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- The Matter of Song in Early Modern England | a forthcoming book by Katherine Larson
- Poetics of the Pillory: English Literature and Seditious Libel 1660-1820 | a forthcoming book by Thomas Keymer
- Man should rejoice, by Hugh MacLennan: A Critical Edition | a new book edited by Colin Hill
- Modernist Life Histories | a new book by Daniel Newman
- The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology | a forthcoming book edited by Karina Vernon
- The Aesthetics of Senescence: Ageing, Population, and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel | a new book by Andrea Charise
- Singing in a Foreign Land: Anglo-Jewish Poetry, 1812-1847 | a new book by Karen A. Weisman
- Mathew Sergi awarded the Early Career Teaching Award for enhancing the student experience.
- Reproduction | a new novel by Ian Williams; winner of 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize
- Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England | a forthcoming book by Urvashi Chakravarty
- The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Language | a forthcoming book edited by Lynne Magnusson (with David Schalkwyk)
- From Political Economy to Economics through Nineteenth-Century Literature | a new book edited by Audrey Jaffe
- Indigenous Women's Writing and the Cultural Study of Law | a new book by Cheryl Suzack
- Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics | a new book by Tom Keymer
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Highlights:
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Congratulations to Dana Seitler on winning The Ludwik and Estelle Jus Memorial Human Rights Prize.
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Congratulations to Julie Mattison on winning the Medieval Academy of America's Schallek Fellowship.
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Congratulations to Ian Williams (PhD, 2005) on winning this years Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel Reproduction.
Photo by The Canadian Press, Chris Young
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News & Notices:
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Congratulations to Maxwell Koyama for winning the 2019-20 Adam Penn Gilders Scholarship in Creative Writing. Click here for more information.
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Bob McGill has just launched a free online anthology of Canadian poems, short stories, and essays about the Vietnam War;
available here.
English has revised its Undergraduate curriculum.
Indigenous, postcolonial literature among new requirements.
In the Media:
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Events:
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English Newsmakers:
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Listen to Professor Nick Mount's take on the humanities evolving instead of declining. More on CBC Radio.
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Professor Katherine William's seminar on disability at Innis College creates a sense of community. More in UofT News.
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André Babyn, English PhD student, releases his new novel "Evie of the Deepthorn". More information here.
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Professor Marlene Goldman discusses sequel to "The Handmaid's Tale" on CTV News.
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Anthony Oliviera of English talks about the sentencing of Bruce McArthur. More in CTV News
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Daniel Scott Tysdal's poem received runner up Morton Poetry Prize.
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"Randy Boyagoda's new novel is both deeply Catholic and Deeply funny" in The Walrus.
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"U of T's Lost River" read about Professor Andrea Most's course Ecocriticism in the Faculty of Arts & Science News.
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"Ideas to Live by: A Conversation with Mari Ruti" by Tajja Isen and Philip Sayers in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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"Smartphones and the abdication of parental responsibility" Read Ira Wells in the Globe & Mail.
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Read English Professor Tom Keymer on 'How to be a great Journal Editor" in the Times Higher.
- Read the Accolades page for news regarding our faculty.
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