions/

11/07/2025

Please join us in sending our warm and sincere congratulations to Prof. Sarah Brouillette, who was named on the Stanford-Elseveir list of the world’s most-cited scholars (for the second time!). Click here to read more:

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11/05/2025

Professor Adam Barrows was recently interviewed by the Charlatan ahead of his upcoming show, Babette's Feast, at the Gladstone Theatre. Read more here:

Adam Barrows is a Carleton University English professor. He is also a method actor, starring in 9th Hour Theatre Company’s 'Babette’s Feast.'

10/15/2025

In preparation for the 2025-2026 Munro-Beattie Lecture on October 15th (tonight!), students Sophie Drache and Erica Raley spoke with lecturer Ivan Coyote over the phone about trans relationships, censorship, and the power of storytelling in creating networks of resistance. Ivan Coyote is a writer, storyteller and performer. They have created four films, seven stage shows, three albums, and authored 13 books. Their most recent book published in 2021, Care Of, is a collection of correspondences between Ivan, fans, readers and audience members, co-authoring a story of relationality that Ivan says is essential in our modern political moment.

Ivan Coyote Munro Beattie Lecture

09/24/2025

The Department of English warmly invites faculty and graduate students in FASS to the Fall 2025 PhD Speaker Series lecture. We are thrilled to welcome as the speaker Dr. Sally Chivers (Trent University), author of The Silvering Screen: Old Age and Disability in Cinema (UTP, 2011).