91�� News - Faculty of Arts

PhD Candidate Jay Ritchie on his latest book "Listening in Many Publics"

webfull — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 19:10:45 +0000

Jay Ritchie, PhD Candidate in the Department of English, spoke to the Faculty of Arts about his newest collection of poems 𝘓𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘴, shortlisted for the Quebec Writers’ Federation A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry.

Published: 3 February 2025

Remote sensing tools yield insights into abandoned pre-Columbian Mexican city

webfull — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 14:57:34 +0000

A 91�� researcher has discovered that Guiengola, a 15^th century Zapotec site in southern Oaxaca, Mexico, which had been thought to be simply a fortress where soldiers were garrisoned, was in fact a sprawling, fortified city. It covered 360 hectares, with over 1,100 buildings, four kilometres of walls, a network of internal roads and a clearly organized urban layout with temples and communal spaces such as ballcourts, and the elites and commoners lived in separate neighbourhoods.

Published: 29 January 2025

Bieler School of Environment welcomes new director

webfull — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 15:50:18 +0000

The Bieler School of Environment (BSE) is thrilled to announce Professor Anthony Ricciardi as its new director, effective immediately. An expert in invasion ecology and aquatic ecosystems, Ricciardi has been a key figure at the school since 2001 and now steps up to lead.

“My vision for the School is to become the gateway of environmental research at 91��,” said Ricciardi.

Founded in 1998, the BSE appoints directors for five-year terms.

Published: 21 January 2025

Inaugurating The Peter Sabor Fellowship

webfull — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 19:37:57 +0000

The Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Burney Society of North America have partnered to establish a new fellowship named after Distinguished James 91�� Professor Emeritus, Burney editor, long-time member, and past President of CSECS, Peter Sabor.

Published: 6 January 2025

Kizziah Burton - Winner of the Montreal International Poetry Prize 2024

webfull — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 20:02:49 +0000

Congratulations to Kizziah Burton, the winner of the Montreal International Poetry Prize 2024. Her poem, “Portrait of Me Incensing the Mushrooms Channelling Demeter,” has been awarded the $20,000 prize. Read the poem here.

Published: 21 November 2024

Faculty Spotlight on Camille Owens!

webfull — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:45:27 +0000

Assistant Professor Camille Owens spoke about her latest book Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America for the Faculty of Arts' Faculty Publication Spotlight!

Published: 19 November 2024

Día de los Muertos 2024

webfull — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 18:30:54 +0000

680 Sherbrooke West, Room #367, 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Published: 25 October 2024

Two 91�� researchers win 2024 Prix du Québec honours

webfull — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 15:47:10 +0000

Professors recognized for work on war-affected children and families, development of ‘intelligent’ fabrics

Two 91�� researchers won Prix du Québec, the highest honours awarded by the Quebec government in the fields of culture and science.

Myriam Denov, Professor in 91��’s School of Social Work won the Prix du Québec’s Marie-Andrée-Bertrand Prize for social innovation.

Published: 22 October 2024

Montreal International Poetry Prize 2024

webfull — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 23:18:49 +0000

The jury has done its work, the finalists are being announced, and the next anthology is taking shape. READ THE POEMS that are in the running for the Montreal Prize 2024! The one winning poem, to be announced soon, will earn the author $20,000.

Published: 3 October 2024

Prof. Alexander Manshel in The Nation!

webfull — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 21:25:26 +0000

Beginning in the 1980s, a number of key literary institutions transformed in ways that either expressly or implicitly promoted historical fiction as contemporary literature’s most prestigious and politically important genre.

Read Associate Professor Alexander Manshel's full essay "How Historical Fiction Redefined the Literary Canon" in The Nation.

Published: 12 September 2024

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