Canadian Literatures in English reflects the editors’ commitment to historical contextualization, cultural inclusion, and a nuanced understanding of critical debates over the long literary history of what is now Canada. Broadview Press will be Exhibiting @ACCUTEConference2026
ACCUTE 2026 Conference CountDown begins! We have exciting activities such as Book Exhibitions from different publishers. Watch out for the spotlights this week🤗
We invite contributions that examine varying notions of slavery and freedom as they intersect with older and contemporary migrations from the African continent to Europe and America accute.ca/2025/08/07/call-fo…
Call for Panel Proposals ACCUTE 2026 - Deadline: 11 September 2025
Dear ACCUTE Members, we are pleased to announce that the 2026 ACCUTE annual conference will be held at Concordia University in Montreal, 4-7 June 2026.
For full instructions: accute.ca/accute-2026-annual…
Everyone assumes that we know what empathy is. That is, putting yourself in the other person’s shoes. That’s the assumption. I want to use my readings of literature to say it’s a little bit more complicated than that accute.ca/2025/05/16/redefin…
Members of ACCUTE who identify as racialized/BIPOC can apply for a new ACCUTE prize designed to recognize and celebrate research and activities that demonstrate impactful engagement with BIPOC concerns and communities. Read more>> accute.ca/accute-bipoc-caucu…
The Angle’s Winter 2025 issue is here! Read more about updates regarding ACCUTE Conference 2025 , a piece from Ryan J. Cox, 1st Person Interviews with Iheoma Joakin-Uzomba and Mahdiyeh Ezzatikarami, and an update from the Graduate Student Caucus.accute.ca/2025/02/14/the-ang…
My paper examines how Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin uses anti-Semitic tropes to characterize Black girlhood—specifically the character Topsy— and how the novel functions as a conversion narrative aimed at Jewish women.accute.ca/2025/02/08/odd-gob…
Joshua Whitehead’s strong act of activism was this act of reclaiming the Two-Spirit history to make it visible and available. By them remembering also becomes a cultural remembering and reclaiming Indigenous sexuality accute.ca/2024/12/06/reclaim…
ACCUTE is adding workshops to the 2025 conference program. Workshops are intensive introductions to specific methods, techniques, practices, processes, protocols, software tools, creative, critical, or theoretical approaches accute.ca/accute-call-for-wo…
“…of the Dead: The Rhizombie and Monstrous Mycelium in American Zombie Narratives,” details the central concept from my recently completed doctoral work on climate/contagion/racial entanglements accute.ca/2024/11/22/america…
The forge of forgetting: Finding the lost language of Black cowboys—Athabasca University writer in residence talk with Bertrand Bickersteth. Date: Nov. 20, 2024 from 3 – 4 p.m. MST. Location: Online. athabascau.ca/news/events/au…