Welcome to the U of T Department of English

Poetics of the Pillory: English Literature and Seditious Libel 1660-1820 | a forthcoming book by Thomas Keymer

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Language | a forthcoming book edited by Lynne Magnusson (with David Schalkwyk)

Man should rejoice, by Hugh MacLennan: A Critical Edition | a new book edited by Colin Hill

The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology | a forthcoming book by edited by Karina Vernon

An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English | a new book by edited by Donna Bennett and Russell Brown

Singing in a Foreign Land: Anglo-Jewish Poetry, 1812-1847 | a new book by Karen A. Weisman

Bad Logic: Reasoning about Desire in the Victorian Novel | a new book by Daniel Wright

The Essential John Reibetanz | a new book by John Reibetanz and Jeffery Donaldson

War is Here: The Vietnam War and Canadian Literature| a new book by Robert McGill

Inspired by Northrop Frye, Apala travels halfway around world to study English at U of T

Indigenous Women's Writing and the Cultural Study of Law | a new book by Cheryl Suzack

Wild Child: Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist Ethics | a new book by Naomi Morgenstern

Highlights:

Congratulations to Christina Turner on winning the Canadian Literature's 60th Anniversary Graduate Student Essay Prize.

Congratulations to Heidi Craig on being appointed on a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at the Texas A&M University.

(Photo Credit: Steve Payne)

Congratulations to Al Moritz on being appointed Poet Laureate of Toronto.

Congratulations to Nancy Kang (African-American, 2007, Hutcheon) on winning the Canada Research Chair (II) in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Manitoba.

English graduate student Junran Yan receives Edwin S.H. Leong Scholarship.
Honouring Frankenstein's 200th anniversary: U of T scholars hold week-long celebration.
Read "Industry Interview with Robert McGill" on Creative Writing in The Word on the Street.
English PhD candidate Mandy Pipher on "Louis C.K.'s dangerous and lazy conclusion that men are gross" in The Toronto Star.

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Anthony Oliviera of English talks about the sentencing of Bruce McArthur. More in CTV News
Daniel Scott Tysdal's poem received runner up Morton Poetry Prize.
George E. Clarke comments on the recent performance of The Merchant of Venice at an Ontario private school in the CBC Radio: Metro Morning.
English professor Ian Lancashire turns to neuroscience to detect Alzheimer's disease by analyzing texts. Read more in Arts and Science News.
"Randy Boyagoda's new novel is both deeply Catholic and Deeply funny" in The Walrus.
"U of T's Lost River" read about Professor Andrea Most's course Ecocriticism in the Faculty of Arts & Science News.
Read Chris Kelleher on "An American in the Promised Land (of Canada)" in the University Affairs.
"Ideas to Live by: A Conversation with Mari Ruti" by Tajja Isen and Philip Sayers in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Read Adam Hammond on "Why running a marathon is a terrible reason to travel" in The Globe and Mail.
"Smartphones and the abdication of parental responsibility" Read Ira Wells in the Globe & Mail.

Read English Professor Tom Keymer on 'How to be a great Journal Editor" in the Times Higher.

Read Mandy Pipher on consequences of devaluing a humanities degree in the Toronto Star.
Get tips from English graduate & instructor Elissa Gurman in Maclean's on creating University class schedule that won't destroy your soul.
MA CRW Alumna Jesse Ruddock's debut novel Shot-Blue was reviewed by The New York Times.
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.