The English
Course Council

The English Course Council (ECC), to which all English graduate students automatically belong, holds general and executive meetings every month. The ECC executive consists of eleven officers: Chair, Vice-Chair/Treasurer, Secretary, Communications Officer, Social Director, Graduate Committee Representative, Research Committee Representative, two Faculty Committee representatives (one M.A., one Ph.D.), and two Graduate Students' Association Representatives. Every student in the program is eligible to sit on the executive, the members of which are elected at the first general meeting of the academic year.

Perhaps the most important functions of the ECC executive are promoting student views and concerns to the Department's Graduate Committee and Research Committee, and advocating for individual students and groups to various offices and agencies on campus. The ECC gathers and distributes information for its membership; promotes events important to graduate studies in English—readings, seminars, and conferences; it also serves in a more social way by organizing pubs, skating parties, movie nights, and much more. An ECC member edits The Daily Procrastinator, the newsletter for graduate students in English. Members of the ECC also manage and edit The Fieldstone Review, an online literary journal publishing poetry, short fiction, non-fiction, and reviews.

ECC 2019–2020

Executive Council:

  • President: Megan Solberg
  • Vice-President/Finance: Tricia Monsour
  • Communications Officer: Lindsay Church
  • Editors-in-Chief (The Fieldstone Review): Shane Farris and Ian Moy

Non-Executive Council:

  • Daily Procrastinator Editor: Adam Epp
  • Faculty Committee Representative: Kyle Dase (PhD), Dara Gerbrandt (MA)
  • Graduate Committee Representative: Mark Doerksen
  • GSA Representative: Lindsay Church and Michelle Kent (alternate)
  • Research, Scholarly, and Artistic Work Committee Representative: Andrej Kis
  • ACCUTE Representative: Amanda Burrows
  • Social Committee: Kyle Dase, Mark Doerksen, Jillian Baker, Michelle Kent

Fieldstone Review Editorial Board 2019-2020

  • Editors-in-Chief: Shane Farris and Ian Moy
  • Copy Editor: Michelle Kent
  • Website Editor: Dara Gerbrandt
  • Fiction Editor: Kai Monk-McKenzie
  • Poetry Editor: Richelle Gaudet
  • Creative Non-Fiction and Reviews Editor: Megan Solberg