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StFX English Dept @stfxenglish.bsky.social · 3d

From the English student society instagram - check it out!
www.instagram.com/p/DPe2JINEh5d/

StFX English Dept @stfxenglish.bsky.social · 3d

From the StFX English Society:

Have any questions about applying to grad school? Come to the Humanities Grad School Info Session on Thursday, October 16th at 4:30!

We will have a panel of English, History, and Philosophy departments covering a variety of topics; bring any questions!

Poster: The Socratic Circle, English & Histories Societies present: Grad school info session, October 16 4:30, MULH 2034. Come with questions for your professors! All are welcome! @stfx-university.bsky.social @facultyofartsstfx.bsky.social

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StFX English Dept @stfxenglish.bsky.social · Sep 8

Are you an English student or a student interested in learning more about the English program? If so: join @stfx-university.bsky.social 's English society!

Trivia! Crafts! Book events! Movie Nights!

Find us at our booth during Society Night on Sept 15

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Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library @parlibrary.bsky.social · Sep 4

Have you been looking for a book club that's easy to join with no cost for books? Try Chapter 1 Club at the #Pictou Library. We're starting September 16th. Register now so you can join in on the conversation and the fun.

Find out what happens in Chapter 1 at the Murray Family Public Library!

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StFX English Dept @stfxenglish.bsky.social · Sep 2

Campus is abuzz as we get ready for the first day of classes tomorrow! Welcome back, students!

StFX English Dept @stfxenglish.bsky.social · Aug 6

Student Job Alert!

Student Social Media Assistant for the Faculty of Arts, StFX
@stfx-university.bsky.social @facultyofartsstfx.bsky.social

Hone your communication skills and get valuable experience. Details at link

recruiting.ultipro.ca/GOV5000GOVE/...

recruiting.ultipro.ca

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StFX English Dept @stfxenglish.bsky.social · Jul 30

NEW COURSE!
Bible as Literature

Have we got some stories for you! Talking donkeys (no, not that one), bribery, giant fish, more discussions of foreskins than you'd expect, and beheadings!

And these stories shape culture

Register now @stfx-university.bsky.social @facultyofartsstfx.bsky.social

Advertisement for ENGL 298:10 The Bible As Literature - The Hebrew Bible

This course introduces students to the Bible as a great work of literature. We will focus on careful readings of selections from the Hebrew Scriptures (also referred to as the Old Testament). At the same time, we will examine various methods of Biblical criticism, typology, and the history of the Bible. We will read several of the most influential stories, identifying their literary styles, their linguistic and theological concerns, and their influence on society

"Judith Beheading Holofrenes" by Caravaggio, ca. 1600

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Laura Estill @lauraestill.bsky.social · May 30

Honoured to receive the Greetham Prize w/ co-authors Heidi Craig & Kris May, for "the best article published in the Society’s journal, Textual Cultures, during the two calendar years since the previous award"

"A Rationale of Trans-inclusive Bibliography" scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/ind...
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The Canadian Children's Book Centre @kidsbookcentre.bsky.social · May 29

The winners of the 2025 Red Cedar Book Awards were recently announced. SILVERWING: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL and ALONE: THE JOURNEYS OF THREE YOUNG REFUGEES took home the honours. Learn more at bit.ly/43wLMwk

Winners of the Red Cedar Book Awards announced

Organized by British Columbia’s Young Readers’ Choice Awards Society, the fiction and non-fiction winners of the Red Cedar Book Awards were announced on May 19. The goal of the program is to encourage...

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StFX English Dept @stfxenglish.bsky.social · May 27

And check out some other upcoming literary events from the @atlanticbookawards.bsky.social linktree

linktr.ee/atlanticbook...

@atlanticbookawards | Linktree

Linktree. Make your link do more.

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StFX English Dept @stfxenglish.bsky.social · May 27

Coming up on Monday:

The Nova Scotia Book Awards! 📚 📚

Check out all the nominees and be sure to admire that logo

novascotiabookawards.ca

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king's co-op bookstore @kingsbookstore.bsky.social · May 12

books rule

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StFX Digital Humanities Centre @stfx-dh.bsky.social · May 9

Today and tomorrow we are happy to host "Gaelic Song and Digital Archives" at @stfx-university.bsky.social ,organized by Heather Sparling (CBU) and Chelsey MacPherson (Dal)!

Thinking about linked open data, @rism.bsky.social , music encoding, Gaelic digital resources, and music data!

Poster with a lovely blue-green background: Gaelic Song and Digital Archives workshop. In white box a map of Nova Scotia with gaelic words including Céilidh, Seinn, Alba Nuadh, Séist, Faclan. Text: Nova Scotia Gaelic Song Index Tobair an Dualchais.

The location info (now changed) and registration (now closed)

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StFX English Dept @stfxenglish.bsky.social · May 7

New department poster just dropped

poster, created by a child using pencil crayons, that reads, in adorable block letters "STFX enGlish RocKs" - in blue and black alternating letters. There are stars, hearts, "yay," and "wow," and some panda stickers as decorations

@stfx-university.bsky.social @stfxaut.bsky.social @facultyofartsstfx.bsky.social

StFX English Dept @stfxenglish.bsky.social · May 7

Full time job (Sept-Mar this coming school year), with priority to recent grads!

Curatorial intern at the @stfx-university.bsky.social Art Gallery

Attn: @facultyofartsstfx.bsky.social @smuarts.bsky.social @artist-andy-pump.bsky.social

young-canada-works.canada.ca/Opportunity/...

