Welcome to the U of T Department of English
- Congratulations to our SSHRC winners! Professors Simon Dickie, Jeannine DeLombard, Mary Nyquist, Lynne Magnusson and Robert McGill
- Modernism: Keywords, a new book co-authored by Melba Cuddy-Keane
- Literature and the Bible: A Reader, a new book co-edited by Mark Knight
- Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism, a new book by Ato Quayson
- Critical Collaborations, a new book co-edited by Smaro Kamboureli
- 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
- The Treacherous Imagination, a new book by Robert McGill
- 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
- 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
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The Department of English is delighted to congratulate Claire Duncan in winning the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for her terrific contribution to Elizabeth Harvey's ENG220Y1Y Shakespeare class.
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The Department of English is delighted to congratulate Anthony Oliveira in winning the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for his wonderful contribution to Chris Warley's ENG202Y1Y British Literature: Medieval to Romantic class.
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The Departments of English at St. George and Scarborough campus is delighted to congratulate Joel Rodgers in winning the Graduate Teaching Assistant Award.
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News & Sessional Dates:
- Tuesday, July 29, 2014.
- Final Date to Cancel Summer S Course.
- Tuesday, August 12, 2014.
- Summer S and Y classes end.
- Wednesday, August 13, 2014.
- Final examination period for S or Y section code courses.
- Monday, September 01, 2014.
- Labour Day- University closed.
- Monday, September 08, 2014.
- Classes begin in F and Y section code courses.
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In the Media:
- Joanne Leow, PhD candidate, discusses spending part of her life doing something she loves unconditionally in her story
- How our creative-writing program that admits just seven students a year is cultivating the country’s next generation of literary giants is cultivating the country’s next generation of literary giants. Read the story here in U of T Magazine.
- Prof. Dana Seitler discusses trigger warnings in the following piece,"Inside Higher Education."
Announcement:
Our former chair,
Brian Corman, is stepping down as Vice-Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies after an outstandingly successful term of five years. We wish him well as he takes his well-earned administrative leave during 2014-15.
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Events:
- Wednesday, July 30, 2014.
- An Hour of Talk and Conversation with Caitlin Sweet.
- Wednesday, October 01, 2014.
- 1 October 2014: Alexander Lecture by Professor Steven Connor.
- Friday, October 03, 2014.
- World War I and Literary History.
- Tuesday, October 14, 2014.
- WINCS event.
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English Newsmakers:
- Congratulations to Laura Ritland, a student in the MA CRW program for winning the 2014 Far Horizons Poetry Award. Her poem "Vincent, in the Dream of Zundert," was chosen from 800 entries.
- Congratulations to Ph.D. student Jenna Hunnef who received a major prize for her paper, "A Doubtful Outlaw in the Old I.T.: The Indigenous Repoliticization of Ned Christie in Robert J. Conley’s Ned Christie’s War,” Jenna won Best Student Paper at this year's international Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) conference.
- Congratulations to Undergraduate student Brooke Xiang who was awarded a University of Toronto Excellence Award for her research project "Diasporic and Native Literatures in Canada: Performance as Politics / Politics as Performance."
Read the Accolades page for news regarding our faculty.
