Some more details on my new #ScienceFiction anthology, including one inclusion that I’m especially happy about (thanks in large part to Brooks Hefner’s terrific work in *Black Pulp*)

The final speaker series event of term is on Friday, Nov 28: Ronald Huebert, @dalhousie.bsky.social Professor Emeritus & Inglis Professor at King's, will be reading from his new novel, Loving John Donne! 3:45-5:00 p.m., McCain 1198, with reception after. All are welcome! @kingsbookstore.bsky.social

For Hal-Con 2025, we published a free zine featuring flash fiction pieces and excerpts by 13 Nova Scotian writers of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. For a limited time—from now until December 15—you can download and enjoy the PDF version of the zine! writers.ns.ca/announcement...

We are proud to celebrate nine new and renewed Canada Research Chairs whose research tackles everything from global health to ocean sustainability and agriculture:

Teresa Heffernan on how AI is shaped by fiction Morning File by @timbousquet.bsky.social

The final speaker series event of term is on Friday, Nov 28: Ronald Huebert, @dalhousie.bsky.social Professor Emeritus & Inglis Professor at King's, will be reading from his new novel, Loving John Donne! 3:45-5:00 p.m., McCain 1198, with reception after. All are welcome! @kingsbookstore.bsky.social

A very happy book release day to Katherine Crooks, whose first monograph, "At Home in the Cold: Domestic Culture in Arctic Exploration, 1890–1940" is out today! Katherine did her PhD with us, and is now a postdoctoral fellow at MSVU. Congratulations, Katherine! www.mqup.ca/Books/A/At-H...

Our Speaker Series returns Thurs. Nov. 20 with Sheheryar B. Sheikh, Donald Hill Family Postdoctoral Fellow, who will launch his new book, "The Post 9/11 Great American Novel: Fictional Perpetuations of White American Trauma and Islamophobia."! 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in 1198 McCain. All are welcome!

Our Speaker Series returns Thurs. Nov. 20 with Sheheryar B. Sheikh, Donald Hill Family Postdoctoral Fellow, who will launch his new book, "The Post 9/11 Great American Novel: Fictional Perpetuations of White American Trauma and Islamophobia."! 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in 1198 McCain. All are welcome!

Thank you @dal-english.bsky.social and The Dalhousie Review for publishing my short story "It Is What It Is." So incredible to be included in this prestigious publication and to be in good company with so many brilliant writers. 🥰 Check out their issues here: ojs.library.dal.ca/dalhousierev...

I continue to be so impressed with Mattea Roach. Here she is interviewing Ian McEwan about his new novel. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/b...

George Munro Professor Dr Julia M Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social and co-authors in Dalhousie News: @dalhousie.bsky.social @dalfaculty.bsky.social

i’ve got 300 pages of Schattenfroh to go and i’m going to crush it!

Any reading plans for reading week?? @kingsbookstore.bsky.social @dallibraries.bsky.social

Our speaker series this week moves to Thursday as we welcome Emma Fitzgerald—author, illustrator and educator—discussing two illustrated books, Two Crows and EveryBody's Different on EveryBody Street. All are welcome! Thursday Nov 6, 11:30-1:00, McCain 1198.

The print version of my anthology is out in a few weeks, but the electronic version is now available and on sale at the link. In the free preview (linked) you’ll also be able to read all of the front matter—including the futurisms and thematic tables of contents—and the full intro.

Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.

New from The Conversation, by @dickzoutman.bsky.social, @ryantennant.ca, @mark-ungrin.bsky.social, and myself: "The CSA's revised standard on respirators should help us all breathe easier." #OH&S #cdnhealth Simple tools can have big benefits--when we use them.

“Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go or what you will do;” —from Marianne Moore, “Baseball and Writing”

It’s a full and haunted house for our Varmania celebration today!! Congratulations to all the winners!!

This is always a fun event!

I recently had an interview with CBC Radio to discuss the cultural function of zombies. You can check it out here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Friday, Oct. 31st, please join us for our annual Varmania celebration, announcing the winners of our Gothic literature contest (named in honour of former colleague & Gothic scholar, Dr. Devendra Varma)! The ceremony begins at 4:00 pm in McCain 1198, with reception to follow. @dalgazette.bsky.social

On a Very Special Episode of @onebrightbook.bsky.social I’m joined by @rohanmaitzen.bsky.social to talk about William Makepeace Thackeray’s wonderful VANITY FAIR onebrightbook.com/2025/10/28/b...

