Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Who’s taught, who’s not

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Quill & Quire asked the English departments of 29 Canadian universities to submit reading lists from the 2000-2001 academic year for undergraduate courses in Canadian literature. The chart below shows the 20 authors whose works ... Read More »

May 6, 2004

Varsity blues

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Students who arrived at the University of Manitoba this fall may have noticed something a little edgier about the textbook store, a familiar fixture of the campus student centre. Flyers and ads promoting the U ... Read More »

May 6, 2004

Turn on, plug in, hook up

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Student life at Acadia University has changed dramatically during the last year.Last September, the school – located in Wolfville, Nova Scotia – introduced the Acadia Advantage, an optional program that equipped first-year students in the ... Read More »

May 6, 2004

The taste makers

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The man who conceived it called his interest in Canadian literature a hobby; the general editor now presiding won’t hear talk of canons. And yet if there’s a single shelf readers look to for the ... Read More »

May 6, 2004

The new-look scholarly press

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When Bruce Walsh talks about the irreverent style of the new McGill-Queen's University Press advertising campaign, he is optimistic about the opportunities available to academic presses in the trade market and impatient with publishers who ... Read More »

May 6, 2004

The new scholars

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In the past, Canadian university presses have endured a reputation as publishers of staid, dryly written tomes – authored by “old men with hair growing out of their ears,” as one insider recently put it. ... Read More »

May 6, 2004