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May 1, 2025

A New Publication: Canadian Suburban Poetry and the ...

In American Review of Canadian Studies, Irene Gammel and Christiane Tarantino examine Rouge: Poems (2018) by Adrian De Leon.

April 13, 2025

Lina Tupak-Karim joins MLC

Lina brings to the MLCRC her interests in Latin American and German literature, the sociological theory of objects and emotions.

March 25, 2025

Exciting New Program: Research and Study Internships at...

This year’s Research and Study Internship recipients at the MLC and what they say about the program.

December 27, 2024

MLC Research Centre’s TOP 10 OF 2024

Irene Gammel, Director, is pleased to present the top accomplishments of the MLC Research Centre in 2024.

December 9, 2024

Saluting Mary Riter Hamilton: A Personal Reflection on ...

Historica Canada has released a new Heritage Minute, featuring Mary Riter Hamilton, Canada’s first woman battlefield artist.

October 18, 2024

Attention Students — Call for Student Volunteer ...

Become a docent at the MLCRC exhibition Threads of History: Repatriating World War II Quilts at Toronto City Hall.

October 3, 2024

Payton Knox joins MLC

Payton is involved in providing grading support for the course ENG 240: Contours of Creativity.

September 21, 2024

MLC Annual Impact Report 2023 - 2024

The MLC Research Centre is proud to present a summary of its annual achievements.

August 11, 2024

Call for Papers for Routledge Book: Life Writing in a ...

We welcome papers that engage with any aspect of life writing during the pandemic.

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The Great War in Literature and Visual Culture

Amid the unprecedented social change of World War I, women renegotiated their identities by dramatically changing the way they engaged with the arts. But how did they do so? And how did everyday citizens engage with the war?

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Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, considered by many to be the mother of Dada, was a daringly innovative poet and an early creator of junk sculpture. “The Baroness” was best known for her sexually charged, often controversial performances.

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Modernism in the World

Recent research has departed from the Euro-centric and national view of Modernism to include approaches and methods studying Modernism across national boundaries and across different art forms to include fashion, dance, performance, technology, and visual culture.

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Lucy Maud Montgomery

L.M. Montgomery is perhaps Canada's most important literary export. She was prolific writer of over 500 short stories and poems, and twenty novels, including the beloved Anne of Green Gables.

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Canadian Modernism

The works of numerous Canadian authors who lived during the modernist era may well constitute the most central and experimental articulation of Canadian modernism in prose, allowing authors to stage cross-cultural, controversial, and even conflicted identities.

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Modernist Biography and Life Writing

Life writing, including autobiographical accounts, diaries, letters and testimonials written or told by women and men whose political, literary or philosophical purposes are central to their lives, has become a standard tool for communication and the dissemination of information.