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The Department of English at McGill University is home to graduate and undergraduate programs united in their attention to creative works spanning literature, theatre, performance, cinema, television and visual arts, to name a few.
The Department of English is pleased to announce its 2025 PhD Colloquium! PhD 3 students in English will be sharing their current research with the McGill community!

Thursday 4 December
McGill University
Arts West-120
9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

For the presentation schedule, go to mcgill.ca/english
November 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The McGill Department of English Drama and Theatre Program presents Tom Fowler's play 𝙠𝙖𝙩𝙯𝙚𝙣𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙠, a darkly comic story about social inequality and upheaval.

𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟗-𝟐𝟏 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝟐𝟔-𝟐𝟖, 𝟕:𝟑𝟎 𝐏𝐌
𝐌𝐨𝐲𝐬𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐞

Tickets are free!: www.eventbrite.com/e/katzenmusi...

#studenttheater #performance
November 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Just learned that WRITING BACKWARDS has won Narrative's 2026 Perkins Prize, "awarded to the book making the most significant contribution to the study of narrative in a given year." A true honor, especially given the prize's past recipients!

www.thenarrativesociety.org/barbara-and-...
October 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Join the Department of English for a special screening of the film “Lovely Day”, an adaptation of the autobiographical novel “Mille secrets mille dangers” by McGill professor Alain Farah, directed by Philippe Falardeau.

Hope to see you there!
On Nov. 4th, at 7:00PM, the Cinéma du Musée will offer a special presentation of “Lovely Day”, a film by Philippe Falardeau, based on the 2022 Governor General’s Prize-winning novel “Mille secrets mille dangers” by McGill professor Alain Farah.

Tickets here: cinemacinema.ca/fr/films/lov...
November 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Join the Department of English for the Fall 2025 Open House at McGill University!

Come and chat with English faculty members and students, and learn about our different streams, programs, course offerings, community and more!

Saturday, October 25
10 am–4 pm
Arts Building Lobby
853 Sherbrooke St. W
October 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
For its 25th anniversary, Porte Parole, in partnership with the Department of English and the Centaur Theatre, is hosting a special public conversation bringing together three leading voices in contemporary theatre: Annabel Soutar, Emily Mann, and Robert Lepage!!!

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Emily Mann and Annabel Soutar in Conversation - Porte Parole
A Porte Parole 25th anniversary event on October 6th 2025 at the Centaur Theatre. Annabel Soutar will be joined by Emily Mann, a trailblazer of documentary theatre, in a conversation moderated Robert ...
porteparole.org
September 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The Department of English is thrilled to host Associate Professor 𝗙𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿 (University of Oregon) for her talk "𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟭𝟵𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝘆: 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘁 𝗝𝗮𝗰𝗼𝗯𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗝𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻."

September 26, 2-4 pm
McGill Arts Building, Rm 160
853 Sherbrooke W

All are welcome!
September 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Michiganders! I'll be giving a talk at MSU next Tuesday afternoon. If you're interested in "High School English and the Making of American Readers," I'll hope to see you there!
September 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Congratulations to Professor Nathalie Cooke on her election as a Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada!

Professor Cooke was elected a Fellow for her outstanding contribution to the field of Canadian literary food studies.

rsc-src.ca/en/news/roya...
September 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Professor Cooke's latest book, "Tastes and Traditions: A Journey Through Menu History", draws on centuries of menus to reveal how they bear witness to evolving notions of taste, health, and individual and collective identity.

Learn more!👇
www.mcgill.ca/english/chan...

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August 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Read "How Shakespeare can help us overcome loneliness in the digital age" by PhD Candidate in the Department of English, Marie Trotter and Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies Paul Yachnin in the Conversation Canada. @mcgillenglish.bsky.social

theconversation.com/how-shakespe...
How Shakespeare can help us overcome loneliness in the digital age
While our culture is very different from Shakespeare’s London, his plays — and those by others — still carry the potential to bring people together and help us think deeply about our shared experience...
theconversation.com
August 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
As part of her course, ENGL391: Girlhood Cinemas, 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 created an assignment that allowed students to communicate their ideas through girlhood aesthetics.
#Feminism #Pedagogy #Zine

Read Amanda Greer's post via the link below!

teachingblog.mcgill.ca/2025/04/10/z...
Zine-making 101: Feminist pedagogy through creative assessments
When I developed the syllabus for my course, ENGL391: Girlhood Cinemas, I wanted to ensure that girlhood was taken seriously as an experience directly impacting visual culture. Too often, the aesth…
teachingblog.mcgill.ca
April 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Associate Professor Alexander Manshel's publication 𝙒𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘽𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙨: 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙁𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝘾𝙖𝙣𝙤𝙣 (Columbia University Press, 2023) has been released as an audiobook! 🔊

💥Available on Apple Books and Audible!💥
UP WITH ACADEMIC AUDIOBOOKS! Thanks to @columbiaup.bsky.social, University Press Audiobooks, and narrator extraordinaire Mark Sando, WRITING BACKWARDS is now available as an audiobook!
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‎Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon (Literature Now) (Unabridged)
‎Fiction · 2025
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April 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
This Thursday April 17, please join Poetry Matters for “Scenes of Attunement”

This poetry reading is featuring Christopher Buddle, Joseph Kidney, and Willow Loveday Little.

When: Thursday, April 17, 5-7pm
Where: The Yellow Door, 3625 rue Aylmer

Free and open to the public!
April 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
PhD Candidate in the Department of English, Iris Pintiuta, is featured in the McGill Reporter! Pintiuta speaks about the impetus behind creating Montreal's first trans film festival, Exposures.

Read the full article: bit.ly/MontrealFirs...
April 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
We are overjoyed to be welcoming curator, art historian, cultural critic and visual artist 𝗗𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶 for a talk on performance art in the city, "Street Actions: Women Performing in Montreal and Toronto in the 1970s."

𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗡 and 𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘?
April 2, 2025, 2-4 pm
680 Sherbrooke West, Rm. 1041
April 1, 2025 at 7:19 PM