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Highlights:

Rosemary Sullivan Receives Order of Canada:
The Department of English is delighted to congratulate Professor Rosemary Sullivan on her recent appointment as an Officer in the Order of Canada! Read more.

Cambridge University Press Launches New Journal:
Professor Ato Quayson (Director of Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies) is pleased to announce the publication of the new Cambridge Journal in Postcolonial Literary Inquiry. Click here to read more

Toronto City Council Appoints Poet Laureate:
Congratulations to Professor George Elliott Clarke on his appointment as Toronto's 4th Poet Laureate! For more information, please click here.

Remembering Northrop Frye:
This year marks the 100th birthday of the late Northrop Frye. Scholars, writers, alumni and fans around the world have been remembering and celebrating the legendary professor who transformed literary criticism. Read more.

Linda Hutcheon Graduate Scholarship
The Linda Hutcheon Graduate Scholarship Fund supports PhD students in their study of theory, contemporary literature, or interdisciplinary study. Your generous support is appreciated! https://donate.utoronto.ca/english.

Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature Appointment:
The Department of English is delighted to announce that Professor Smaro Kamboureli, Professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph, Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Critical Studies in Canadian Literature, and Director of the TransCanada Institute, has accepted the position of the Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature.

News & Sessional Dates:

Monday, June 10, 2013:: Final Date to Cancel "F" Courses:

Friday, June 21, 2013:: Summer 2013 F Classes End:

Monday, June 24, 2013:: Exam Period (F) / Term Tests (Y):

Monday, July 01, 2013:: Canada Day (University Closed):

Tuesday, July 02, 2013:: Graduation Requests Begin for Nov 2013 Convocation:

In Print:

The Quill and Quire conducted an interview with faculty member and Toronto Poet Laureate, George Elliott Clarke. Read more (external link).
Professor Heather Jackson has been quoted in a New York Times article "Between the Recipes, Scribbles Speak Volumes".
Professor Deidre Lynch has been interviewed by U of T's Research and Innovations Office regarding the enduring popularity of Pride and Prejudice.
Professor Thomas Keymer's article on Samuel Johnson and the history of aviation has been published on the Oxford University Press blog.
Professors Emeriti Linda Hutcheon, Alexander Leggatt, and Jill L. Levenson, and Associate Professor Katherine Larson, have contributed to the Fall 2012 issue of the University of Toronto Quarterly.
George Elliott Clarke has received acclaim for two collections to which he contributed.
Julie Mehta receives acclaim for her translation of Rabindranath Tagore's The Post Office, and wins the Grant Desi Achievers Award 2012.
Adam Hammond is in the Summer 2012 issue of U of T Magazine, "Words, by the Numbers: What can a computer reveal about a work of fiction?"
Special Journal Issue, "Aging, Old Age, Memory, Aesthetics", in Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities (edited by Marlene Goldman, Andrea Charise, Linda Hutcheon, and Michael Hutcheon).
MACRW Alumnus Helen Guri was nominated for a Trillium award for her book of Poetry, Match, and is interviewed in the Walrus. June 25.
Michael Cobb was interviewed in Maclean's about his new book Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled.
Phoebe Wang and Paul Franz have jointly received a Launch Pad Award for Emerging Talent in the Arts from the University of Toronto Arts Council, for a proposal submitted on behalf of Echolocation.
Heather Jessup was shortlisted for the 2012 Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize for The Lightning Field, June12.

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Events:

Thursday, May 30, 2013:: Spring Reunion with George Elliott Clarke:

Thursday, September 19, 2013:: Talk by Professor John Schad:

Tuesday, September 24, 2013:: WINCS session with Professor Stefanie Markovits:

Tuesday, November 05, 2013:: WINCS Session: Michael-Eberle Sinatra:

Thursday, November 21, 2013:: WINCS Session: Angela Esterhammer:

English Newsmakers:

Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Sally-Beth MacLean, who has received a 2012 SSHRC Connection Grant!
Prof. Tom Keymer has been invited to give the Clarendon Lectures at Oxford in Fall 2014!
Professor Emeritus Dennis Duffy has been awarded an international award of merit!
Lynne Magnusson will deliver the Shakespeare Birthday Lecture in April 2015 and direct a Folger Symposium in 2015 on Shakespeare's language.
Congratulations to all of our faculty members who were successful in this year’s SSHRC Insight Grant competition!
Congratulations to Dr. Vikki Visvis for receiving the Ranjini (Rini) Ghosh Excellence in Teaching Award!
George Elliot Clarke will be participating in a number of events across Toronto for National Poetry Month!
Congratulations to Andrea Charise on receiving an offer of a tenure-track position in the Health Studies Program at UTSC!
Congratulations to Professor Katie Larson for winning a short-term research fellowship at the Folger Library!
Graduate student Morgan Vanek is a finalist in the Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition!
Congratulations to Professor Marjorie Rubright for winning the Francis Bacon Foundation Fellowship in Renaissance England!
Cheryl Suzack has been offered the Eakin Visiting Fellowship in Canadian Studies at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.
Adam Hammond was interviewed by the CBC Radio One program "Fresh Air" regarding books and their digital counterparts. Click here for the broadcast.
Toronto City Council has appointed George Elliott Clarke Toronto's new Poet Laureate. Congratulations!
The North American Conference on British Studies announced that Simon Dickie is this year's winner of the prestigious John Ben Snow Foundation Prize for Cruelty and Laughter.
Congratulations to Jeannine DeLombard for winning a SSHRC Connections Grant for the 48th Annual Conference on Editorial Problems, "Editing Early African American Literature."
Congratulations to A.F. Moritz, Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Instructor, whose book of poems, The New Measures, has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award: Poetry. (Oct, 2012)

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