Department of English, Dalhousie U

A poster for the book launch of Sue Goyette's Future Howl, with a drawing of a wolf, and the information provided in the post.

Book Launch tonight with Dal English member Sue Goyette! Join Sue, with guests Stephanie Domet and Seán Kennedy! Oct 09, 7-9 p.m., at The Bus Stop Theatre!!

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025 The author was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm • Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’ The Nobel prize in literature for 2025 has been awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, the Swedish Academy has announced. The Academy cited the 71-year-old’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. Continue reading...

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025

Speaker Series

No Speaker-Series event this Friday 🥺, but you can see the nearly complete list of this term’s events below! A few more will likely be added soon, too! @dallibraries.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social

And Sew Forth | A review of “Margaret’s New Look” by Katherine Ashenburg | Literary Review of Canada Rohan Maitzen reviews Katherine Ashenburg’s novel “Margaret’s New Look,” a fashion mystery surrounding Christian Dior’s 1947 collection.

In the October issue of @reviewcanada.bsky.social I review Katherine Ashenburg’s “Margaret’s New Look”

The CFP for ACCUTE 2026 is now available. Will you be attending this year?
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October 1 marks the anniversary of the 1752 Treaty of Friendship and Peace between the Mi’kmaq Nation and the British Crown.

The purpose of Treaty Day is to promote public awareness about Mi’kmaw culture and heritage for all Nova Scotians.

#TreatyDay #NovaScotia #MikmaqNation

Dal professors worry about a condensed fall semester With the fall semester shortened due to the faculty lockout, professors at Dalhousie University are restructuring their courses to fit a condensed schedule.

DFA members Julia M. Wright and Spring Farrell comment on surviving the condensed fall term. dalgazette.com/news/dal-pro... #KeepDalStrong

A poster for the event, with images of the speaker and her book, iand the following text: “SPEAKER SERIES Dalhousie's Department of English and Creative Writing Program Retelling Robin Hood A Book Talk with Amy S. Kaufman, author of The Traitor of Sherwood Forest (Penguin 2025)”

Join us this Friday, Oct 3rd, for the first event in our 2025-26 Speaker Series! Amy S. Kaufman will discuss her debut novel, The Traitor of Sherwood Forest (Penguin 2025)! 3:45-5:00 in McCain 1198, reception to follow. All are welcome! @dalhousie.bsky.social @dallibraries.bsky.social

Thomas Moore and the Transatlantic, 1800–1840 Thomas Moore and the Transatlantic, 1800–1840

@juliamwright.bsky.social’s brilliant new book on Thomas Moore and the Transatlantic is now available! Visit our website to learn more and to purchase a copy for your library! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-thomas-...

screenshot of the webpage announcing that the 2026 recipients of the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Keats-Shelley Assoc of America are Professor Julia M. Wright and Professor Richard C. Sha (also pictured via headshots).

Congratulations to Dal English’s Professor @juliamwright.bsky.social on winning the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Keats-Shelley Association of America, alongside Professor Richard C. Sha! @dalhousie.bsky.social

Ripeness is All: Sarah Moss, Ripeness You must have a plum. Or three. Only they’re so ripe some of them burst when you pick them. Ripeness is all, I said. Men must endure their going hence even as their coming hither. I’d m…

Ripeness is all: at Novel Readings, I think about the various parts of Sarah Moss's latest novel Ripeness, which is as smart and meticulously crafted as all of her books.

We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 shortlist – six books that ‘are all brilliantly written and brilliantly human’.

➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025

💐📖 Budge Wilson and L.M. Montgomery are deeply connected. The two writers had each occupied, as young women, decades apart, the "Third-and-a-Half” room in Halifax Ladies’ College.

Now, Wilson will join Montgomery as another great Canadian writer whose work is honoured by a Project Bookmark plaque.

A Bookmark Plaque in Halifax, NS for Budge Wilson’s Story “The Leaving” Project Bookmark Canada recently announced that a Bookmark plaque will be unveiled in Halifax for Budge Wilson’s short story “The Leaving.” I’m the organizer of the Nova Scotia Reading Circle for P…

I’m excited about celebrating the unveiling of the Budge Wilson Bookmark plaque on the Dalhousie campus later this year. In “The Leaving,” a twelve-year-old girl from rural Nova Scotia visits Halifax & Dalhousie with her mother & catches a glimpse of the wider world & a future that could be hers.

Faded, Fatalistic & Aged But this slight depression—what is it? I think I could cure it by crossing the channel, & writing nothing for a week . . . But oh the delicacy & complexity of the soul—for, haven’t I …

"oh the delicacy & complexity of the soul—for, haven’t I begun to tap her & listen to her breathing after all?" - Woolf's diaries in 1924-25 show VW the artist growing in confidence even as VW the person still doubts and frets.

DEAL NEWS - Leonard Diepeveen’s memoir WHEN I COME BACK WE WILL TALK! Author and professor Leonard Diepeveen’s memoir WHEN I COME BACK WE WILL TALK, a son’s powerful and deeply moving examination of how six weeks of camp imprisonment in 1945 rippled through the followin...

Congratulations to Leonard Diepeveen, Emeritus George Munro Chair in Literature and Rhetoric on his forthcoming memoir, When I Come Back We Will Talk!

Going to have to give this to Hozier for his song “But the Wages” (only available live unfortunately but it’s a great listen on YouTube)

Hi all, @jasonhaslam.ca here. I run this account for our dept.

I had “welcome back!” posts locked in, but, FYI, I’ll be locked out by @dalhousie.bsky.social’s admin Aug 20, so we’ll be going quiet.

But to keep us active in absence, maybe quote this with a fave literary depiction of labour unrest?

A podcast featuring an interview with Prof. Asha Jeffers discussing her new book, *Against!
Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States*!

Mellon Foundation The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
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Today was challenging at work, but then I learned my Broadview Anthology of Science Fiction is on the website & ready for pre-order! You can see the contents!

I really hope people find this useful in the classroom, but also just enjoy exploring the stories—& poems! @broadviewpress.bsky.social #SFF

Hi! We're the Halifax Humanities Society, a non-profit organization that offers free, non-credit, university-level humanities courses to adults who are facing barriers to traditional education. Visit us at www.halifaxhumanitiessociety.ca to learn more about this life-changing initiative.

We’re big fans of Halifax Humanities @halhum101.bsky.social! Check them out!

Applications for Halifax Humanities 101 are now OPEN! If you love reading and discussing big questions, and are based in the Halifax Regional Municipality then this FREE 8-month great books course might be for you! Visit our website to learn more or to apply: halifaxhumanitiessociety.ca

August 1st marks Emancipation Day, a day to learn about and reflect on the contributions of people of African descent to Nova Scotia’s development, while recognizing the continuing legacies of historical enslavement and anti-Black racism.

we’re so ready

“The Shadow of Some Kind of Form”: Woolf on her Diary In my previous post I wondered whether we knew what Woolf’s wishes were for her diary: whether she imagined it as something others would someday read, or thought of it as—and hoped it would r…

"The shadow of some kind of form which a diary might attain to": in a wonderful passage, Woolf reflects on keeping a diary and learning "what it is one can make of this loose, drifting material of life."

Due to the forecasted rain, the flag raising and BBQ will now take place in the Weldon Law Building Atrium. See you there!

Call for Papers - Monster Fest 2025 Sun 31 Aug [ADT]: Call for Papers!! The Department of the Study of Religion and the Women and Gender Studies Programs at Saint Mary’s University are holding their first Monster Fest! We invite proposa...

Have you sent in a proposal for Monster Fest yet?
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