Western’s 2022-23 writer-in-residence is January Rogers, a Mohawk/Tuscarora writer from Six Nations of the Grand River who aims to be an incubator of great ideas. Rogers works in page poetry, spoken word performance poetry, video poetry and recorded p …
As executive director of the Walrus Foundation and co-publisher of The Walrus magazine, Shelley Ambrose, BA’83 (English), brings Walrus Talks to Western with The Walrus Talks Creativity event on March 12, in part to promote The Alice Munro Chair in Creativity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RBDWwjfIg4 International distribution for the Western alumni-helmed Whispers of Life has been picked up by Contemporary Arts Media-Artfilms, Turbid Lake Pictures recently announced. The film was written and directed by Florian Halbedl,...
Editor’s Note: Western News publishes submitted In Memoriam pieces on members of the Western community. For information, or to submit and article, contact Jason Winders, Western News editor, at jason.winders@uwo.ca. Richard Macmillan Stingle, a former Western English...
English and Writing Studies professor Kim Solga, along with an interdisciplinary team of colleagues, has revived the theatre on campus through the launch of Theatre Studies in the faculty.
This week, Western hosts the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) annual conference, bringing in nearly 350 scholars from around the world together under the theme Victorian Classes and Classifications. Established in 2002, NAVSA provides a continental...
The tapestry of London’s loosely knit creative communities is about to get tighter, thanks to Words, a new literary and creative arts festival. Set to take place this weekend in the Forest City, the festival aims to use the written and spoken word as a hub for...
English and Writing Studies professor M.J. Kidnie has been named one of only six winners of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) Teaching and Academic Librarianship Award. Since 1973, these awards have recognized exceptional...
It was the best grade I ever received on a university essay – 92 on a research paper about Henry David Thoreau’s Walden in American Literature class. I was impressed when I got it during the third year of my BA in English Language and Literature at Western; I guess I...
Offstage since day one, Anita Gaffney has played a role at the Stratford Festival for more than two decades. The Western grad and Stratford native started out selling ice cream to theatre-goers as a summer job. She’s also worked as a bookstore clerk, a waitress and...
Department of English and Writing Studies professor Steven Bruhm was recently awarded the F.E.L. Priestley Prize, which recognizes the best essay published in the journal English Studies in Canada, for his essay The Counterfeit Child, which appeared in the special...
Lights, camera, Western. The stage is set for the 2014 Western Film Festival scheduled for 5-9 p.m. Friday, March 28, at the Wolf Performance Hall, London Public Library, 251 Dundas St.
It’s all in a life’s – not a day’s – work for John Leonard.
As executive director of the Walrus Foundation and co-publisher of The Walrus magazine, Shelley Ambrose, BA’83 (English), brings Walrus Talks to Western with The Walrus Talks Creativity event on March 12, in part to promote The Alice Munro Chair in Creativity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RBDWwjfIg4 International distribution for the Western alumni-helmed Whispers of Life has been picked up by Contemporary Arts Media-Artfilms, Turbid Lake Pictures recently announced. The film was written and directed by Florian Halbedl,...
Editor’s Note: Western News publishes submitted In Memoriam pieces on members of the Western community. For information, or to submit and article, contact Jason Winders, Western News editor, at jason.winders@uwo.ca. Richard Macmillan Stingle, a former Western English...
English and Writing Studies professor Kim Solga, along with an interdisciplinary team of colleagues, has revived the theatre on campus through the launch of Theatre Studies in the faculty.
This week, Western hosts the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) annual conference, bringing in nearly 350 scholars from around the world together under the theme Victorian Classes and Classifications. Established in 2002, NAVSA provides a continental...
The tapestry of London’s loosely knit creative communities is about to get tighter, thanks to Words, a new literary and creative arts festival. Set to take place this weekend in the Forest City, the festival aims to use the written and spoken word as a hub for...
English and Writing Studies professor M.J. Kidnie has been named one of only six winners of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) Teaching and Academic Librarianship Award. Since 1973, these awards have recognized exceptional...
It was the best grade I ever received on a university essay – 92 on a research paper about Henry David Thoreau’s Walden in American Literature class. I was impressed when I got it during the third year of my BA in English Language and Literature at Western; I guess I...
Offstage since day one, Anita Gaffney has played a role at the Stratford Festival for more than two decades. The Western grad and Stratford native started out selling ice cream to theatre-goers as a summer job. She’s also worked as a bookstore clerk, a waitress and...
Department of English and Writing Studies professor Steven Bruhm was recently awarded the F.E.L. Priestley Prize, which recognizes the best essay published in the journal English Studies in Canada, for his essay The Counterfeit Child, which appeared in the special...
Lights, camera, Western. The stage is set for the 2014 Western Film Festival scheduled for 5-9 p.m. Friday, March 28, at the Wolf Performance Hall, London Public Library, 251 Dundas St.
It’s all in a life’s – not a day’s – work for John Leonard.