2013

June 3, 2014 | Western News
'Counterfeit' child shows more than meets the eye
Kids aren't as innocent as they seem, says Steven Bruhm. Bruhm, a professor in the Department of English and Writing Studies, recently published The Counterfeit Child in a special issue of English Studies in Canada titled Childhood and Its Discontents, edited by Nat Hurley.

May 17, 2014 | The Gazette
Faces of Western: Western student interns at Cannes
A Western student has landed a job working as an intern at the biggest film festival in the world. Alissa Chater, a fourth-year film studies student, will be bumping shoulders with at the Cannes International Film Festival this month.

April 3, 2014 | The Gazette
From film critic to festival director
Western graduate, Gazette alumnus and current director of the Toronto International Film Festival, Cameron Bailey, delivered a lecture on the development of a global brand for TIFF. It has been a long journey for Bailey, who started writing movie reviews for the Gazette in the 1980s. Bailey remembers the experience at The Gazette and how it got him where he is today.

March 27, 2014 | Western News
Tolkien translation of Beowulf adds little – beyond cash
Nearly a century ago, J.R.R. Tolkien, Anglo-Saxon scholar and author of the famed  The Lord of the Rings trilogy, translated  Beowulf, the oldest surviving Old English epic poem. His translation is set to come out in May, thanks to his son, Christopher Tolkien. But the publication of Tolkien's Beowulf is problematic on a number of levels, said Jane Toswell, who teaches Old English language and literature at Western.

March 25, 2014 | London Free Press
Alice Munro Chair in Creativity
Seeking scholar to fill full-time, three-year renewable academic position.

March 13, 2014 | Western News
Professor John Leonard is honoured for a lifetime of Milton work
His recent book, Faithful Labourers, has won the 2013 James Holly Hanford Award for "distinguished monograph on Milton." Professor Leonard is among an exclusive few who have won the Hanford Award three times.

March 5, 2014 | The Gazette
Lights! Cameras! Zombies! Action!
Have you been hearing about zombies seemingly everywhere lately? Well, good news, you aren’t going crazy — it’s actually happening.Zombies, who you may recognize as the mindless walking dead creatures who occasionally feast on humans, have penetrated popular culture to such an extent that they now garner university courses dedicated to them — even at Western.

January 1, 2014 | The Globe and Mail
Alice Munro’s alma mater has plan to turn Nobel fame into new fundraising
As Alice Munro’s daughter, Jenny, stood in Stockholm to accept the Nobel Prize in literature on her mother’s behalf, the new laureate’s alma mater was at the ready, hoping to capture some of the attention.

November 28, 2013 | Western News
Professor's exploration of Milton masterpiece drawing rave reviews
John Leonard, Western English professor and renowned John Milton scholar, recently published Faithful Labourers: A Reception History of ‘Paradise Lost’, a two-volume work dealing with centuries of Milton scholarship. It has been praised for its attention to detail and fair-mindedness, for its contributions to astronomical thought in Milton’s time and has been called “one of the most sustainedly informative and carefully pondered single-authored academic books on Milton’s Paradise Lost ever to have been published.”Western News reporter Adela Talbot recently spoke to John Leonard about his most recent publication.

November 2013 | flickr
Celebrating 40 years of the Writer-in-Residence Program
See photos from the Moveable Feast gala.

September 2013 | Western News
Congratulations Leanne Trask, Graduate Affairs Assistant. Winner of the 2013 Western Award of Excellence.

August 6, 2013 | Western News
New documentary looks to collect games, memories
Video games have come a long way since Nintendo first dominated the market in the 1980s. Three decades later, Rob McCallum ((BA’04, Film Studies) has plans to go a long way to document the Nintendo saga, all the while hunting for its classic games.

2013 | Undergraduate Studies
Jagiellonian University honours Professor Falkowska with Habilitation Degree
Janina Falkowska, Professor in Film Studies, has been involved in international projects with Poland and other European countries for the past 15 years. She has participated in international conferences dealing with Europe and the European unification project and has developed a steady research relationship with the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, the oldest university in Poland. With the participation of the Jagiellonian University, she has organized conferences and workshops in Poland and Canada.

Her research interests involve not only cinemas in Poland and other European countries but also small cinemas in other geographical regions. Along this line, she has been involved in the organization of three international conferences on small cinemas in Canada, the United States and Romania. Together with David Desser and Lenuta Giukin, she has most recently edited a book Small Cinemas in Global Markets. Genres, Identities, Narratives.

To honor her great contributions to the promotion of Polish cinema abroad and to recognize her Full Professorship in Europe, in 2013 Professor Falkowska was awarded a habilitation degree by the Jagiellonian University at a lavish ceremony in the university’s oldest Great Hall. The photograph depicts this medieval ceremony.

2013 | Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Professor M.J. Kidnie awarded the 2013-14 Graham and Gale Wright Distinguished Scholar Award and Arts and Humanities Teaching Excellence Award.