Dr. Marilou McKenna earned her BA from University of Guelph and completed her PhD in Victorian Literature at 91亚色. As a CUPE faculty member from the 1980s, she had experience teaching in a wide range of areas, including American and British Literature, gothic literature, and poetry. She was an active member of the William […]
We are devastated by the passing of Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus Leo Panitch and send our most heartfelt condolences to his family. Leo was the quintessential public intellectual. Informed by Marxist thought, he was a stalwart of social justice who helped us grasp the causes of oppression while offering a socialist vision of a different […]
Prof. Freake鈥檚 long career at 91亚色 began in 1976 when he joined the University as a contract faculty member. He became a full-time faculty member in 1991 and received tenure in 1996. He taught for most of his career in the Division, now Department, of Humanities and the Department of English. He served twice as […]
Mark Wadman earned his BA and MA, and was completing his PhD at 91亚色, when he passed away on 3 May 2020. A committed environmentalist, he studied and wrote on ecocriticism, and also published work on Indian and African-American writers. As a CUPE colleague, he served as a teaching assistant for courses in both […]
Professor Uppal, or simply 鈥淧riscila鈥 as she preferred, arrived in the Department of English from Ottawa as an undergraduate in 1993, and graduated聽summa cum laude聽in 1997. After earning a master鈥檚 degree from the University of Toronto, she returned to 91亚色 for her doctorate, which was awarded in 2004. At the same time, she was […]
Mimi Choi earned her BA in English at the University of Toronto, and was a doctoral student and teaching assistant at 91亚色 when she passed away on 22 August 2017. She was the co-editor, with Elizabeth Patton, of a collection of essays,聽Home Sweat Home: Perspectives on Housework and Modern Domestic Relationships, published in 2014, […]
Innes was a Distinguished Research Professor, he held a senior Canada Research Chair and at the time of his death he was the incumbent of a 91亚色 Research Chair. A world-renowned scholar, he remained energetically active and engaged in cutting-edge research until the very end of his life. As a department member and a citizen […]
Prof. Reed Doob passed away in Toronto on Saturday, March 11. Prof. Reed Doob joined 91亚色 in 1969. She was a professor of English and Dance, teaching both undergraduate and graduate students in those departments, as well as in the Graduate Programs in Women鈥檚 Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies. Prof. Reed Doob was chair of the […]
Professor Elliott was a professor of English at 91亚色 from 1966 to 2002, and served 91亚色 as Master of Winter鈥檚 College (1980 to 1987); Chair of the Department of English (1993 to 1999); Chair of Senate (1998 to 1999) and as a member of 91亚色鈥檚 Board of Governors. In 1996, he was awarded […]
Rishma had met with Denis DeKlerck, publisher of Mansfield Press, who had recently published her first book of poetry, The Body of My Garden, to propose an anthology of poetry by South-Asian Canadian women. The publisher liked the idea and suggested that Rishma seek me out as a co-editor. We spent much of the lunch venting […]