Amanda Perry (New York University) Wins CACLALS 2017 Graduate Student Presentation Prize!

CACLALS warmly congratulates Amanda Perry, PhD candidate at New York University, for being selected by judges Drs. Susie O-Brien, Mariam Pirbhai and Pamela McCallum as the winner of the 2017 CACLALS Graduate Student Presentation Prize, for her paper “Revolution and Repetition: C.L.R. James, the Henry Rebellion, and the Promise of Cuba.”

Finalists Jason Sunder and Brian Lefresne are also commended for their impressive and engaging presentations on Caribbean and South Asian literatures, respectively. Studies in Canadian Literature provided certificates and subscriptions to the finalists, along with consideration of revised papers for publication. In addition, all three finalists were given a one-year complimentary membership to CACLALS.

For a description, criteria for judging, and other information about the prize, see Graduate Student Conference Presentation Prize.

Jason Sunder Wins CACLALS 2016 Graduate Student Presentation Prize

CACLALS warmly congratulates Jason Sunder, PhD candidate at Western, for being selected by judges Drs. Herb Wyile, John Ball, and Pamela McCallum as the winner of the 2016 CACLALS Graduate Student Presentation Prize for “Narratology and Human-Animal Conflict in Tania James’ The Tusk That Did the Damage.” Finalists Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba and Christina Turner are also commended for their impressive and engaging presentations. Studies in Canadian Literature provided certificates and subscriptions to the finalists, along with consideration of revised papers for publication.

For a description, criteria for judging, and other information about the prize, see Graduate Student Conference Presentation Prize.

Winner

Robert Pasquini (McMaster): “Exhausting Victorian Bio-Capital: Threatened Biota and the Working-Class Economics of Extinction”

Runners-up

Brandi Estey-Burtt (Dalhousie): “The Ethics of Thievery and Mapping in Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs”

Jordan Gabriel Sheridan (McMaster): “Mice and Men, Genes and Germs”: the Entanglements of Race, Species, and Biocapital in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth”

For a description, criteria for judging, and other information about the prize, see Graduate Student Conference Presentation Prize.

Winner

Stephanie Oliver (Western): “The Politics of Scattering Seeds: Cultivation and Diasporic Settlement”

Runners-up

Andy Verboom (Western): “Comparative Genocidal Theory: Macaulay’s Minute and the Davin Report”

Tania Aguila-Way (Ottawa): “‘as pollution erodes these lines/ no sense in food or rhyme’: Nature/Culture Binarism and ‘Seed Freedom’ Activism in Rita Wong’s
Forage and Annabel Soutar’s Seeds”

For a description, criteria for judging, and other information about the prize, see Graduate Student Conference Presentation Prize.

Winner

L. Camille Van Der Marel (Alberta): “Marginal Returns: Debts, Indebtedness, and the Caribbean-Canadian Diaspora”

Runners-up

Gregory Fenton (Guelph): “Resisting Neoliberal Citizenship from the Humanities”

Rebecca Campbell (Western) “Insurgency and Commemoration at Batoche”

For a description, criteria for judging, and other information about the prize, see Graduate Student Conference Presentation Prize.

Winner

Jennifer Hardwick (Queen’s) “A Space of Not Knowing”: Settler Ignorance and the Study of Indigenous Literatures”

Runners-Up

Tania Aguila-Way (Ottawa) “Uncertain Landscapes: Trauma, Risk and Scientific Knowledge in Madeleine Thien’s Fiction”

Kasim Husain (McMaster) “At What Price Home? Queer Liberalism and the Gentrification of London in Hanif Kureishi’s My Beautiful Laundrette”

L. Camille van der Marel (Alberta), “Why Did the Postcolonial Scholar Cross the Road? The Transnational Turn in Canadian Literary Studies”

For a description, criteria for judging, and other information about the prize, see Graduate Student Conference Presentation Prize.

Winner

Jesse Arseneault (McMaster): “Animal Movements and Postcolonial Geographies”

Runners-up

Jessie Forsyth (McMaster) “Just a Speculation: Epistemological Economies in Equiano’s Interesting Narrative”

Amanda Perry (British Columbia) “Sounding Out Cross-Cultural Relations in Edward Kamau Brathwaite’s Rights of Passage”

For a description, criteria for judging, and other information about the prize, see Graduate Student Conference Presentation Prize.