Out September 20th, 2022

“a stirring collection of essays exploring sentimentality and the use of emotion in reading and storytelling” that “draws on the works of feminist thinkers including Sara Ahmed, Lauren Berlant, and Jia Tolentino, and … will surely take its place among them.”

- Publisher’s Weekly

Praise for A Sentimental Education

  • A Sentimental Education is a love letter for those who have long awaited a discussion on the complex relationship between care, theory, love, and loss.

    — Minelle Mahtani, author of Mixed Race Amnesia

  • From Pamela to podcasts, scholar Hannah McGregor troubles the white woman sentimentalism that informed her childhood and later transformed her approach to scholarship.

    — Chantal Gibson, author of with/holding

  • A Sentimental Education made me laugh, cry, and reach for my pen to write everything down. This book is necessary, luminous, and crackling with joy and kindness.

    — Erin Wunker, author of Notes from a Feminist Killjoy

  • “[T]hese important essays represent rigorous thought and fierce commitment to an engaged style of intellectual and political practice. … Highly recommended.” -The Vancouver Sun

    -The Vancouver Sun

  • Forthcoming in Fall 2024, Clever Girl will be published as part of ECW’s Pop Classics series.

    Jurassic Park has been called a lot of things—a record-breaking international blockbuster, a pioneering example of CGI wizardry, a boon to dinosaur-loving children of the nineties—but it is rarely called a classic of feminist storytelling. Based on a novel by Michael Crichton and written, produced, and directed by a slate of white men, it certainly doesn’t invite such a reading at first glance.

    Luckily, Hannah’s watched it way more than once.

  • Co-edited by Hannah McGregor, Julie Rak, & Erin Wunker
    Published November 15th, 2018

    CanLit — the commonly used short form for English Canadian Literature as a cultural formation and industry—has been at the heart of several recent public controversies. Why? Because CanLit is breaking open to reveal the accepted injustices at its heart. It is imperative that these public controversies and the issues that sparked them be subject to careful and thorough discussion and critique.

    Refuse provides a critical and historical context to help readers understand conversations happening about CanLit presently. One of its goals is to foreground the perspectives of those who have been changing the conversation about what CanLit is and what it could be. Topics such as literary celebrity, white power, appropriation, class, rape culture, and the ongoing impact of settler colonialism are addressed by a diverse gathering of writers from across Canada.

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  • Release Date: September 20th, 2022

    How do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected or completed? In A Sentimental Education, Hannah McGregor, the podcaster behind Witch, Please and Secret Feminist Agenda, explores what podcasting has taught her about doing feminist scholarship not as a methodology but as a way of life.

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