English

By Victor Romao

It’s a Thursday afternoon at Sunset House. Conversations shift from art and literature to technology, politics and the changing landscape of higher education.

Ideas are exchanged, stories and perspectives shared and a steady rhythm of curiosity fills the meeting room.

For members of the Windsor University Retirees’ Association (WURA), retirement is not an ending. It signals the start of something new.

The English Undergraduate Student Association (EUSA) executive team set out three goals for the past term.

They included: launch this year’s zine Generation: Liminality at Biblioasis Bookshop, host two events each month and plan an overnight trip to Stratford to see a Shakespearean play.

“We did not know if the Stratford trip was going to be possible at all,” said EUSA co-president Maya Roumie. “We’re of the generation that experienced the COVID pandemic in high school, and we didn’t really get school trips the way other people did.”

By Kate Hargreaves 

Sherri-Lynn Soumis’s mentor used to tell her to “pay it forward” whenever she could. 

As a high school English teacher, Soumis is doing just that as an associate teacher, mentoring University of Windsor teacher candidates through their practice teaching placements. 

Soumis explains that she takes inspiration from her own associate teachers who left a lasting impression on her. 

By Kate Hargreaves

Ever wanted to learn about historical burial practices, the Underground Railroad, heritage architecture, labour history, local ecosystems and more, all for free? 

These are only a handful of topics covered by the Windsor-Essex Jane’s Walk Festival, taking place across three weekends: April 23 to 26, April 30 to May 3 and May 9, 2026. 

By Lindsay Charlton

The foods we make are often shaped by much more than flavour, carrying stories and sharp or sweet memories that linger long after the meal is over.

The Poet’s Cookbook, produced by the editing and publishing practicum course, brings together anecdotes and recipes from 21 writers, offering an intimate glimpse into their culinary lives.

By Kate Hargreaves 

Courtney Gilmour (BA ’12) is a two-time Juno-nominated stand-up comedian, a voice on PAW Patrol and a recent addition to the cast of Trailer Park Boys.  

She built that career the hard way — starting with zero comedy experience on a Windsor stage she had no business being on. 

Famed children’s book writer Christopher Paul Curtis will be taking on the role of writer in residence at the University of Windsor this month.

The Michigan-born author, whose work includes numerous magazine and journal articles along with eight books — including three he penned in Leddy Library — will return to campus Friday, March 6, where he will kick off his month-long residency with the writer in residence’s inaugural reading.

Curtis’s first novel, The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963, was released in 1995 and brought him immediate and well-deserved recognition.

By Kate Hargreaves 

With children’s literature becoming a flashpoint for controversy in both the United States and Canada, the question of who is represented in stories for kids and how those stories are told appears more urgent than ever. 

An upcoming colloquium hosted by the University of Windsor department of English will focus on precarity in children’s literature, examining the ways in which marginalized identities are represented in texts for children. 

By Lindsay Charlton

Walking through the halls of Chrysler Hall North, you might hear the melodious notes of opera music alongside the click-clack of a typewriter ringing from a corner office as poet Gustave Morin gets to work on his latest piece.

The celebrated Windsor author has spent the last month in the University of Windsor’s creative writing department helping the next generation of writers hone their craft and sharing his insight and experience as the fall Pat Sturn writer-in-residence.

“I'm here to just give friendly advice,” Morin said.

By Lindsay Charlton

Combining literature with the culinary arts, students in this year’s Editing and Publishing Practicum courses are crafting The Poet’s Cookbook, the inaugural publication of the independent publisher Conspiracy Press.

“The Poet's Cookbook functions as an attempt to bring a human element into writing,” said English and creative writing student Regis Bogahalanda.