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Prizes, Prizes, Prizes at MSVU Academic Awards 2024!

At this year’s MSVU Academic Awards Social, which took place Tuesday, 9 April, the following students were recognized for their achievements in English:

Ariel MacKinnon was awarded the Sister Marie Agnes Prize, which is awarded by the Mount Saint Vincent Alumni Association to the graduating English major with the highest academic average.

Redford Ingram was awarded the Beryl Rowland Book Prize, awarded annually to the student who achieves the highest average in English.

Elizabeth MacKay and Georgia Wachter were co-recipients of the Literary Prize, established by the Halifax-Dartmouth City Council of Beta Sigma Phi in memory of Mrs. Agnes Macdonald, alumna and past member of the Board of Governors of Mount Saint Vincent University.

Congratulations to all of you on your successes!

MSVU English Students Soar at AAUEC 2024

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Two weeks ago, on 22-24 March, six MSVU students participated in the Annual Atlantic Undergraduate English Conference (AAUEC), which took place at Université de Moncton in New Brunswick this year. Students from over a dozen universities, including the Mount, presented on various topics and on texts ranging from the medieval period to the present. The six MSVU English Department representatives, once again, did a fantastic job with their contributions, presenting well-argued and sophisticated academic essays and well-crafted and poignant creative works:

Academic

Natalie Freeman: Bodies, Bodies, Bodies: Sexualized Mummies and British Futurity in Grant Allen’s “My New Year’s Eve Among the Mummies”
Michael Gillis: Masculinity, Militarization, and Machismo in a Porous Translation of “The Battle of Maldon”
Emma Henderson: Inventing Desire: Deleuzian Becomings in Nicole Brossard’s Mauve Desert
Jenna Ryall: Turning Back the Feet of Time: Time as a Threat to Empire in “The Mummy’s Foot”

Creative

Elizabeth MacKay: Stroking Midnight
Georgia Wachter: Philips Mountain

Our presenters also handled themselves exceptionally well in the question periods, providing answers with poise and asking thoughtful and perceptive questions of their colleagues.

Congratulations to all six students, and thank you for helping to showcase the talent at the Mount!

English Honours Colloquium 2024

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Want to hear our Honours students present their fascinating research? Are you an English student wondering whether Honours is right for you and want to see what it’s all about? Or do you just want to hang out with amazing people on a Wednesday afternoon? Join us for the Honours Colloquium!