Graduate
MA '24 student Joel Wheeler, who recently won the Mairi Riddel Memorial Book Prize for his essay, “In the Woods and On the Waves: Anti-Gothic Acoustics and Active Instruments in "The Mysteries of Udolpho"
Congratulations to MA candidate Lucas Simpson for his new article, “Prayer Book Communion and The Spanish Tragedy” accepted for publication in the very prestigious journal Renaissance and Reformation. The article will be available to read this spring.
Read the new article by PhD candidate Lucie Kotesovska, “Immanent Spirituality and Legitimacy of Poetry in Seamus Heaney’s ‘Squarings’ in the pages of Postgraduate Studies (https://community.dur.ac.uk/postgraduate.english/ojs/index.php/pgenglish/article/view/282)
PhD student and poet, Saba Pakdel, has been invited to a min-interview by Thomas Whyte at Poetry Mini. Whyte interviews contemporary poets and posts their responses in five parts that appear weekly on his blog at (http://poetryminiinterviews.blogspot.com/2021/10/saba-pakdel-part-one.html). The first part of mini-interview with Saba is now live on Poetry Mini weblog and Twitter account (https://twitter.com/poetryminiQ).
Read the new article by PhD Candidate Stephanie J. Lahey, “On the Origin and Provenance of Victoria, McPherson Library, Doc.Brown.4: Sir Thomas Mowbray’s Care of Newnham Priory,” in a special issue on medieval manuscripts in Canada for the journal _Florilegium_ 33 (2019): 63–91. James Kendrick and Lynnea Ness (MAs, 2016) have co-authored a piece with Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin in the same issue, featuring work developed through their courses in Special Collections and Archives.
Read the new article by recent PhD graduate Yan Tang, "Atmospheric Violence: Samuel Beckett's Aesthetics of Respiration," featured in journal _LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory_ 30.2 (2019): 103-119.
In the Department of English, distinguished faculty help both MA and PhD students gain advanced expertise in literary studies and achieve their research and professional goals.
Explore our MA and PhD programs, courses, Graduate Handbook, and the links below to find out more.
My time as a graduate student in UVic’s Department of English was one of immense personal and professional growth. I found myself welcomed by world-class faculty, challenged by opportunities to build community both within and beyond my cohort, and enriched by intellectual crosswalks between the department and other segments of campus. In particular, the deeply collegial environment of my peer group inspired me to seek out global communities through scholarship: at conferences, through grant opportunities, and with single and multi-authored publications. To the extent that UVic's island setting offers students opportunities to relax, exercise, and connect with the natural world, it equally invites students to think and work beyond its visible borders.