Demeter Press seeks submissions on mothers and food
An upcoming collection will explore connections between mothers and mothering, and the preparation, consumption and appreciation of food.
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Prof’s debut novel chosen as a book of the year by Quill and Quire
York humanities Professor Sylwia Chrostowska’s debut novel Permission was chosen as one of five books of the year (2013) by Quill and Quire review editor Steven W. Beattie, who called it one of the most intellectually bracing and technically fascinating Canadian-authored novels of the year.
Read moreEssay collection honours pre-eminent Canadian medical anthropologist
Anthropology Professor Naomi Adelson has co-edited Troubling Natural Categories, celebrating Margaret Lock, known for questioning our deeply held assumptions about biology, medicine and culture.
Read moreAnthology explores challenges for higher-education policy makers
How is education policy being forged in turbulent economic times? That question and others are explored in a collection of scholarly essays edited by four York professors.
Read more‘TOPIA’ explores meaning in spatial and cultural contexts
The latest issue of the York-edited Canadian journal of cultural studies features essays on the conceptual art of IAIN BAXTER& and York grad Allyson Mitchell.
Read moreDemeter Press releases debut story collection
Professor Andrea O’Reilly’s feminist imprint publishes What We Hold in Our Hands, stories about caring and love by Kim Aubrey.
Read moreNew book by York prof explores narratives of interracial couples
The book, Interracial Couples, Intimacy, and Therapy: Crossing Racial Borders, which also looks at the couples’ encounters with racism and discrimination, their formation of new couple and family identities, and best practices of counselling and therapy, will launch Dec. 12 at Caversham Booksellers.
Read moreYork professor, writer, poet focus of journal
The newest issue of CELAAN, review of the Center for the Studies of the Literatures and Arts of North Africa, looks at the works of York Professor Hedi Bouraoui.
Read more‘Fresh Hell’ details disasters and delights of motherhood
Billed as a book for the smarter mommy crowd, Fresh Hell: Motherhood in Pieces seesaws from disaster to delight, horror to grim resignation, much like motherhood itself.
Read moreBook takes hard look at model-based analysis in energy policy design
A recently published book, Energy Policy Modeling in the 21st Century edited by Professor Hassan Qudrat-Ullah, is taking a hard look at the use of model-based analysis and scenarios in energy policy design and assessment, which has seen phenomenal growth during the past several decades.
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