Curatorial Intern at the StFX Art Gallery, St. Francis Xavier University - Young Canada Works - Canada.ca

young-canada-works.canada.ca

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StFX English Dept @stfxenglish.bsky.social · May 6

Published today! "Renaissance Politics and Thought Today," a special issue of Renaissance and Reformation coedited by @stfx-university.bsky.social English professors Joseph Khoury and @lauraestill.bsky.social

DM if you would like access to any articles!

jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/re...

Vol. 47 No. 4 (2024): Special issue: Renaissance Politics and Thought Today | Renaissance and Reformation

jps.library.utoronto.ca

StFX English Dept @stfxenglish.bsky.social · Apr 28

9 May, 7:30 - Ceilidh at the Antigonish Heritage Museum

Céilidh poster
Images: woman in purple scarf (L); woman with harp and man with fiddle (R)
20 East Main Street (Antigonish heritage museum)
7:30pm, May 9th.
Bring your instruments, a song, or just yourselves and join us for a céilidh hosted by Gaelic musicians: Mary Jane Lamond, Màiri Britton, and Bradley Murphy. Free admission.

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king's co-op bookstore @kingsbookstore.bsky.social · Apr 23

gonna scale it back a bit this year for Indie Bookstore Day and focus on getting as many great books to as many people as possible!

paperbacks - 20% off
hardcovers - 30% off
boxed sets - 40% off
ducks in hardcover - 50% off
tote bags - free with $50 purchase

stay tuned for other stuff!

paperbacks - 20% off
hardcovers - 30% off
boxed sets - 40% off
ducks in hardcover - 50% off
tote bags - free with $50 purchase

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StFX English Dept @stfxenglish.bsky.social · Apr 23

Summer jobs at Festival Antigonish!
www.festivalantigonish.ca/jobs/

Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre Job announcement

We are hiring
Summer Job Positions:
1. Production Assistant (Non Union Student Position)
2. CAEA Stage Manager - 5 week CTA contract June 17-July 19
3. CAEA Assistant Stage Manager - 8 week ITA Contract July 1-Aug 23

Deadline to Apply: April 30, 2024
Please send resume and cover letter to: Ingrid Risk, production manager ingrid@festivalantigonish.ca

For more information please visit festivalantigonish.ca/jobs

Priority consideration will be given to IBPOC candidates from the Atlantic Region

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StFXAUT @stfxaut.bsky.social · Apr 10

Shared this in the other place and will share here too as it’s #archivesawarenessweek

The @stfx-university.bsky.social Archives, located in the basement of the Angus L MacDonald library, can be accessed Monday to Friday from 1-4:30pm. Visit their archival gencat.eloquent-systems.com/stfx-archive...

gencat.eloquent-systems.com

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king's co-op bookstore @kingsbookstore.bsky.social · Apr 10

poetry is at 7, back alley poetry fight club at 9:30

Halifax National
Poetry Month Reading
CLARE GOULET
NANCI LEE
ANNICK MACASKILL
NOLAN NATASHA
ANNA QUON
Trident Booksellers
& Cafe
1256 Hollis St.
Thursday, April 10 7 pm

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Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library @parlibrary.bsky.social · Apr 9

#NationalCanadianFilmDay! 🎥 🍿 🫎 🍁
Wed Apr 16, 2025
Movies at the library!
3pm - You Are Here: A Come From Away Story , #RiverJohn
3:30pm - The Trotsky, #NewGlasgow
6pm - Bergers, #NewGlasgow
6pm - Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story, #Pictou
7pm - Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story, #Antigonish

shadow image of a moose walking through a set of open French garden doors into sunlight, with a V of geese flying, and behind it is a movie projector on a tripod shining a light forwards out the door

National Canadian Film Day
Wednesday April 16, 2025

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StFX English Dept @stfxenglish.bsky.social · Apr 8

Call for submissions: Pan-Atlantic Emerging Playwrights Unit!

Wanted: 4 early-career playwrights from across Atlantic Canada to write one-act play.
Includes: dramaturgical support, workshop with professional actors, public reading, honorarium

DEADLINE:
April 30, 2025

playwrightsatlantic.ca

Poster: PARC Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre / Arts Nova Scotia Nouvelle Écosse

Call for Submissions: Pan-Atlantic Emerging Playwrights Unit

Text: Are you
-an emerging/early career artist?
-based in Atlantic Canada?
-Interested in exploring the theme of (dis)connection in a new one-act play?

Visit our website to learn more and submit
Deadline: April 30 2025

Website (not listed on poster): https://playwrightsatlantic.ca/

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StFX English Dept @stfxenglish.bsky.social · Apr 7

Congratulations to our four English honours students who presented their undergraduate theses on Friday!

Proud of these soon-to-be @stfx-university.bsky.social @facultyofartsstfx.bsky.social grads

L to R: Renee Papp, Payton Erwin, Grace Still, and Ciara Wainwright

Four smiling undergrads who just finished thesis presentations: Renee Papp, Payton Erwin, Grace Still, and Ciara Wainwright

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StFX Faculty of Arts @facultyofartsstfx.bsky.social · Apr 3

Join us for the 2025 Department of English Honours Thesis Colloquium, where our talented students will present their research.

This is a fantastic opportunity to engage with critical discussions and support student research. Whether you're a student or professor, we’d love to see you there!

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