ACQL Papers

The ACQL-ALCQ Award for Best Paper by an emerging scholar

The relationship between Canadian Literature and the ALCQ-ACQL dates back to 1983 when we became the first and only English-language journal to win their Gabrielle Roy Prize. Since then, a number of Gabrielle Roy Prize winners have been featured in, or involved with, Canadian Literature—as of 2007, Smaro Kamboureli, Louise Ladouceur, Roxanne Rimstead, Patricia Smart and David Williams sit on our Editorial Board.

We are pleased to present the winning papers of the ALCQ-ACQL's newest prize: The ACQL-ALCQ for Best Paper by an emerging scholar. These papers will be published on our website. Some of these papers will appear in Canadian Literature, as well as on this page.

Please select a paper:

Colonization, Miscomprehension and Juxtaposition: Majzels' City of Forgetting as a Contact Zone (2009) by Maude Lapierre

"Was Ever an Adventure Without its Cost?": The Price of National Unity in E.J. Pratt's Towards the Last Spike (2008) by Erica Kelly

Trading Insults: Competitive and Collaborative Identities in Canadian Hip Hop Music (2007) by Caroline Lamb

Wondering into Country: Dionne Brand's A Map to the Door of No Return (2006) by Maia Joseph

Sure la langue de Kerouac (2005) by Jean-Sébastien Ménard

From the ALCQ-ACQL website:

In order to encourage new directions in research, ACQL decided in May 2005 to offer an annual prize for the best paper presented at the annual conference by an emerging scholar.

To be considered, applicants must:

• be an MA or PhD student or postdoctoral researcher in a Canadian university;
• be a member of the ACQL-ACQL;
• submit a proposal for a paper to the annual conference;
• submit a written copy of the paper no later than two weeks before the conference.

The judging committee will be formed by ACQL-ALCQ.

Judging will be based on the written paper rather than the oral presentation. The principal criteria of judgment will be:

• originality of the subject;
• innovation and impact of the research in the discipline;
• clarity of communication.

The winner of the prize will receive a selection of books, and a subscription to Canadian Literature. By special arrangement, Canadian Literature has agreed to send the paper for review, and to post it on the journal's website.

Prix ALCQ-ACQL de la meilleure communication par un-e jeune chercheur-e

Par le site-web ALCQ-ACQL:

L'ALCQ inaugurait en 2005 à London la remise de son premier Prix de la meilleure communication par un-e jeune chercheur-e. Le prix sera remis à la communication jugée la meilleure prononcée par les participant-e-s poursuivant des études de 2e ou 3e cycle ou accomplissant une recherche postdoctorale.

Condition d'admissibilité:

• être étudiant-e de 2e ou 3e cycle ou stagiaire postdoctoral dans une université canadienne;
• être membre de l'ALCQ;
• soumettre une proposition de communication pour le colloque annuel;
• remettre une copie écrite de sa communication au moins deux semaines avant la conférence.

Le comité d'évaluation sera formé par l'ALCQ.

L'évaluation sera fondée aussi bien sur la communication écrite que sur la présentation orale. Les principaux critères d'évaluation sont:

• originalité du sujet;
• caractère novateur des résultats de recherche communiqués pour le champ de recherche;
• clarté de la communication.

Le lauréat ou la lauréate du prix de la meilleure communication recevra en cadeau plusieurs ouvrages ainsi qu'un abonnement à Canadian Literature (Littérature canadienne). La revue soumettra par ailleurs l'article à un comité d'évaluation et l'affichera sur son site web.