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Download the Department of English Fall 2010 Newsletter in pdf HERE (please note: this is a 2.4 MB file)	Download the Department of English Winter 2009 Newsletter in pdf HERE (please note: this is a 1.2 MB file)	Download the Department of English Summer 2009 Newsletter in pdf HERE (please note: this is a 3.5 MB file)

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

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).

Happy Birthday Charles Dickens! 07 February 2012: Enjoy reading an interview with Professor John Baird through the UofT eBulletin: http://www.utoronto.ca/ebulletin/12-02-07/bulletin-12-02-07.html (or direct link to read the article on-line): http://www.news.utoronto.ca/happy-birthday-charles-dickens

Prof. Marlene Goldman in UofT eBulletin: "Reframing the Story of Alzheimer's Disease," Dec 1

Prof. Paul Stevens, commenting on Milton's "Clotted Gore,"responds to an article by Neil Reynolds, 'The renunciation of theocratic force', Globe and Mail, Nov 15

Prof. Holger Syme on the authorship controversy: " How Shakespeare could write Shakespeare," in The Montreal Gazzette, Nov 1

Get tips from English graduate & instructor Elissa Gurman in Maclean's on creating University class schedule that won't destroy your soul.

John Baird's lecture on and reading from Dickens’ Great Expectations at the Park Branch of the Toronto Public Library, has been made available as a terrific podcast. It is available at http://www.torontoreviewofbooks.com/category/podcast/

Read Dr. Mike Johnstone's short story "For you, Endlessly" in the Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty)

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

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

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