One of Canada’s leading literary journals is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Established in 1967, The Malahat Review has featured emerging and established writers, discovered promising new talent and presented perceptive critical comment on other works.
For the past 10 years, students in UVic's writing department have benefited by learning from veteran journalists and authors, thanks to the Harvey Stevenson Southam Lecturer in Journalism and Nonfiction.
500 posts in, MyUVic Life provides a first-person perspective on the UVic student experience. MyUVic Life is a blog for students, by students. A diverse team of undergraduate student bloggers create first-person stories that are posted as an accessible and widely read collection.
Heather Clark, a veteran tour guide and former publications coordinator for the European Association for International Education, has spent upwards of six months a year for the past 16 years traveling the world. That's in addition to completing two degrees here at UVic: a BA in Hispanic studies and an MFA in writing. Now she's putting all that experience to work with her new company and a proposed travel-writing field school for the writing department.
UVic Libraries has acquired a rare print edition of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and revealed this one-of-a-kind volume on Oct. 26 in time for a lecture at UVic on Plath's birthdate, Oct. 27. This unique volume features original sketches added by hand by Plath's own daughter, the artist and writer Frieda Hughes.
This year's ever-popular annual faculty reading night will include the announcement of the inaugural recipient of the Lorna Crozier Scholarship. In advance of the Sept. 28 event, Shane Book, one of Crozier's former students and the writing department’s newest poetry professor, reflects on her influence as a teacher.
Ann-Bernice Thomas doesn’t hesitate when asked the most surprising aspect of being named the City of Victoria’s 2016 Youth Poet Laureate. “All the attention,” she says with a quick laugh. “Considering I didn't really hear anything about last year's poet, it's been really surprising . . . but nice.” A second-year double-major in theatre and writing, Thomas was announced as the new Youth Poet Laureate in January and quickly received a flurry of attention from nearly all of Victoria’s media outlets. Her one-year term, jointly funded by the City of Victoria and the Greater Victoria Public Library, ends on December 31, for which she will receive a $1,750 honorarium and $1,000 in special project funding.
An ocean explorer striving to preserve fragile marine ecosystems. A physicist unlocking the secrets of the universe. An oceanographer who makes science open and accessible to everyone. A writer who helps us interpret the trials and tribulations of modern life. And two engineers and an entrepreneur who came up with a brilliant idea and ran with it.
When the new international chemistry journal ACS Omega launches this summer, a longtime University of Victoria chemist will be steering its direction.
An award-winning author, a publishing visionary, a pioneer in on-campus computing and an early writing department chair—David Godfrey was all this and so much more. The Department of Writing is saddened to announce the passing of this former professor at the age of 77.
Call it learning 360. When writing professor Maureen Bradley teaches digital media for storytellers, her venue is a departure from the typical university lecture hall: no podium, desk seating or front of the classroom. Instead, tables with roller-wheel chairs line the room, with a multi-media teaching island in the centre. Each table serves as a five-student pod, equipped with a 48-inch wireless video screen, audio speakers, laptop plug-ins and writable white board. Bradley displays video or broadcasts audio to any or all dozen screens in the room, or shows individual or group projects to every screen.
Distance education program serves the needs of busy professionals—even those who live close to campus Asking Andy Stuart about his aspirations as a child, he recalls spending many hours playing with a specific group of Lego blocks while growing up in Gordon Head. “The police station was my favorite.”
Canada’s academic stars to converge on Victoria Hey Victoria, get ready to host almost 400 distinguished academic guests—the Royal Society of Canada is coming to town! The Royal Society (RSC) is Canada’s national academy dedicated to promoting learning and research in three main streams: the arts and humanities; the social sciences; and the sciences. Every year, the RSC holds its annual general meeting in a different Canadian city. This year, RSC fellows and college members from across the country will converge on the Victoria Conference Centre/Fairmont Empress Hotel on Nov. 26–28. The University of Victoria is the sponsor institution.
Popular culture steps into the spotlight with 2016 Southam Lecturer When it comes to writing about popular culture, Carl Wilson’s heart will always go on. That’s partly because, as a music critic for Slate and Billboard magazines, Wilson is deeply passionate about the impact music can have on everyone’s lives; but it’s also because his book about C&e#180;lineDion struck a chord that rivaled the power of love.
The UVic community knows Dr. Ana Maria Peredo as an award-winning professor in the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, whose research explores the role of business in fostering sustainable communities. But to the people she meets in the high Andes communities, she's Senorita Ana Maria, a spirited traveler with a great respect for the people she encounters in a land that's both familiar and foreign to her.
Need proof of the impact of the Department of Writing‘s film production courses? Just look to last month’s 2015 Leo Award nominations, where films by writing faculty and alumni received a combined 26 nominations for five productions—an impressive number for a university that doesn’t technically even have a film production program.
