Tag: education
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Violent Colonial Histories and the Limits of Reconciliation: Katherine Govier’s Between Men
Katherine Govier’s Between Men Canadian literature has a fair number of internationally-acclaimed women writers, including in crime fiction. I’m puzzled that Katherine Govier’s work is not more famous, and I think she should be counted in the company of Atwood, Laurence, Gallant, and Munro, although she’s about a decade younger than Atwood. While her first…
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Clearing Space for Kindness
“Kindness” is not a concept that I always associate with higher education, or with education in general. Learning is difficult, but that inherent challenge has been compounded by the human and thus imperfect systems that we’ve built: Grading. Ranking. Prize Days and Spelling Bees. Attendance requirements that punish the chronically ill. The endless, disheartening casualization…
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Bonus Sunday CNF Essay: Horror in the Hallowed Halls of the Academy
This piece is part of a collection of lyric essays that I wrote under the gentle and generous supervision of Becky Blake. U of T has a terrific Creative Writing Program Certificate through Continuing Studies; it was a valuable introduction, for me, to providing and receiving writing workshop feedback. My MFA, starting in May, will…
