Program Description
The major in English Literature, grounded in literary criticism and theory, develops students’ interpretive and communicative skills. We offer courses in Indigenous literatures and rhetorics, documentary filmmaking, creative writing, science and health communication, postcolonial studies, children’s literature, detective fiction, environmental communication, women’s writing, critical theory, Gothic literature, Canadian literature, and early modern literature. The Department organizes various extracurricular events including the Dbaajmawak Indigenous Writers Series featuring renowned authors such as Maria Campbell and Richard Van Camp. The Department’s literary journal Sulphur is edited and published by the English Arts Society.
