English Department Professor wins Contribution to Research award.  

The Department of English Nominations committee submitted Dr. Parkes name for the research he has done while completing his newly published bookChildren's Literature and Capitalism: Fictions of Social Mobility in Britain, 1850-1914 (published by Palgrave Macmillan).

This book explores the changing relationship between the child and capitalist society in the works of some of the most important authors of the Victorian and Edwardian periods. 

For more details on his research or his book please contact:

Dr. Chris Parkes, Associate Professor

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chris.parkes@lakeheadu.ca

Friday October 18, 2013

Dr. Daniel Hannah publishes his book Henry James, Impressionism, and the Public (published by Ashgate)

Friday October 8, 2013

Dr. Anna Guttman publishes her book Writing Indians and Jews: Metaphorics of Jewishness in South Asian Literature (published by Palgrave Macmillan) 

February 28, 2013

Dr. Scott Pound, Associate Professor of English, is a founding co-editor with Dr. Darren Wershler of Concordia University of a new peer-reviewed, open access scholarly journal devoted to the study of media, cultural, and poetics. The journal is called AMODERN and can be accessed online at amodern.net.