Transcultural Journalism in the Long Eighteenth Century

• PI: Sandra Parmegiani (SOLAL)
• Funded: 2017

This research project investigates the reception of English novels (i.e. novels in English) in the Italian literary press during the Long Eighteenth Century (1700-1830). Its main purpose is the collection, analysis, and digitization of data relative to the publication, dissemination, translations, critical reviews, and editorial advertisements of English novels in Italian literary newspapers and journals.

Scribe Hero, a video game that uses e-learning to aid students in the acquisition of university-level writing skills

• PI: Kimberly Francis & Jodie Salter (SOFAM)
• Funded: 2017

Scribe Hero is an e-learning interactive instructional game designed to aid in the teaching of writing. Scribe Hero’s interface provides systematic support for students and alleviates the pressures of teaching writing at the university level, while also providing an engaged, autonomous, and professional experience for undergraduates.

The Visitors' Book as Travel Text

• PI: Kevin James (History)
• Funded: 2017

This research programme, initially employing a pilot project using a visitors’ book from the Lake District, aims to incorporate a more extensive source base of almost fifty such books as windows onto social, cultural and spatial practices related to travel from 1830, when the first extant book begins (coinciding with key developments in tourism, such as the expansion of the railway network in Britain) to 1918 (the end of the Great War).

« Rien ne sera plus beau que ces lettres » : Edition de la correspondance de Romain Rolland et Louise Cruppi

• PI: Margot Irvine (SOLAL)
• Funded: 2018

Romain Rolland’s work entered the public domain in 2015 and there have since been numerous reeditions of his work and publications of his extensive correspondence. With the support of Bernard Duchatelet, president of the Association Romain Rolland which administers the author’s literary estate, this project will form part of the re-examination of Rolland’s work.

Terrorizing Media in Canada Project

• PI: Don Moore (SETS/Guelph-Humber)
• Funded: 2018

The Terrorizing Media in Canada collaborative, online project archives and interrogates contemporary Canadian representations of terrorism and “the terrorist other” in a range of different types and sources of mass media such as Canadian journalism, cinema, television, radio, video games, social media, theatre, literature, and media art.