Welcome to the U of T Department of English
- 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 by edited by Karina Vernon
- An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English | a new book edited by Donna Bennett and Russell Brown
- 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.
- Indigenous Women's Writing and the Cultural Study of Law | a new book by Cheryl Suzack
- Reproduction | a new novel by Ian Williams; winner of 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize
- Evie of the Deepthorn | a forthcoming novel by Andre Babyn
- 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
Highlights:
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Congratulations to Scott Rayter on his promotion to Associate Professor, Teaching Stream.
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Congratulations to Christina Turner on winning the Canadian Literature's 60th Anniversary Graduate Student Essay Prize.
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Congratulations to Heidi Craig on being appointed on a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at the Texas A&M University.
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Photo by The Canadian Press, Chris Young
Congratulations to Ian Williams (PhD, 2005) on winning this years Scotiabank Gillars Prize for his novel
Reproduction.
Congratulations to Deni Kasa (Early Modern, 2017, Stevens) and to Nathan Murray (Modern British, 2018, Henderson) on winning a SSHRC Post-doctoral Fellowships: Deni will hold his at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Professor Sarah Mortimer (Christ Church) and Nathan his at the University of Virginia under the supervision of Professor Rita Felski.
Congratulations to Zak Jones on winning 2019-2020 JHI Program for the Arts funding for
Dirty Laundry series.
English has revised its Undergraduate curriculum. Indigenous, postcolonial literature among new requirements.
In the Media:
Events:
- Thursday, January 30, 2020.
- Reading with Susan Swan- 2020 Writer-in-Residence.
- Wednesday, February 12, 2020.
- Wolves in the Scale: Hearing Nature in Late Eighteenth-Century Music.
- Wednesday, March 11, 2020.
- Mapping Sex Across the Globe.
- Thursday, March 26, 2020.
- The 2020 Vincent De Luca Lecture in the Nineteenth-Century Studies.
- Friday, March 27, 2020.
- Toronto Old English Colloquium.
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English Newsmakers:
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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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George E. Clarke comments on the recent performance of The Merchant of Venice at an Ontario private school in the CBC Radio: Metro Morning.
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English professor Ian Lancashire turns to neuroscience to detect Alzheimer's disease by analyzing texts. Read more in Arts and Science News.
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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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Read Chris Kelleher on "An American in the Promised Land (of Canada)" in the University Affairs.
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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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Read Adam Hammond on "Why running a marathon is a terrible reason to travel" in The Globe and Mail.
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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.
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Read Mandy Pipher on consequences of devaluing a humanities degree in the Toronto Star.
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Get tips from English graduate & instructor Elissa Gurman in Maclean's on creating University class schedule that won't destroy your soul.
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MA CRW Alumna Jesse Ruddock's debut novel Shot-Blue was reviewed by The New York Times.
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Professor Nick Mount explores the rise of our literary canon in the 1960s and argues we’ve moved beyond it to a better place. Read more abut his book Arrival: The Story of CanLit in The Toronto Star.
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Read the Accolades page for news regarding our faculty.
