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Announcement on Relocation
The main department office and most members with offices housed in block D on the third floor in Craigie Hall have temporarily relocated to the fourth floor of the Education Tower. The main department office will be in EDT 416. Please click here to view details of members affected by the move.
Anthony Wall Elected to the Royal Society of Canada
We rejoice at the news that Anthony Wall has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada. Dr. Wall is known internati
onally for his theories of metaphor, dialogic criticism, visual semiotics and philosophical theories of imagery. Eighteenth century French portraits, showing a person reading a book, a letter or a musical score, hold special fascination for Dr. Wall for the messages they contain on the relationship between text and images. “It has to do with types of literature that talk about art, or sometimes art that has words in it. It’s the whole relationship between how literature does its work compared to how art does its work.” More...
Publication: Chez Nous
The second Canadian edition of Chez nous. Branche sur le monde francophone, co-authored by our PhD student Katherine Mueller, has just been released. Ms Mueller holds a BA (Hons) from Queen's University, and an M.A. and a B.Ed. from the University of Calgary. Her main research interests are Second Language Acquisition and Language Teaching Pedagogy. She was nominated for a Student Union Teaching Excellence Award in 2006, and is the recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Doctoral Scholarship for 2009-2010.
Emeritus Publishes his 40th Book
We are very proud to announce that two new publications of Dr. Serge Zaïtzeff have recently appeared in print, Más epistolarios rioplatenses de Alfonso Reyes and Obras VIII. Por tierras de Bolívar. With these works Dr. Zaïtzeff has reached his 40th published book. His first book, Crónicas escogidas de Rafael López, was published by Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico, in 1970. He has since published on numerous other writers, such as Julio Torri, Rubén Campos, Alfonso Reyes, Carlos Pellicer and José Juan Tablada.