The UWaterloo English annual awards ceremony will be live-streamed on Friday, March 26 at 2:00 p.m. Celebrate our students' achievements with us!
View the live stream on the English Department YouTube Channel.
Come to a reading and Q&A to celebrate the release of renowned Canadian-Caribbean poet Pamela Mordecai's collected poems, A Fierce Green Place, published by New Directions in 2022!
Join UW English professor Jennifer Harris and Jessica Vitalis as they discuss their paths to publication in the children’s book market and offer advice for new writers.
The Department of English Language and Literature is proud to announce “‘another, flickering world’: Petrocultures of the North Atlantic,” a talk by Dr. Derek Gladwin to take place Friday November 24, 3-5pm in Hagey Hall 373. All are welcome to attend.
Abstract:
This talk explores the relationship between oil and memory in the North Sea. Linking place-based poetry, film, and web-based media, this talk considers how Roseanne Watt’s filmpoem Sullom (2014) unsettles dominant histories of North Sea oil culture (petroculture) in the Shetland Isles by confronting environmental and spatial injustices. Sullom’s musical score offers an additional element that creates an anti-aesthetic, ironizing petrochemical advertisement campaigns produced by energy companies such as Suncor Energy’s See What Yes Can Do (2013). Watt’s filmpoem ultimately confronts the spaces of Sullom Voe, which is an enormous oil terminal on Shetland, through a combination of literary and visual narratives of place that reclaim ways of being in the world from the dominant petroculture in which they function.
English and Philosophy graduate students completing the Centre for Teaching Excellence's Certificate in University Teaching are holding teaching colloquia on Friday, January 5 and Friday, January 12, both from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. in HH 373.
The colloquia will feature research talks and interactive workshops on selected topics in post-secondary pedagogy.
In ways evocative of our own moment, word and image fought for supremacy across the pages of Enlightenment scientific books. Scientists strove, in a host of ways, to provide a direct access to nature, and with the advancement of copperplate engraving the printed image was increasingly seen as offering the reader/viewer a site of unmediated witness.
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