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Margaret Atwood Studies

Congratulations to the winners of the Margaret Atwood Society Poster Prize!

The University of Innsbruck, Austria, had a one-day workshop, “The Handmaid’s Tale Revisited – An Intermedia Workshop,” June 2nd, 2023, organized by Prof. Dorothee Birke, Dept. of English, and Dr. Doris Eibl, Canadian Studies Centre, in collaboration with Dr. Dunja Mohr, University of Erfurt, European Representative Margaret Atwood Society and Head of the Women, Gender, and Diversity […]

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CFP for MLA 25, due 3/31/24

CFP: MLA 2025 9-12 January 2025, New Orleans “A word after a word after a word is power” We invite proposals on any topic concerning the works, adaptations, and/or career of Margaret Atwood that address the MLA presidential theme of Visibility. What are the purposes and perils of art in unstable times? 250-word abstract and […]

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Winners of the 2023 Margaret Atwood Society Awards

Congratulations to the 2023 winners of the Margaret Atwood Society Awards! Best Book on Atwood and Her Work:The Fiction of Margaret Atwood, by Fiona Tolan, Bloomsbury 2023. Best Article: “The Shape of Your Absence”: Coming to Terms with Loss and Grief in Margaret Atwood’s Dearly” in Canadian Studies June 2023), by Pauline Montassine, Université de Reims Best […]

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MLA 2024 CFP

Dressing the Part: Fashion in Atwood’s Works and Adaptations The Margaret Atwood Society invites papers on depictions of fashion in Atwood’s works and adaptations, understood broadly as relating to clothing, style, or expressions of socio-political or technical change. 250-word abstract and bio due 3/15. Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 15 March 2023 Lauren Rule Maxwell, The […]

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Pilar Somacarrera Íñigo publishes a new book on Atwood

Learn about it here.

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2021 Annual Society Business Meeting

Our annual business meeting with be over Zoom, starting at 3:30 PST p.m. on Saturday, 1/9. Zoom meeting ID: 971 2932 5493. The meeting requires a password; contact one of the officers if you want to join!

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New Collection of Atwood’s Early Works

Margaret Atwood’s early works of fiction, drama, and verse, with her colorful illustrations, are published here for the first time. They reflect her formative years in the woods of northern Ontario and Quebec, her engagement with animals, and the wide-ranging imagination and humor that also inform her novels. Edited by Nora Foster Stovel and Donna […]

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CFP for new MLA Approaches to Teaching Atwood Book

The MLA Press published Approaches to Teaching Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Other Works in 1996. Now the press is seeking contributions for a new volume to explore both the teaching of Atwood’s publications since that time and 21st-century approaches to her earlier works, such as strategies for teaching The Handmaid’s Tale that draw on the Hulu TV series, the graphic […]

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