A Guest Post by Keely Shirt I began my internship near the beginning of my final year of university and it is now ending at the beginning of my final semester. I am finally here: finally writing my finals and finally saying goodbye, in the final hours of one chapter of my life. During this […]
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A guest post, from the front matter of Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap Cheryl MacDonald and Jonathon Edwards have published their first book, an anthology titled Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap: Hockey’s Agents of Change. The book was included in Quill & Quire’s Best of Fall 2021 Non-Fiction list. But what is a neutral zone […]
A Guest Post by Richard Costa Description has a bad reputation. I imagine most of us have skipped ahead while reading a book because the dialogue and the action were more interesting than lengthy accounts of natural or man-made landscapes. But without some form of description, stories and histories exist in a kind of vacuum, […]
A Guest Post by Tanvi Mohile In 2020, UAlberta Press began the exciting project of distributing our first audiobooks in collaboration with ECW Press. Three of our previously published books are now available as audiobooks: Crow Never Dies; Magnetic North; and Grant Notley, 2nd Edition. This month, our latest audiobook became available for download: Tiny […]
A Guest Post by Keely Shirt Hello! My name is Keely Shirt. I am the new Digital Projects Intern at University of Alberta Press. I am an undergraduate student at the University of Alberta in the Faculty of Native Studies. I transferred from MacEwan University into the program in Fall 2019, and it’s been a […]
A Guest Post by Tanvi Mohile It has been a wonderful two years at UAlberta Press as their first PhD Intern. Time has simply flown by, and as my internship comes to an end, I was asked to reflect on my time at the Press and to share my experiences. My Press colleagues invited me […]
“A society can be understood by the types of laws that it creates, but it can also be understood by its Constitution.” Donald F. Bur All law is complicated, and constitutional law is particularly complicated. As a result, most people know the Constitution of this country through two documents—the Constitution Act, 1867 and the the Constitution […]
A Guest Post by Richard Costa Hello! I am the second PhD intern at University of Alberta Press, following Tanvi Mohile. I started the PhD program at the Department of English and Film Studies in Fall 2019, and it’s been a tremendous experience so far. I have a BA in English from Federal University of […]