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2025 McIntosh Colloquium Recipient

Congratulations to Megan McLennan for her paper “‘[S]he came out of my brain’: Vilette and Endocryptic Identification,” a reading of preservative repression and the possibilities of female liberation in Charlotte Brontë’s novel.

Congratulations to Julia Sanders whose essay “The Composite Vision”: Acts of Imagination in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome” has been awarded the Sara Marie Jones Memorial Scholarship in English

Western introduces creative writing major

Writing Studies professor Aaron Schneider named to CBC Short Story Prize long list for "On a Tuesday in November"

Erica McKeen (BA'19, MA'20) longlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction

Karen Wen, second-year English Language and Literature student in the School for Advanced Studies in the Arts & Humanities, among five undergraduate students awarded Western Libraries Undergraduate Research Awards (WLURAs)

LISTEN as Professors Madeline Bassnett and Laurie Johnson discuss England’s Little Ice Age and the Weather Extremes in the Little Ice Age database on the Not Just the Tudors podcast