Yet there is also a pronounced international flavour to the liberal arts at Trent. It is seen in Richard Dellamora's five books on literature, the arts and the construction of sexuality, for which he won a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. And in Constantin Boundas' exploration of the new French thinking that has given us the words postmodern and deconstruction. These works make research-based inquiry a standard for the Humanities at Trent. In Trent's Cultural Studies Department, the first in this new academic field in North America, John Fekete and Andrew Wernick have authored several books on the cultural theory that are redefining the position of the Humanities.
Social issues have immediacy at Trent.
Here students are taught that to study culture properly, you have to make culture possible. Michael Camp is a CBC Radio Producer in the Maritimes. Laura Goodgoll and Siobhan O'Connor are staff members at the Writers Union of Canada. Anne McClelland runs the Canadian Writers' Trust. Jennifer Murray is Director of Marketing for Penguin Books-Canada.