Welcome to the U of T Department of English
- In Our Translated World, a new book edited by Chelva Kanaganayakam
- Denotatively, Technically, Literally, a special issue co-edited by Cannon Schmitt
- Constructing the Canon of Early Drama, a new book by Jeremy Lopez
- The Library of the Sidneys of Penshurst Place circa 1665, a new book edited by Germaine Warkentin
- Reading Class through Shakespeare, Donne and Milton, a new book by Chris Warley
- The Stationers' Company and the Printers of London, a new book by Peter Blayney
- Theatrical Liberalism, a new book by Andrea Most
- From Little London to Little Bengal, a new book by Dan White
- Arbitrary Rule, a new book by Mary Nyquist
- The Treacherous Imagination, a new book by Robert McGill
- Fighting Words, a new book by Ira Wells
- The Writing Moment, a new guide by Daniel Scott Tysdal
- The Graduate Students beat the Faculty 24 to 9 and take back the trophy
- Jackman Humanities Building: Home of the Department of English
- Dante's House, a new book by Richard Greene
- Lasso the Wind, a new book by George Elliot Clarke
- Once We Had A Country, a new book by Robert McGill
- Speed Readers CIBC Run for the Cure
- Professor Harvey's Department of English Yoga
- Work in Nineteeth-Century Studies Group (WINCS)
- U of T Eighteenth-Century Studies Group (ECSG)
- The GEA Website
- Linda Hutcheon receiving the Molson Prize
Highlights:
 |
Annabel Patterson has been granted an honorary degree by the University of Toronto.
The Department of English is delighted to congratulate former colleague and now Sterling Professor of English Emeritus at Yale.
|
|
Denise Cruz has won an honourable mention for her book Transpacific Femininities: The Making of the Modern Filipina. The Department of English is delighted to congratulate Professor Denise Cruz on this achievement. The Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) has awarded her book an honourable mention for Outstanding Book published in 2012 in Literary Criticism.
|
 |
Will Robins is one of the recipients of this year's Faculty of Arts and Science Outstanding Teaching Awards.
The Department of English is delighted to congratulate Professor Will Robins on his win. This award recognizes his outstanding contributions in undergraduate classroom education, course design, curriculum, development and innovative teaching methods.
|
News & Sessional Dates:
- Friday, April 18, 2014.
- Good Friday - University Offices Closed.
- Monday, April 21, 2014.
- Easter Monday - University Offices OPEN.
Read more news
In the Media:
- Dr. Clare Battershill, one of our PhD's, who currently teaches creative writing at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom will be debuting a short-story collection titled Circus, in April. She is being featured in the Spring 2014 issue of U of T Magazine.
- Dr. Adam Hammond, one of our PhDs, now a SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Guelph, describes cruises as "a genuinely fun thing," in his article featured in the Globe & Mail
- Professor Mari Ruti has a fascinating new article on Happiness and Its Discontents in the Chronicle of Higher Education. See also letters written by Professors Emeriti Germaine Warkentin on the value of Book History and Patricia Brückmann on the new Pope in last Friday's Globe and Mail
Read more News In Print
Read more about English Newsmakers
Events:
- Thursday, May 01, 2014.
- Digital Medieval Studies: Omeka Workshop.
- Friday, May 02, 2014.
- Toronto Old English Colloquium.
- Friday, May 02, 2014.
- Toronto Old English Colloquium.
- Friday, May 09, 2014.
- Canadian Milton Seminar IX.
Read more events
The Jack McClelland Writer-in-Residence:
David Bezmozgis is the Department of English's Jack McClelland writer-in-residence for January to April 2014.
English Newsmakers:
- Congratulations to Dr. Siobhan O'Flynn who has a contract with Routledge for a book, Mapping Digital Narrativity: Theory, Design, Practice.
- Congratulations to Michael Prior, a student in the MA in English program, who has won the Magma Poetry Short Poem Award.
- Why you can and should write poetry an article featured in U of T News.
Read the Accolades page for news regarding our faculty.
