Aspiring writers, take note! In the wake of her recent longlisting for the 2023 Nonfiction Prize, Prof. Collier Jarvis’s advice about writing from personal experience was just featured on CBC.
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Have you ever wished you could express difficult concepts more clearly to a range of different audiences? This class will show you how. Remember that this is a cross-listed COMM and WRIT course, so it can count towards the Writing Minor.
Krista Collier-Jarvis, assistant professor (and former BA student!) in the MSVU English department, was recently longlisted for the prestigious CBC Nonfiction Prize. Her book, A Micmac Memoir, was one of only 38 entries out of more than 2000 to reach this stage. Congratulations to Prof. Collier-Jarvis on this amazing achievement!
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Hosted by: MSVU English Department and the MSVU English Society
When: Wednesday, March 29th, 2023 from 5-8 pm
Where: Good Robot Brewing Company, 2736 Robie Street, the Mousetrap
To present: The Symposium is an event to showcase the creative writing of Mount students. Anyone from any program at any level is welcome to share their work. It can be something you wrote for a creative writing class or your own personal work. All we ask is that you keep your presentation under 10 minutes so that we have time to accommodate everyone. If you would like to present, please email hayley.bone@msvu.ca with your name and the title of your piece by Sunday, March 26th.
To bring: Admission is $10 cash at the door and includes a drink ticket and appetizers. As the English Society takes on larger-scale events, we must also expand our sources of funding. All funds collected from Symposium admission will go toward offsetting the cost of this and future events. If the admission fee is a barrier for you, please let us know at hayley.bone@msvu.ca, or via the English Society’s Instagram account @msvu_englishsociety, and we will be happy to make accommodations.
Transportation: Good Robot is a short bus ride from MSVU on the 8. Alternatively, students might be interested in arranging carpools from MSVU to the event.
Accessibility: The Mousetrap space at Good Robot is accessible by a staircase. Gender-neutral washrooms are available.
Thank you: This event is supported by the MSVU Alumni Association. Thank you!
“Creepy Little Girl” appears in Gothic Studies volume 25 issue number 1, 2023 on pages 1-19.
The Creepy Little Girl is a subset of the Gothic Child and as such, she works differently from the evil child or the monstrous child in contemporary Gothic. Unlike the contradictions inherent in representations of the evil child whose presence is disruption and destruction, or the monstrous child who is dangerous, the Creepy Little Girl serves as a function of the Gothic: she is that figure through which the narrative is unsettled and the Gothic intrudes. The Creepy Little Girl is defined by her hypergendered position in the narratives in which she appears: as both ‘little’ and very much as ‘girl’. The little girl’s presence in contemporary gothic narratives destabilises the familiar, the domestic, and the cute and that is the basis for the gothic unease that she engenders.
Join us! February 16th at 4:30pm in SAC 407/409. Open to the public.
Our speakers include Hayley Bone, Sophia Godsoe, and Sam Rooney. Let’s join as they share their research!
Join John Muckelbauer, Nate DeProspo, and Nathaniel Street as they continue the challenge to think with texts they’ve read dozens of times!
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Following a hearty process and much dedication, Dr. Smol has created and launched the website Tolkien and Alliterative Verse. The purpose of the website on the page is: “This site is designed to be a resource for anyone who wants to study Tolkien’s alliterative verse or to understand medieval English alliterative metre.” The link to the site is:
Dr. Smol is an accomplished Tolkien scholar, having published widely on Tolkien and currently serving on the editorial board of the Mallorn, the peer-reviewed journal of the Tolkien Society. Dr.Smol’s assistants in this endeavor include second-year Dalhousie doctoral student Gavin Foster and MSVU alums Jordan Audas and MacKenzie Moore. Funding for the site includes the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant and Mount Saint Vincent University grants.
The logo was designed by Gavin Foster (B.A. Hons MSVU 2020; M.A. Dalhousie 2021). Gavin is currently a PhD student at Dalhousie. Gavin’s explanation of the thinking behind the design can be found on the website’s blog here: https://tolkienalliterative.ca/2022/12/15/some-thoughts-on-site-design/.
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