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2012 Spring Reunion: The Department of English presents
a Poetry reading and book signing by
 Richard Greene from Boxing the Compass*
*Winner of 2010 GG Lit Award for Poetry
31 May 2012 - 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. - JHB 100
ALL ARE WELCOME |
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U of T Alumni Association
Annual General Meeting
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Dr. Samantha Nutt
Saturday, June 2, 2-4 pm
Convocation Hall, 31 King's College Circle |
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QS World University rankings 2011 -
University of Toronto Department of English is ranked best English Program in Canada, and placed 7th in world!
News & Sessional Dates:
- Monday, May 21, 2012:
- Victoria Day:
- Friday, June 22, 2012:
- F Courses end, Y Courses stop:
- Monday, June 25, 2012:
- Summer F Courses Exam period:
- Monday, June 25, 2012:
- Summer Y Courses Break:
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English Newsmakers:
- Congratulations to Kyle Wyatt (Woodhouse prize winner) and Natalie Papoutsis (Leech prize winner)
- Placement News: Emily Simmons was appointed to a one-year Visiting Assistant Professorship at Concordia University in Montreal.
Placement News: Yuri Cowan was appointed to a tenure-track position at the rank of Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
- Congratulations to Katie Larson, Bob McGill, Larry Switzky and David Taylor who have each won a Connaught New Researcher Award.
- Congratulations to Nancy Kang who was appointed to a tenure-track position at the University of Baltimore.
- Placement News: Cynthia Quarrie was appointed to a three-year CLTA and John Corrigan was awarded a Fox Center Post-doctoral Fellowship.
- Prof. Paul Stevens is honoured with Guggenheim Fellowship!
- Placement News: Stephen Yeager, Virginia Lee Strain and Kailin Wright win new tenure-track jobs.
- Alan Ackerman and Sara Salih have both been appointed to the rank of full professor.
- Randy McLeod has also been promoted to the rank of Full Professor effective 1 December 2011.
- Marlene Goldman has been appointed to the rank of full professor.
- Daniel Karasik, 4th year English Major has won the Grand Prize in the CBC short story contest.
- Alpen Razi has been granted a fellowship by the American Antiquarian Society
- Congratulations: Piers Brown has been appointed to a tenure-track position at West Virginia University and Alice Ridout has been appointed to a second CLTA at Algoma University in Sault Ste Marie.
Events:
- Thursday, May 17, 2012:
- MRRG with Michael Levenson:
- Saturday, May 26, 2012:
- ACCUTE conference in Kitchener-Waterloo:
- Thursday, May 31, 2012:
- 2012 Spring Reunion - Richard Greene Reading:
- Saturday, June 02, 2012:
- inFORMING CONTENT Workshop:
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In Print:
- The collection, Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture (UBC 2010), which was co-edited by Cheryl Suzack, was selected for the 2012 Canadian Women's Studies Association Outstanding Scholarship Prize, Mar 29
- The University of Toronto Quarterly, under the editorship of David Galbraith and Victor Li, has been awarded a three-year SSHRC grant from the Aid to Scholarly Journals competition, Mar 20
- Announcing the publication of The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature, edited by Ato Quayson, with contributions from Uzoma Esonwanne, Daniel Heath Justice, and Victor Li, Mar 20
- Announcing the release of… University of Toronto Quarterly Volume 81, Number 1, Winter 2012, The Future of Northrop Frye: Centennial Perspectives, Guest Editors: Germaine Warkentin and Linda Hutcheon Feb 14
- Andrea Charise responds to Margaret Wente on OAS, Letters to the Editor, Globe and Mail, Feb 3
- Adam Hammond and our new course, The Digital Text, are featured in U of T News & e-Bulletin
- Cruelty & Laughter: new book by Simon Dickie explores the vicious underside of eighteenth-century culture. Read more about Cruelty & Laughter in FAS News (also posted through the U of T eBulletin under Research News).
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