The Top 10 of 2023
Irene Gammel, Director, is pleased to present the Top 10 accomplishments of the MLC Research Centre of 2023.
December 2023
Repatriating Canadian War Quilts: MLC Receives Landmark...
In 2023, the MLC received a significant gift of twenty quilts from the Canadian Red Cross Quilt Research Group in England.
MLC Impact Report: A Year of New Connections
The MLC Research Centre is proud to present a summary of its annual achievements.
September 2023
Sana Munir joins MLC
Sana is engaged in archival research and annotating articles related to the Telling COVID-19 Stories project.
August 2023
Brenda Aleman joins MLC
Brenda assists the MLC Research Centre director and team with arts and research administration, while also supporting the MLC archive.
Angela Larosa joins MLC
Angela assists with social media content, researching avant-garde women and issues of creative resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Jeanette LaPolla joins MLC
Jeanette provides research and support for the Lorna Stevens Collection digitizing and archiving WWI and WWII rare archival holdings.
May 2023
How to Be a Woman During the Trump Era: An ...
How did contemporary American literature respond to the crisis of the Trump years and beyond?
February 2023
Zoe Griffith joins MLC
As a graduate assistant at the MLC Research Centre, Zoe provides support for Dr. Gammel’s experiential teaching.
Taylor Ussher joins MLC
With Dr. Gammel as her supervisor, Taylor explores the impact of the pandemic in fashion.
Joanna Dermenjian joins MLC
Joanna is working on Canadian women’s cultural legacy focussing on the intersection of world wars and women’s volunteer labour.
Quilts from the Second World War tell the stories of ...
Canadian women made an estimated 400,000 quilts during WW2. They represent the forgotten story of Canadian women’s efforts during the war.
January 2023
New Publication: How to Dress the Body Artfully through...
Irene Gammel & Ingrid Mida’s “How to Dress the Body Artfully: The ‘Art in Dress’ Column in the Art Amateur Magazine” is published.
Erica Armata joins MLC
At the MLCRC, Erica is engaged in researching social media content with a focus on modernism within the arts and humanities.
Christiane Tarantino joins MLC
Christiane’s research focuses on issues of immigration and trauma in Canadian literature of the twentieth century.
