Department Of English
Creative Writing minor to launch at SFU this fall
June 9, 2020Written by: Paige Riding, News Writer On the evening of May 25, around 50 attendees joined together over Zoom to celebrate the upcoming launch of SFU’s new creative writing minor. The program, available starting this fall, will eventually replace the Creative Writing Certificate previously offered by the English department. David Coley, Associate Professor and Undergraduate/Associate Chair in the English department, spoke with The Peak over email about what the minor will entail and how it differs from the preceding certificate. As well as the change in the number of credits needed for completion and specific courses being required for the…
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SFU English department welcomes Carleigh Baker as newest Writer-in-Residence
November 8, 2019By: Isabella Wang, SFU Student On Friday October 18, the SFU English Department hosted a reception and evening of reading to officially welcome Carleigh Baker as the department’s newest Writer-in-Residence. As the fifteenth writer inaugurated by the Ellen and Warren…
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Kwadacha by the River screening: consent, consultation, and colonialism
July 1, 2019By: Alison Wick, Arts Editor Kendra Strauss, director of SFU’s labour studies program, described the W.A.C. Bennett Dam as one of many contemporary resource projects where “wealth [is] generated through dispossession.” In her introduction for the screening of Kwadacha by…
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