Strathy Language Unit
The Strathy Language Unit is a research unit at Queen鈥檚 University dedicated to the study of the English language in Canada.
The mission of the unit is to initiate, support and promote research on Canadian English from a variety of perspectives. Topics of inquiry may include:
- dialectal variation
- historical change
- language and identity
- standardization
- relationships between English and Canada's other languages (Canadian varieties of French, Indigenous languages, and the heritage languages of immigrant communities)
Activities of the unit include undertaking research projects, maintaining a corpus of Canadian English, training and mentoring student researchers, creating digital resources, sponsoring the course in Canadian English at Queen鈥檚, and participating in conferences and public events.
The unit is located in Kingston Hall, rooms 306 & 310, on the 成人大片 campus. For more information or to arrange a visit, please contact the Strathy Unit.
If you have any questions about The Strathy Language Unit, please contact the director, Anastasia Riehl.
Finding Out the Woman鈥檚 Part:
A Praxis-Based Examination of Genre and Feminism in Genderbent, All-Women Shakespeare
In the early modern English theatre, women weren't allowed to act professionally, so female roles were played by boys or young men. Shakespeare's company only employed three or four boy actors at a time, so he could only include a few female characters in each of his plays. As a result, only 16% of his characters are women, which has become an employment equity issue now that actresses make up roughly half of the performance industry. In recent decades, scholars and practitioners have also raised concerns about the quality of women鈥檚 androcentric, marginalized characterizations in Shakespeare鈥檚 plays. In response to these ongoing issues, the purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between genre and feminist readings in genderbent all-women Shakespeare (productions where all performers are women, playing their characters as women, with pronouns in the script changed as necessary).
This study has received ethical approval from the Queen鈥檚 University General Research Ethics Board. This study is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Further Questions? Please email 22eap1@queensu.ca
