Faculty readings highlight English Month

The U of C celebrates March as English Department Month with a series of free public events highlighting the English Department’s contributions to the university and Calgary.

As part of the month-long celebration, the University of Calgary Bookstore will focus on books edited or written by members of the English Department. Recent scholarly and imaginative books by faculty and graduate students will be displayed and on sale from March 10 to 14. As well, authors will give free talks and brief readings from titles published in 2007 and 2008.

On March 11 at noon, Jacqueline Jenkins discusses her new edition on the medieval theologian Julian of Norwich, Rod McGillis reads from his collection of essays on Victorian fantasy author George MacDonald and from his own new novel Les Pieds Devant, Lorne Macdonald speaks about his new edition of ghost stories by John William Polidori, the personal physician of English poet Lord Byron, and Robert Majzels presents his new novel, The Humbugs Diet.

On March 12 at noon, Richard Davis speaks about his edition of R.M. Patterson's 1927-29 journals detailing his travels through the Nahanni and Flat Rivers region of the Northwest Territories, Michael Clarke discusses the U.S. fascination with bigness described in his These Days of Large Things: The Culture of Size in America, 1865-1930, and Tom Wayman presents a new poetry collection, High Speed Through Shoaling Water, and his first-ever collection of stories, Boundary Country.
Preceding each of the noon-hour events at 11:30 a.m., Murray McGillivray offers an onsite demonstration of an old-style platen printing press.

For a full roster of events, visit  www.english.ucalgary.ca/EnglishMonth. For more information about English Department Month, contact rmajzels@ucalgary.ca.