With great sadness we announce the passing of Professor Michael R. Smith on Thursday, September 19th, 2024, just weeks after he had retired from the university. During the 50 years he spent at...
At the beginning of our summer internship with Poetry Matters we were told that we would be researching Dr. Barbara Althea Jones—a Trinidadian-born poet, plant geneticist, and professor at McGill...
On Thursday, October 31st, the Cundill History Prize announced that Kathleen Duval as the winner of the $75,000 Cundill History Prize for Native Nations: A Millenium in North America....
On September 13, 2024, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) announced the recipients of the 2024 Insight Grants and Insight Development Grants. Twenty-six faculty members and...
During the Fall 2024 semester, McGill’s Department of English welcomes Ann-Marie MacDonald as the 2024-2025 Richler Writer in Residence. MacDonald’s literary works include ten plays and four novels...
In her new book, Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America, Camille Owens explores a new history of manhood, race and hierarchy in American childhood, arguing that the...