Frances Sprout

English Professor at Vancouver Island University, Canadian Literature

[Frances Sprout @ProfFMSprout]

@bookgaga TY! This has long been a favourite of mine -- so pleased to see Walcott receive @GriffinPoetry Lifetime Recognition Award!

[Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga]

"The time will come / when, with elation, / you will greet yourself arriving / at your own door" Derek Walcott #todayspoem

[Frances Sprout @ProfFMSprout]

Me, backstage after completing my duties as Mace Bearer at #VIUgrad2015 What a privilege and honour!… https://t.co/XPBQDiXyhW

[Frances Sprout @ProfFMSprout]

@DanaMcFarland I know I can count on you to keep that #VIUReads going. . . and make it even more contagious, right? @VIUEnglish @alecpelyk

[Frances Sprout @ProfFMSprout]

Huge thanks, @VIUEnglish & Dean @alecpelyk. What a splendid send-off into retirement! I'll so miss your intelligence, warmth, & humour.

[Frances Sprout @ProfFMSprout]

I'll probably let this Twitter self retire along with me, but meanwhile, blogged some recent reading here: http://t.co/U2uBUbXbZI #VIUReads

[Frances Sprout @ProfFMSprout]

Submitted grades, Prepped for Retirement with some fabulous books: Today, Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk, absolutely captivating. #VIUReads

[Frances Sprout @ProfFMSprout]

Reading to eyetwitch this weekend in preparation for next week's classes. Elegance of the Hedgehog, ENGL 280; Gaston's Sointula, ENGL 331

[Frances Sprout @ProfFMSprout]

So pleased to have had Ursula Vaira visit ENGL 331 to talk about & read from her Journey Poems: And See What Happens @caitlinpress #VIUReads

[Frances Sprout @ProfFMSprout]

Lively student presentation in #ENGL280 on The Invention of Hugo Cabret (which I'm currently reading w 6yo g'daughter) #VIUReads #ParisLit

[Frances Sprout @ProfFMSprout]

Waiting for my son to update me with news of DIL's Labour. . . might be a bit distracted teaching today. #ProfsHaveLivesOutsideClassroomToo

[Frances Sprout @ProfFMSprout]

One of my students brought crème brûlée to accompany her presentation #engl280 #nomnom

[Frances Sprout @ProfFMSprout]

Looking forward to seeing what my students think of Ursula Vaira's And See What Happened: The Journey Poems. #ENGL331 #WestCoastLit #boats

[CBC Books @cbcbooks]

"It's fiction, what I do, but it's also profoundly true." - @MaracleLee on The Next Chapter: http://t.co/meJL619QVm

[Frances Sprout @ProfFMSprout]

Turned a sharp Parisian corner today, moving from Richardson's The Emperor of Paris to Lauren B. Davis' The Radiant City. #ENGL280 #VIUReads

[Frances Sprout @ProfFMSprout]

8:20 Sunday morning, I've already marked 7 papers. Short papers, yes, but I probably wrote 70-100 words of feedback on each. #lifeacademic

[Frances Sprout @ProfFMSprout]

Few books bear rereading as many times as I've read (& taught) Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach. #BCLiterature #VIUreads #BoatsInLiterature

[Frances Sprout @ProfFMSprout]

#fridayreads John Glassco's Memoirs of Montparnasse, supplemental to my #ENGL280. What fun! #Paris,a little romantic, a lot outré! #VIUReads

[Frances Sprout @ProfFMSprout]

Great ENGL 331 class discussing M. Wylie Blanchet's The Curve of Time, torn between admiration, dismay, amusement, disgust. #BCLit #VIUReads

[Frances Sprout @ProfFMSprout]

Having such fun teaching ENGL 280, discussing C.S. Richardson's The Emperor of Paris -- books, stories, bakeries, art, Paris. #VIUReads