Department of English, Dalhousie U

A poster with pictures of a dozen people, below which is the following text: Creative Writing Faculty & TA Reading Friday March 6th 3:30pm - 5pm, McCain 1198 followed by conversation and snacks in the English Department lounge short readings from: Shero Sheheryar, Allison LaSorda, Eric Schmaltz, Johanna Gibson, Erin Wunker, Bart Vautour, Emily Cann, Heather Jessup, Rebecca Babcock, Benjamin Bush Anderson, Nic Paquette, Daryl Bruce ALL ARE WELCOME! Come meet the faculty, chat with current creative writing students, eat snacks!

This Friday, March 6, our Speaker Series will host readings by a number of our Creative Writing faculty and teaching assistants/grad students. All are welcome! Details on the poster (and in alt text).
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Please join us for this discussion with @elamin.bsky.social, hosted by @dal-english.bsky.social chair, Dr. Erin Wunker!

Next Friday! Join us for an in-person conversation with @elamin.bsky.social about his memoir and our Dal Reads 2025-2026 selection Son of Elsewhere. Friday, February 27, 1:00-2:30 pm, room 264 in the Wallace McCain Learning Commons: bit.ly/elamin-2026

Elamin abdelmahmoud book Son of Elsewhere

Once every year our Dalhousie Libraries puts on "DalReads" to showcase Canadian authors. Books are free at any library on any campus until supplies run out this year its CBC's very own Elamin Abdelmahmoud. @elamin.bsky.social will be on campus Feb 27 1-2:30 in Wallace McCain learning commons

Making gradual progress on The World of Virginia Woolf, which Maddie gave me for Christmas. Can you see (parts of) Mrs Dalloway with her flowers? And there's EBB lurking on Wimpole Street.

Work in American Studies? Have a wide, interdisciplinary focus? Please consider joining us for the Canadian Association for American Studies conference here in Halifax. #CFP here:

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🔬 "Designer Babies: The Science, the Tech and the Crib" 🚼 Dr. Françoise Baylis, President of @src-rsc.bsky.social, will deliver the 2026 Marshall Lecture in Public Philosophy, presented by #SMUPhilosophy. All are welcome to attend on Thursday, March 12, 7-9 pm in Halifax. Learn more: loom.ly/WLyJ-YA

Congratulations to English and Creative Writing honours candidate and Kings student, Lauren Sooksom, and to alum Devarshi Shah (BSc with a minor in Creative Writing) on being finalists in the prestigious McCall MacBain scholarship competition! @dalhousie.bsky.social

In addition to being a King’s student, McCall MacBain finalist Lauren Sooksom is also an honours student in @dal-english.bsky.social and Creative Writing—congratulations to Lauren and all the finalists!

This Valentine's Day 💞 cuddle up with your favourite hot drink and a FREE Broadview e-Book! 📜

Who will you take on a blind date? Comment your choice of companion down below 👇️

The first 10 people to leave a comment will win a free book! Good luck 🥳

Revolutionary Roots: the global black liberation struggle and the making of modern African Nova Scotia

Feb. 26, 1-3pm at the North Memorial Public Library: our annual African Heritage Month lecture, featuring Dr Isaac Saney on the "Revolutionary Roots" of African Nova Scotia's connections to global Pan-African and Black Power movements

Congratulations Dr. Foster!!!!

Happening now!

Also this Friday, PhD Candidate Gavin Foster will defend his thesis, “‘I Do Not Desire Healing’: Grief as Identity in Medieval(ist) Literatures.”

Go Gavin! You’ve got this! @dalgradstudies.bsky.social

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Our speaker series this week features PhD Candidate Helen Pinsent @heleninwords.bsky.social, presenting “There [Should] Be Blood: Genre, Ethics, and Good Death in Contemporary Horror
Television.” Friday, Jan 30, 3:45-5:00 in McCain 1198. All are welcome!

Today!!

The CFP for CAAS 2026 at Dalhousie University is now up! @dal-english.bsky.social
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Our speaker series is back for 2026! This Friday, Jan. 23, please help us welcome Emma Kuzmyk & Addy Strickland, speaking about their book *This Wasn’t on the Syllabus: Stories from the Front Lines of Campus Activism Against Sexualized Violence* McCain 1198, 3:45 - 5:00. @dalhousie.bsky.social

(Reposting with the actual picture). Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social receiving one of this year’s Keats-Shelley Association’s Distinguished Scholars Awards.

Awards Reception MLA 2026 — K-SAA Join us for a festive reception that brings everyone together. This gathering will feature recognition of our award recipients, including encomia and brief remarks from the honorees, a celebratory atm...

If you’re at #MLA26, you can register (for free) and attend the Keats-Shelley Association reception where @dal-english.bsky.social professor Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social and others will be receiving awards:

This Term In My Classes: Breadth, Depth, & Reflections Another January, another new term! I’ve got two classes this term of two quite different kinds. The first is our second-year survey course British Literature After 1800, so its aim is to cove…

It's a crazy time in the world, and it has been a rough year at work; as my classes get underway for another term, I find myself thinking about the changes I have seen in 30 years of teaching and cherishing the opportunity to sit around a table with my students.

Oooh! What are your planned holiday reads?

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Congrats to Julia M. Wright, DFA Member! She received the CAUT Dedicated Service Award in 2023. Last night, DFA held its first in-person social event in more than 2 years, and finally presented Julia with her award. Thanks, Julia, for your continued dedication to DFA and our members. #KeepDalStrong

Congrats to DFA Members Jason Haslam, Kiran Banerjee and Kassandra Luciuk for receiving the 2025 CAUT Dedicated Service Award! Their commitment, focus and energy during DFA's recent month-long lockout was outstanding. Awards presented at the DFA Solidarity Party held last night. #keepdalstrong

Oh love! Lily King’s Heart the Lover plays out on a knife edge: on one side lie the hazards of cliché and sentimentality; on the other, the possibilities of

In the latest @thetls.bsky.social I review Lily King's Heart the Lover

Starting soon!!

Absolute Units podcast - The Museum of English Rural Life Come for the big sheep. Stay for the history of rural England and its people.

Our newest episode of Absolute Units is here!

Join us and special guests Prof Paddy Bullard (Uni of Reading) and Isabel Hughes (The MERL) as we explore Jane Austen, farming, breeding, and wrong'uns.

Also, not one but two poems get read in this episode!

merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

The cover of the Department of English Honours Colloquium program, with a stylized sun and other graphics.

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Please join us Thursday (Dec 11) for our annual Honours Colloquium, where English & Creative Writing Honours students will present in-progress thesis research! 9:45 a.m.-3:30 p.m., McCain 2130, with lunch provided in the Dept lounge! @dalhousie.bsky.social

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Congratulations to our colleague Billy Johnson on the publication of his monograph, *Publishing Place: Transatlantic Modernity and Periodical Culture on Canada’s East Coast*! @dalhousie.bsky.social @dallibraries.bsky.social @dalhistory.bsky.social

. @dalhousie.bsky.social graduate students are invited to join Dal English postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Shero Sheikh, for an OpenThink workshop on “Revision Decisions”! Dec. 4, 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., hybrid. RSVP at the link: