Please click here to read our latest Spotlight on Research, this month is about Professor Adam Barrows. carleton.ca/english/2025...

Sumac Literary Magazine is now accepting submissions for Issue 4! Please click here for more information or scan the QR code. hhttps://carleton.ca/english/event/winter-2026-sumac-literary-magazine-call-for-submissions/

Please join us in sending our warm and sincere congratulations to Prof. @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social, who was named on the Stanford-Elseveir list of the world’s most-cited scholars (for the second time!). Click here to read more: research.carleton.ca/2025/11/carl...

Professor Adam Barrows was recently interviewed by the Charlatan ahead of his upcoming show, Babette's Feast, at the Gladstone Theatre. Read more here: charlatan.ca/qa-professor...

In preparation for the 2025-2026 Munro-Beattie Lecture on October 15th (tonight!), students Sophie Drache and Erica Raley spoke with lecturer Ivan Coyote about trans relationships, censorship, and the power of storytelling in creating networks of resistance. carleton.ca/fass/2025/re...

The Department of English warmly invites faculty and graduate students in FASS to the Fall 2025 PhD Speaker Series lecture. We are thrilled to welcome as the speaker Dr. Sally Chivers (Trent University), author of The Silvering Screen: Old Age and Disability in Cinema (UTP, 2011).

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (@carletonfass.bsky.social) and the Department of English invite you to the 2025–26 Munro Beattie Lecture, "And Then This One Time: Sweet Stories for Hard Times", with writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote. Oct. 15 at 7pm at the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre.

Professor Micheline White was featured in a @carletonfass.bsky.social News Story about her recent public lecture on Katherine Parr and Henry VIII at the Marginalia and the Early Modern Women Writer symposium. Read more here: carleton.ca/fass/2025/dr...

Professor Stuart Murray has published new articles in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Empathy as Bug: The Rhetoric of MAGA’s “Battle”) and in The Conversation (From ‘God Emperor Trump’ to ‘St. Luigi,’ memes power the politics of feeling). Read more about them here: carleton.ca/english/2025...

Prof Barbara Leckie has developed a new podcast, CommonS Sense: Reclaiming common sense for a livable future. Dr Leckie and Dr Westheimer explore what counts as common sense through the lens of the commons broadly defined (shared resources, collective action, public conversation). shorturl.at/qIkNC

On August 7, Professor @michelinewhite.bsky.social will be giving a public lecture at the National Library of Australia in Canberra on Katherine Parr and Henry VIII. This is part of a symposium on Marginalia and the Early Modern Women Writer. For more information: www.library.gov.au/whats-on/eve...

Congrats to @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social for being awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant for a project titled “The Feminization of Publishing Work.” Thanks to this grant, Dr. Brouillette will be able to fund the work of graduate-student research assistants. carleton.ca/english/2025...

Congratulations to Sean Minogue on the publication of his first novel, Terminal Solstice (Turnstone Press, 2025)! Read more here: carleton.ca/english/2025...

Congratulations to Erin Forget on the publication of her first novel, The Unsung Song of a Wren (AOS Publishing, 2025)! Read more here: erinforget.ca/books/

Please click here to read the latest Spotlight on Research, this month is about Doctoral Candidate Sarah Dorward who has published in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada. carleton.ca/english/2025...

English Alum Ben Ladouceur was recently featured in a @carletonfass.bsky.social News Story. Click here to read more: carleton.ca/fass/cu-stor...

Please click here to read the latest Spotlight on Research, this month is about Contract Instructor John Coleman who has published a new article in Modern Fiction Studies. carleton.ca/english/2025...

Congrats to Prof Siobhain Bly Calkin, who has been awarded the Marston LaFrance Research Fellowship for 25/26! She will use the fellowship to complete her book manuscript: Narratives of Impassioned Things: Rethinking Relic Agency through Tales of the Lance of Antioch and the Cross of Jerusalem.

The Sumac Literary Magazine Launch Party is on April 9 at 6:30PM! Celebrate the release of Issue 3 with an evening of readings, creativity, and community. Contributors will share their work, and guests can connect over literature and light refreshments. RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/sumac-lite...

The Reading and Q&A with queer/feminist icon Eileen Myles is tomorrow! We hope you can join us for a performance of their work followed by a Q&A in Dunton Tower 2017 from 3:00-4:30 p.m. @carletonfass.bsky.social

Congratulations to Ben Ladouceur (B.A. English ’09 / M.A. English ’12) on the publication of his first novel, I Remember Lights (Book*hug Press, forthcoming April 2025)! Read more here: carleton.ca/english/2025...

Congrats to English Grad Matthew James Jones for the launch of his first novel! "A poet, novelist, storyteller and veteran whose novel Predators, Reapers and Deadlier Creatures is available from Double Dagger Press." @carletonfass.bsky.social Read more here: carleton.ca/fass/2025/ca...

The US govt’s attacks on trans/nonbinary lives continue to feed hate globally, including in Canada. CU English reaffirms its care & support for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, including our students, staff, and faculty. We stand in solidarity with you as valued and respected members of our community. ❤

Let’s give a warm Carleton welcome to queer/feminist icon Eileen Myles! Join us for a performance of their work followed by a Q&A, Friday March 28th, Dunton Tower 2017, 3:00-4:30 p.m. @carletonfass.bsky.social

The Showcase of Literary and Dramatic Arts is two weeks away! We hope you can join us in celebrating the creative talents of our English, Creative Writing, and Drama Studies students on March 18. Scan the QR code or visit our website to register: carleton.ca/english/cu-e...