Yesterday I slipped on the ice, fell, and broke my wrist, and I’m already tired of telling people what I did to put my forearm in a cast. So–prepare for some name-dropping–my friend Tanya Huff, the wonderful million-selling fantasy novelist, emailed me the following story to tell my students and colleagues when they see me this week:
“What happened? I was doing parkour around the campus […]
After a relaxing holiday break, I’m back to work feeling energized and exuberant. Last night I taught my first class of the term–a new seminar course I’ve developed on “Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature”–and I’ll be heading to the lecture hall in a few minutes to teach the first class of my “Introduction to Romantic Literature” […]
I’m currently putting the finishing touches on an article I’ve co-written with my research assistant, Blake Bouchard, entitled “The Grave Robber and the Paternalist: Anna Jameson and Sir Francis Bond Head among the First Nations of Canada.” The article, which will be published in the journal Romanticism, may come as a bit of a shock to […]
Today UNBC issued a press release for my new book, Transatlantic Literary Exchanges, which I co-edited with Julia Wright. Featuring chapters by ten different authors, the book took us just over three years to complete, so it feels good to see it in print at last. Check out the press release, along with a picture of my smiling […]
My beloved father passed away peacefully last Sunday after a difficult two-month struggle with cancer. Although it was hard to watch him suffer, I was fortunate to spend much time during the past five weeks by his bedside with my family, where we all did what we could to assist and comfort him. Dad’s memorial service will be held at 11:00AM on Thursday, November […]
I’ve spent the last several weeks by my father’s bedside surrounded by family and close friends at the Carpenter Hospice in Burlington. Having been diagnosed with terminal cancer in August, Dad has gone downhill too quickly, and he could leave us at any time. But he isn’t going down without a fight, for he seems to have taken a […]
My visit last week to the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation (OCF) on Manitoulin Island was inspiring. The OCF’s executive director, Alan Corbiere, gave me a tour of the museum display, shared books and articles with me, and took me to Manitowaning, where Sir Francis Bond Head signed a treaty with the Anishinaabe people in 1836. My […]
Today I finished writing the guest lecture I’ve been invited to present next Wednesday evening at the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation (OCF) on Manitoulin Island in Ontario (for details of the talk, see my July 21st news post). As an added benefit, I’ll be in Ontario for my Dad’s 80th birthday, and I’ll be able to sing him […]
I’ve just returned home from a trip to the Yukon, where, among other things, I found myself entertaining a group of Australian river-rafters at Antoinette’s Restaurant in Whitehorse. These Aussie “raftafarians” had just returned from a 12-day trip down the Tatshenshini River. They were up for some boisterous musical fun, so we sang with gusto until the […]
I was honoured this week to accept an invitation to speak on September 14 at the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation Gallery (OCF) on Manitoulin Island’s M’Chigeeng First Nation. Manitoulin’s Anishinaabe people are marking the 175th anniversary of the signing of the “Bond Head Treaty” on August 9. As it happens, I’ve been working on a book about Sir Francis Bond Head, a nineteenth-century […]
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Kevin Hutchings
