It produced floods deep enough to carry away cattle, and winds powerful enough to sink flotillas. It generated heart-stopping deep freezes and weeks-long snowstorms. Weather extremes were no picnic for Britons from the 1500s to the 1700s, a period his …
English and Writing Studies
2013 Distinguished University Professorship
In the fields of medicine and law, Western’s latest Distinguished University Professorship (DUP) winners emulate the motivation behind why the award was created. In honouring faculty who have built a record of excellence in the areas of teaching, research and service over a substantial career at Western, this year’s recipients receive an award of $10,000 to support their scholarly activities and will deliver a public lecture at a future date. This year’s DUP winners are:
Course weds literature, marriage in global context
Taiwo Osinubi is taking his students on an unconventional tour around the world, but no luggage is necessary – only books and the subject of marriage.
Student behind the story speaks out
Within days, Kierston Drier’s letter went viral.
Time has come for Potter exploration in the classroom
Gabrielle Ceraldi is sure it is a perfect fit for today’s generation of Western students.
McDayter and Paulson: Teachers, technology come together at symposium
What are the implications for education of the tremendous revolution in new media reshaping our society and culture?
Future of the Middle Ages
The Middle Ages are over. Well, sort of.
Future of domestic and workplace violence
In the next 40 years, domestic violence will be a rare occurrence.
The future of humanities
The humanities, we are being told, has no future as technology has already rendered it obsolete. There is little new in this, of course; the demise of the humanities has been imminent for at least 30 years. What is, perhaps, different now, is it has a new champion, one that will putatively reinvigorate and renew our disciplines, but simultaneously cause some disquiet among many it has come to ‘save.’
Future of film
In 1995, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the French cinématographe, the Lumière Museum gave the original film camera and projector to some of the most interesting and well-‐respected film directors of our time, inviting them to shoot a film in the same conditions that the pioneers used to do it.
Future of literary masters
James Joyce’s Ulysses, the novel I spend much of my time teaching and thinking and writing about, is full of predictions, as chapters confidently assert what will happen in a horse race later today, in the careers of men in public life and in their friends’ futures.
Future of reconciliation
Far too often, when non-native Canadians think of Indigenous peoples, they think of the past. Media images project fantasies of natives posed in a romantic state of nature, frozen in a distant moment of history.
Writer-in-residence program marks four decades of connections
As Western’s Writer-in-Residence program, hosted by the Department of English, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, it’s important to keep its role and necessity in mind, said Manina Jones, professor and vice-chair in the English department.
2013 Distinguished University Professorship
In the fields of medicine and law, Western’s latest Distinguished University Professorship (DUP) winners emulate the motivation behind why the award was created. In honouring faculty who have built a record of excellence in the areas of teaching, research and service over a substantial career at Western, this year’s recipients receive an award of $10,000 to support their scholarly activities and will deliver a public lecture at a future date. This year’s DUP winners are:
Course weds literature, marriage in global context
Taiwo Osinubi is taking his students on an unconventional tour around the world, but no luggage is necessary – only books and the subject of marriage.
Student behind the story speaks out
Within days, Kierston Drier’s letter went viral.
Time has come for Potter exploration in the classroom
Gabrielle Ceraldi is sure it is a perfect fit for today’s generation of Western students.
McDayter and Paulson: Teachers, technology come together at symposium
What are the implications for education of the tremendous revolution in new media reshaping our society and culture?
Future of the Middle Ages
The Middle Ages are over. Well, sort of.
Future of domestic and workplace violence
In the next 40 years, domestic violence will be a rare occurrence.
The future of humanities
The humanities, we are being told, has no future as technology has already rendered it obsolete. There is little new in this, of course; the demise of the humanities has been imminent for at least 30 years. What is, perhaps, different now, is it has a new champion, one that will putatively reinvigorate and renew our disciplines, but simultaneously cause some disquiet among many it has come to ‘save.’
Future of film
In 1995, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the French cinématographe, the Lumière Museum gave the original film camera and projector to some of the most interesting and well-‐respected film directors of our time, inviting them to shoot a film in the same conditions that the pioneers used to do it.
Future of literary masters
James Joyce’s Ulysses, the novel I spend much of my time teaching and thinking and writing about, is full of predictions, as chapters confidently assert what will happen in a horse race later today, in the careers of men in public life and in their friends’ futures.
Future of reconciliation
Far too often, when non-native Canadians think of Indigenous peoples, they think of the past. Media images project fantasies of natives posed in a romantic state of nature, frozen in a distant moment of history.
Writer-in-residence program marks four decades of connections
As Western’s Writer-in-Residence program, hosted by the Department of English, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, it’s important to keep its role and necessity in mind, said Manina Jones, professor and vice-chair in the English department.