The Glendon English Department is proud to announce that our student, Brenda Martinez Castro, is the winner of the Odessa Prize competition for 2021-2022. The Odessa Prize was originally established through the generosity of York alumnus Irvin Studin, and the competition seeks to reward the best paper written in a fourth-year course at żě˛ĄĘÓƵ during the past academic year. Brenda won the competition with her essay entitled And food was the dead giveaway: The Metaphor of Food in What We All Long For that she wrote for Dr. Lee Frew’s course “Writing Toronto” (EN4643 3.0) offered by the Glendon English program.

In its citation, the prize committee writes:

“This is a well written and well-argued paper. This essay is highly original since it deals with a commodity, food. However, food is more than a commodity. In her sophisticated analysis, Brenda Martinez Castro explores the connections between food (its preparation and consumption), Canadian multiculturalism, and negotiations of identity and belonging among first- and second-generation immigrants in the diaspora. Members of the award committee want to congratulate the award winner.”

Congratulations, Brenda!

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The Department of English is delighted to announce and extend its warmest congratulations to our colleague Lee Frew upon his reception of the President’s University-Wide Teaching Award. The award is granted annually to faculty members who have displayed “enthusiasm and innovative approaches to teaching.” 

Frew, who specializes in Canadian literature, was nominated for his dedication to improving the student experience by keeping inclusivity at the core of his pedagogical approach. Frew has not only been active at the English Program, where he has designed and successfully taught many courses, but has also performed valuable service for the pedagogical innovation of Glendon itself, first as the Chair of the Common First-Year Committee in 2019, and since then as co-author and co-Lead of the Glendon Core Curriculum which is being discussed across our Faculty.

For more details on Lee Frew’s nomination, please visit the September 13^th YFile located .Ěý

Please join us in congratulating Lee on this well-deserved accolade!

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The department hopes that this will become a yearly tradition. 

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From left to right: Professor Brian Morgan (Glendon English), Martha Neufville (Dean, FLEX/Varona U), Professor Ian Martin (Glendon English, Coordinator D-TEIL Certificate), Daisy Frage (President, Varona U), Professor Ruberval Maciel (State University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil).

In 2012, this student experience was awarded an honour by the Canadian Embassy in Havana for being the best such international student visit to Cuba in the field of education. The program has also attracted considerable international attention through conference presentations in 2015 at International Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Inc, the American Association of Applied Linguistics conference, and the Brazilian Association of Applied Linguistics. It has also been featured in a book chapter in Unequal Englishes edited by Ruanni Tapas, (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015), for its innovative approach to language teacher education for a global society.

This year’s practicum was of particular significance; not only did the program’s 100th student travel to Cuba – and taught practicum classes in both English and French – but it was the focus of an international symposium in Havana dedicated exclusively to the program’s 10th anniversary with the topic “Glendon’s Cert D-TEIL Program: An Example of Post-Method Language Teaching for Global Society”.

The event was hosted on May 7 by the English Specialists’ Group of the Cuban Academy of Sciences, and was attended by scholars from Cuba and Brazil concerned with the preparation of global English language teachers.

Apart from the 16 Glendon students, who each highlighted a different aspect of the program, as well as Glendon English Department Professors Brian Morgan and Ian Martin; speakers included FLEX/Varona Dean Martha Neufville, and from Brazil, Professors Clarissa Menezes Jordao (University of Parana), Ruberval Maciel (State University of Mato Grosso do Sul), Lara Bruz (Doctoral Candidate, University of Parana) and Gustavo Moura (Master’s student, University of Mato Grosso do Sul).

Bruz’s doctoral thesis topic is the D-TEIL Certificate. Both Bruz and Moura spent a term at Glendon participating in and observing Cert D-TEIL activities.

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