John Currie, PhD

LOVED Red Tide: a macabre maritime misadventure A musical! Book & Lyrics by Nam Nguyen, Music by Wilfred Moeschter. In April 2016, fishermen in central Vietnam wake up to the disturbing sight of 115 tons of fish carcasses washed up along 200 km of their shores. @TheatreSheridan

Kudos to @GeddyLee3's brilliance, writing a music memoir with a chapter on the horrors of the holocaust, including moving first-person family accounts of near death and romance in the camps, to be read by an audience (I assume) that’d not normally do so.

An article about my #climatecommunication course at @iccitutm @UTM, WRI 375, by Alisa Samuel. Looking forward to teaching it next term! @utmTLC themedium.ca/learning-to-wri…

The Global March to End Fossil Fuels blogto.com/events/the-global…

@marielasthwith her book, My ABCs: #Argentina, #Brazil, #Canada: #Stories, #Letters, and #Poems about #Identity and #Belonging. Hear the #podcast she did in my class at marielasol.com/ @utm @iccitutm @utmTLC

Fresh Roma tomatoes from a #neighbour

It’s the small things: finally being able to #lock up my #bike at the store. ...and there are no small things... @Misscyclingnow @SustainSauga @citymississauga @fietsprofessor

12 new writers launch their books, made in 1 term in #guyallen WRI 420 Making a Book course @iccitutm @UTM @utmengdrama Curious about PWC? Join us! Arrive early!

Thank you @elenahasacamera of @mediagfs and @cbc @IQ_Podcast for regaling our final WRI 483 #podcastingclass with the story of your #mostexcellentcastingjourney @UTM @iccitutm

Thank you Mya Moniz for speaking to my WRI 380 #podcastingclass about the casting you do for @Restcentre and on the issue of #hiddenhomelessness in Peel Region. @iccit @UTM @utmTLC

Thank you @EmmaMci of @thenarwhalca for visiting my WRI 375 Writing about Environment & Ecology class. A great discussion! #solutionsjournalism #climatecommunication @iccitutm @utm @utmTLC

Thank you Mya Moniz for speaking to my Podcasting class about the podcasting you do for @Restcentre a black-led, BIPOC-serving organization on a mission to end youth homelessness in Peel Region. @utm_engage @utmTLC @iccitutm @utmhccwellness @utm tinyurl.com/yfvyvu6c

Shannon Terrell's The Guest House has won the Whistler Independent Book Award for #nonfiction. I now use the book she wrote in my class with my class. Congratulations Shannon! @utmTLC @iccitutm @utm @WhistlerBook @shandalaa

Tagging and releasing monarchs with my son Mateo at @yourriverwood in his 1st day of @JrNaturalists.

Shannon Terrell, PWC alumnus and Dean’s Award winner, has had her #makingabook title #theguesthouse shortlisted for the 2022 Whistler Independent Book Awards. It is required reading in my WRI 483 class. @whistlerwriters @shandalaa @a_journal @utm @iccit @ICCITCouncil @utmTLC

In awe of the 13 writers who can now add #publishedauthor to their resumes after launching their books at @Gladstone_To upon completing WRI420H5 Making a Book @iccitutm @utm @utmTLC

Dear Prof. Currie: "I wanted to thank you for sharing job postings. I ended up applying and was offered a job within the same week. I will be writing company policies and grants, which is something that's exciting to me. My first day is today!" @utmtlc @utm #pedagogyofkindness

Today my 9-year-old son retraced the steps on the @UTM nature trail he'd taken with the @JrNaturalists to show me how to find Eastern red-backed #salamanders. Thanks M!