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English professor Jane Toswell honours father with first donation to Western Libraries' rare books fund

The 15th-century Dominican Book of Hours containing prayers to Saint Apollonia is a remarkably complete manuscript and the first donation to Western Libraries’ new rare books fund, which supports the acquisition of materials for teaching and research across disciplines.

Meet Jaya Sinha, Western's new student writer-in-residence

Congratulations to Dr. Amala Poli, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, Risk(in)g Sleep: A Health Humanities Study of Sleep Paralysis

The Black Londoners Project, led by English and Writing studies professors Miranda Green-Barteet and Alyssa MacLean, continues to retrace the lives of 16 freedom seekers whose early presence helped shape the city's landscape

Megan McLennan named 2025 McIntosh Colloquium Recipient

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