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Stage and Picture in the English Renaissance | a new book by John Astington

Exciting new review of REED in the TLS

Elizabeth Bishop at Work | a new book by Eleanor Cook

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

Reader in Comedy: An Anthology of Theory and Criticism | a new book by Alan Ackerman and Magda Romanska

Arthur Golding’s Morall Fabletalke and Other Renaissance Fable Translations | a new book edited by Liza Blake

Natures in Translation | a new book by Alan Bewell

Devouring Time: Nostalgia in Contemporary Shakespearean Screen Adaptations | a forthcoming book by Philippa Sheppard

Prescription and Tradition in Language: Establishing Standards across Time and Space a new book co-edited by Carol Percy

The Victorian Novel Dreams of the Real: Conventions and Ideology a new book by Audrey Jaffe

Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square a new book by Randy Boyagoda

Primal Testament a new book by Ian Lancashire

Canticles 1 a new book by George Elliott Clarke

Civic London to 1558 (3 volume set) a new book edited by Anne Lancashire

Hobbes, Sovereignty, and Early American Literature a new book by Paul Downes

Creating Legal Worlds a new book by Greig Henderson


Lucretius and Modernity: Epicurean Encounters Across Time and Disciplines a new book edited by Liza Blake

CIBC Speed Readers Run for the Cure

Stalin's Daughter a new book by Rosemary Sullivan

Those Who Write for Immortality a new book by Heather Jackson

Re-Reading Mary Wroth a new book co-edited by Katie Larson

The Graduate Students beat the Faculty by a small but significant margain

Jackman Humanities Building: Home of the Department of English

Work in Nineteeth-Century Studies Group (WINCS)

Toronto Eighteenth-Century Group (TECG)

The GEA Website

Memory Serves A new book edited, with an Afterword, by Smaro Kamboureli

Highlights:

Congratulations to Thom Dancer on being awarded a Connaught New Researcher Fellowship to continue his work on George Orwell.

Congratulations to Jeremy Lopez on being appointed editor of Shakespeare Quarterly. He joins other Department members as editors of world-class journals -- Tom Keymer of RES, Ato Quayson of the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Inquiry, and Colin Hill of UTQ.

Congratulations to Professor Denise Cruz on winning a Faculty of Arts & Science Outstanding Teaching Award. This intensely competitive award recognizes excellence in undergraduate education with a focus on classroom instruction, course design, and curriculum development.

Congratulations to Terry Robinson on winning both the Annibel Jenkins Prize for the Best Article in Performance and Theatre Studies and the Percy G. Adams Prize for the Best Article on an Eighteenth-Century Subject for her article "Becoming Somebody: Refashioning the Body Politic in Mary Robinson's Nobody," Studies in Romanticism 55 (Summer 2016): 143-184.

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In the Media:

Doyali Islam, UofT graduate and Canadian poet, discusses the poetry of stillness on CBC's Sunday Edition with Michael Enright

Congratulations to Professor Quayson, who is the co-winner of the Urban History Association’s top award in the international category for books published in 2013-2014.

Professor Emerita Rosemary Sullivan discusses her latest book, Stalin's Daughter with the Toronto Star.

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English Newsmakers:

Read Dr. Mike Johnstone's first fiction publication "For you, endlessly" in the Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty)
MA CRW Alumna Jesse Ruddock's debut novel Shot-Blue was reviewed by The New York Times.
Dr. Deirdre Baker, Professor Nick Mount and Dr. Michael Johnstone are featured in The Varsity Magazine. Read more here!
"The humanities, especially the literature of the Asian diaspora in North America, would have lost a major champion if Denise Cruz had followed her initial plan to attend medical school." Read more about Professor Cruz here.
WINCS has just been featured in the latest edition of SURGE, U of T Mississauga's resource for research-related matters. Read the article featuring Professors Danny Wright and Terry F. Robinson here.
Two fascinating stories in the Globe and Mail about distinguished Department members -- George Elliott Clarke on his role as Poet Laureate to the House of Commons and Randy Boyagoda on the challenges he faces in running a Catholic college in a secular university.

Anne Lancashire may be the first member of the Department since Marshall McLuhan to be listed in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)! Check out her credit in a recently-released Star Wars documentary. You type her name into the search box, and up she pops, just like Harrison Ford or Alec Guinness.

Read about Professor Greig Henderson's views on the connection between literature and the law in the November issue of Leaside Life!

Read the Accolades page for news regarding our faculty.

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