We rejoice at the news that Anthony Wall has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada. Dr. Wall is known internationally 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...

We are pleased to announce the publication of La voz y la memoria. Antología de la poesía chilena en Canadá by RIL Editores of Santiago, Chile. Co-edited by Luis Torres, our Department Head, and by writer Luciano Díaz, the poems collected in this anthology confront the personal and social obstacles related to exile and memory and, at the same time, describe and question the process of adaptation and integration in the land of asylum. More...