‘Come with an open mind, and know that it’s going to be fun’: The AfterWords Literary Festival Morning File by @philmoscovitch.bsky.social

Dr. Collier-Jarvis is giving a keynote next week as part of MonsterFest, called Too Ghoul for School - Colonial Gazing & Monstrosity in Rhymes for Young Ghouls. This is open to the public: halifax.bibliocommons.com/events/68e41...

Join us this Friday for our annual PhD Colloquium featuring PhD candidates Emily Cann and Aisha Asha Rahman In room 1198 of the McCain building, starting at 3:45, with a reception to follow. All welcome!

"Resist the AI hype and question the uncritical adoption of this technology," Dr. @tjheffernan.bsky.social of @smuenglish.bsky.social warns in her latest commentary piece for @halifaxexaminer.ca. #SMUEnglish #OpEd #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

The Department for the Study of Religion invites all to a public presentation on Sunday, Oct. 26, "Muslim and Jew: A Love Story" at St. Andrew’s United Church, 5:30-7:30 pm. The speakers are Dr. Syed Adnan Hussain of SMU and Dr. Eva Mroczek of @dalclassics.bsky.social. More info: loom.ly/t-4GdqE

A story about the Newcomer Reading Club, co-founded by Dal English professor Rohan Maitzen @rohanmaitzen.bsky.social! You can also learn more about the club here: halifax.bibliocommons.com/events/68e41... @dalhousie.bsky.social @dallibraries.bsky.social @halhum101.bsky.social

Upcoming events! Friday, Oct 17, in lieu of our Speakers' Series, join us at King's President's Lodge for the launch of Shelter in Text: Essays on Dwelling and Refuge. Editors Dr. Myra Bloom and Dr. Kasia Van Shaik will be there, as well as several dept members who have essays in the volume! 1/2

Book Launch tonight with Dal English member Sue Goyette! Join Sue, with guests Stephanie Domet and Seán Kennedy! Oct 09, 7-9 p.m., at The Bus Stop Theatre!!

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025

No Speaker-Series event this Friday 🥺, but you can see the nearly complete list of this term’s events below! A few more will likely be added soon, too! @dallibraries.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social

In the October issue of @reviewcanada.bsky.social I review Katherine Ashenburg’s “Margaret’s New Look”

The CFP for ACCUTE 2026 is now available. Will you be attending this year? accute.ca/wp-content/u...

October 1 marks the anniversary of the 1752 Treaty of Friendship and Peace between the Mi’kmaq Nation and the British Crown. The purpose of Treaty Day is to promote public awareness about Mi’kmaw culture and heritage for all Nova Scotians. #TreatyDay #NovaScotia #MikmaqNation

DFA members Julia M. Wright and Spring Farrell comment on surviving the condensed fall term. dalgazette.com/news/dal-pro... #KeepDalStrong

Join us this Friday, Oct 3rd, for the first event in our 2025-26 Speaker Series! Amy S. Kaufman will discuss her debut novel, The Traitor of Sherwood Forest (Penguin 2025)! 3:45-5:00 in McCain 1198, reception to follow. All are welcome! @dalhousie.bsky.social @dallibraries.bsky.social

@juliamwright.bsky.social’s brilliant new book on Thomas Moore and the Transatlantic is now available! Visit our website to learn more and to purchase a copy for your library! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-thomas-...

Congratulations to Dal English’s Professor @juliamwright.bsky.social on winning the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Keats-Shelley Association of America, alongside Professor Richard C. Sha! @dalhousie.bsky.social

Ripeness is all: at Novel Readings, I think about the various parts of Sarah Moss's latest novel Ripeness, which is as smart and meticulously crafted as all of her books.

We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 shortlist – six books that ‘are all brilliantly written and brilliantly human’. ➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025

💐📖 Budge Wilson and L.M. Montgomery are deeply connected. The two writers had each occupied, as young women, decades apart, the "Third-and-a-Half” room in Halifax Ladies’ College. Now, Wilson will join Montgomery as another great Canadian writer whose work is honoured by a Project Bookmark plaque.

I’m excited about celebrating the unveiling of the Budge Wilson Bookmark plaque on the Dalhousie campus later this year. In “The Leaving,” a twelve-year-old girl from rural Nova Scotia visits Halifax & Dalhousie with her mother & catches a glimpse of the wider world & a future that could be hers.

"oh the delicacy & complexity of the soul—for, haven’t I begun to tap her & listen to her breathing after all?" - Woolf's diaries in 1924-25 show VW the artist growing in confidence even as VW the person still doubts and frets.

Congratulations to Leonard Diepeveen, Emeritus George Munro Chair in Literature and Rhetoric on his forthcoming memoir, When I Come Back We Will Talk!

Going to have to give this to Hozier for his song “But the Wages” (only available live unfortunately but it’s a great listen on YouTube)