 "Restoration Sex." Dr. Alison Conway reflects on the impact of the sexual revolution on emerging female authors during 1660-1700. 

Since starting her position at the Dept. of English and Writing Studies, Dr. Conway has been named to the USC Teaching Honour Roll on numerous occasions. She has won numerous teaching awards including the Marilyn Robinson Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Bank of Nova Scotia, UWO Alumni Association and the University Students’ Council Award of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. In 2012, Professor Conway won the Graham and Gale Wright Distinguished Scholar Award. 




"Resoration Sex" by Alison Conway, Western University English

 "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" In this mini-lecture, Dr. Christopher Keep takes up the central question invoked by Philip K. Dick's classic science fiction novel, to reflect on the what it means to read and think critically about literature.

Dr. Christopher Keep has received the Edward G. Pleva Award for Excellence in Teaching (2010-11), the Bank of Nova Scotia, UWO Alumni Association, and University Students’ Council Award of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2002-03), and he has been named to the University Students’ Council Teaching Honor Roll in every year he has taught at the undergraduate level.

"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Christopher Keep, Western University English

Dr. Faflak considers Romantic feeling, imagination and madness in this mini-lecture.

Dr. Faflak is a recipient of the Arts and Humanities Teaching Excellence Award. Author of Romantic Psychoanalysis and co-editor of numerous volumes on a range of topics in the field of Romanticism, Dr. Faflak's research achievements have earned him distinction as a Western Faculty Scholar. He currently serves as Director of the newly launched School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities.




"Romantic Feeling, Imagination and Madness" Joel Faflak, Western University English

Leanne Hord & Kristen Nadal - cemetery assignment for SASAH, Western University, London ON

SASAH Cemetery Project: Leanne Hord & Kristen Nadal

The Public Humanities at Western and the Department of English & Writing Studies Present: An Evening with Gary Barwin and David Lee

Taking place as part of the Culture of Leadership class in the Department of English, we are pleased to bring an Evening of Poetry and Improvisational Jazz, featuring Western's Writer-in-Residence Gary Barwin and Double Bassist David Lee. 

VibraFusionLab 
355 Clarence St. 
9 March 2015 6pm - 8pm

GARY BARWIN is a writer, composer, multimedia artist, and educator and the author of seventeen books of poetry and fiction as well as books for both teens and children. His work has been widely performed, broadcast, anthologized and published nationally and internationally. His latest book is Moon Baboon Canoe (poetry, Mansfield Press, 2014.) and he has just completed a novel, Yiddish for Pirates.

He received a PhD in music composition, a BA, BFA and a BEd and taught middle school and high school for nearly ten years. He has taught writing at McMaster University and at Mohawk College, to street-involved youth, and at Offcentre Arts and Creativity Workshops. He was the Fall 2013 Young Voices eWriter-in-Residence at the Toronto Public Library. Barwin is winner of the 2013 City of Hamilton Arts Award (Writing), the Hamilton Poetry Book of the Year 2011, and co-winner of 2011 Harbourfront Poetry NOW competition, the 2010 bpNichol chapbook award, and the KM Hunter Artist Award. 

He has received major grants from the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council for his work. His YA novel, Seeing Stars, was shorted listed for both the Crimewriters of Canada Arthur Ellis Award as well as the Canadian Library Association YA Book of Year, and his picturebook, The Magic Mustache, was chosen as a “Best Bet” by Macleans. 

DAVID LEE is a writer and double bassist. Originally from BC, he spent years in the Toronto art scene and on BC's Sunshine Coast, and currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario. Wolsak & Wynn recently published a newly revised edition of David's critically-acclaimed jazz book The Battle of the Five Spot: Ornette Coleman and the New York Jazz Field, and in spring 2015, if all goes well, they will bring the Cthulhu mythos to the mean streets of modern-day Hamilton with his YA novel The Midnight Games. In 2012 Tightrope Books of Toronto published David’s first novel, Commander Zero.

An Evening with Gary Barwin and David Lee

Jake Barnes' translation of a passage from Beowulf is like nothing you have ever heard before. Jake, a Western Medieval Studies and Music student, chose to breathe some new life into the epic poem by interpreting it through the music of the popular band, The Lumineers. Based on the band's recent award-winning hit "Ho Hey", Jake's recording is a wonderfully creative interpretation of both the medieval text, and the course assignment from Prof. Toswell's Medieval Studies 1020 course. All music performed and recorded by Jake Barnes, 2013.

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