/newsroom/taxonomy/term/8909/all en /newsroom/channels/news/historical-fiction-guarantee-critical-success-or-trap-348315 <p>For 21st century authors, the odds of writing a critical hit are much higher if the novel takes place in the past, not the present or future. Between 2000 and 2020, about three quarters of the novels shortlisted for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award took place in the historical past.</p> Fri, 12 May 2023 18:28:17 +0000 claire.loewen@mcgill.ca 299933 at /newsroom /newsroom/marianne-stenbaek Mon, 31 Jan 2022 20:54:49 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 285517 at /newsroom /newsroom/alanna-thain Fri, 06 Aug 2021 17:39:50 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 271893 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/experts-pride-month-june-2021-331401 <p>June is Pride Month in Canada. It is a time when we celebrate diversity and LGBTQ+ communities, acknowledge their history, the hardships they have endured, and the progress that has been made. (<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/community/celebrating-pride-month-2021-1.6041475" target="_blank">CBC News</a>)</p> <p>Here are some experts from Æ»¹ûÒùÔº that can provide comment on this issue:</p> Tue, 08 Jun 2021 14:25:05 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 269333 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/experts-escalating-violence-between-israelis-and-palestinians-331055 <p>Israel hit three multi-storey towers as it hammered the Gaza Strip with airstrikes, and militants in the territory fired barrages of rockets at Israel, in the most severe outbreak of violence since the 2014 Gaza war, with no resolution in sight. The fighting has taken on many hallmarks of that devastating 50-day conflict between Israel and Hamas, but with a startling new factor: large, heated protests by Israeli Arabs in support of those living in the territories as well as counter-violence by Jewish Israelis.</p> Thu, 13 May 2021 19:51:15 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 265175 at /newsroom /newsroom/richard-jean-so Mon, 18 Jan 2021 11:43:19 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 256245 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/life-after-and-during-phd-project-designed-change-expectations-culture-academy-297765 <p>For the past four years a cross-Canada project developed by Æ»¹ûÒùÔº, <a href="http://tracemcgill.com">TRaCE</a>, has been gathering stories and data about life after (and during) a humanities PhD.</p> <h3>The goal?</h3> <p>To shift the expectations of PhD students away from a single-minded focus on a future in academe (since only about 30% will end up with tenure-track jobs) and give them a sense of a range of satisfying possible careers.</p> Wed, 12 Jun 2019 15:59:21 +0000 vincent.allaire@mcgill.ca 168556 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/bob-dylan-awarded-nobel-prize-literature-263424 <p>The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 is awarded to Bob Dylan "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition". (<a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2016/press.html">NobelPrize.org</a>)</p> Thu, 13 Oct 2016 20:09:17 +0000 vincent.allaire@mcgill.ca 26279 at /newsroom