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Meet Jaya Sinha, Western's new student writer-in-residence

Western's 2025-26 student writer-in-residence, fourth-year student Jaya Sinha, loves art of all types, including a newfound passion for theatre. Through her residency, she hopes to nurture other emerging playwrights and encourage students across disciplines to explore writing, regardless of experience or skill level.

Congratulations to Dr. Amala Poli, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, Risk(in)g Sleep: A Health Humanities Study of Sleep Paralysis

The Black Londoners Project, led by English and Writing studies professors Miranda Green-Barteet and Alyssa MacLean, continues to retrace the lives of 16 freedom seekers whose early presence helped shape the city's landscape

Megan McLennan named 2025 McIntosh Colloquium Recipient

Congratulations to Julia Sanders whose essay “The Composite Vision”: Acts of Imagination in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome” has been awarded the Sara Marie Jones Memorial Scholarship in English

Western introduces creative writing major