English Studies at the University Of Toronto

Department of English/Faculty of Arts and Science Editor: P. Coles Assistant Editor: M. Perry Summer 2009

Volume 1, Issue 1 Transformation in Communication July, 2009 By Alan Bewell Inside this issue: Welcome. The English English News: Transformation in 1 Communication Department is undergoing a radical transformation in The Post-English Life of Brian 1 how it communicates with its students, alumni, and Eleanor Cook’s Preferred Form of 3 retired faculty. We have a Learning English Faculty Members Cozy 4 new website and a newslet- up to Science ter, which is appearing for New Faculty 7 the first time in both a printed and an electronic Awards & Accolades 9 form. An alumni email The new home of the Department of English, the Jackman Humanities Building listserve will soon be up Ted Chamberlin 10 appreciation of the rich citement and creativity of and running. All of this Placements 11 activity is part of an effort history and geographical this community. to keep in closer touch with diversity of the English lan- Donna Bennett 12 The newsletter and our that large community of guage and the cultures that new website are inextrica- Rosemary Sullivan: Villa Air-Bel 13 people who in all sorts of have developed from it. bly tied to each other: the English is as diverse as the ways are interested in events from the new web- St. George Undergraduate News 13 knowing what is happening people who speak it. Com- site should be more up-to- in English at the University munication will help us to date and will inform the Russell Brown 14 of Toronto. At the core of strengthen this very diverse content of the newsletter, all our activities is our edu- community and to allow while the newsletter will Graduate News 15 not only be published peri- cational mission to foster a you to become more ac- Ruth Harvey 16 deeper understanding and tively involved in the ex- continued on page 2 The World’s a Stage for Jeremy 17 Lopez The Post-English Life of Brian Hugh MacCallum 18

Annual Spring Reunion 21 By Pamela Coles Brian Corman as Dean of mittee of the Governing Even the bleak mid-winter the School of Graduate Council approved the ap- Representative Poetry Online 23 News brings its boons. In Febru- Studies at the University of pointment of Professor 24 ary of this year, the Agenda Toronto for a five-year Corman as Vice-Provost, Highlights From 2008-2009 term, beginning July 1 Graduate Education for a Committee of the Aca- Support the English Department 26 demic Board approved the 2009 and ending June 30, concurrent term. Come appointment of Professor 2014. The Executive Com- Update your Alumni Information 28 continued on page 2

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Transformation in Communication continued from page 1 odically, but also will be website primarily functioned students. In the future we “”The lyf so short, the available in digital form for as essentially a relatively want build upon that rela- download at any time from stable repository of informa- tionship to further our edu- craft so long to lerne.” the website. Opening more tion, usually updated annu- cational mission and to lines of communication with ally, we have now redes- strengthen the ways in which —Chaucer you will allow us to keep igned it in the hope that it English can continue to play you informed of what is hap- will be visited regularly and a valuable role in the lives of pening in English at the Uni- often. In addition to provid- our past students. versity of Toronto and of ing information about our This newsletter has been co- upcoming events that may be faculty and staff and about edited by Marguerite Perry of interest to you. Hope- our undergraduate and [email protected] fully, through the website graduate programs and and Pamela Coles and the Newsletter we will be courses, we are now provid- . They would be to participate more fully in and events notices. If you the creativity and excitement want to know about English- delighted to hear from you if of English at the University related events and activities you have any comments or of Toronto.If you haven’t at the University of Toronto, suggestions. yet visited the website, this is the place to go. You please do: will also now find on the We hope you enjoy the www.utoronto.ca/english. website an “Alumni” page. newsletter. You will see that it repre- The success of English stud- sents a fairly dramatic change ies at the U of T has always Alan Bewell from what we had in the been fundamentally bound past. Where before the up with the success of our

The Post-English Life of Brian continued from page 1 the summer, the life of Brian in a number of administrative and guidance to the Univer- will get a whole lot more capacities since 1997 when he sity seems to ever broaden. interesting! became the Chair of the De- Each of the University of To- partment of English, Faculty ronto campuses have benefit- Professor Corman is hardly a of Arts and Science at the St. ted from his diplomacy and stranger to administrative George campus and also the insight and those that have work. Nor is he a stranger to Graduate Chair of the tri- worked with him have long SGS. It will likely be the campus graduate English de- admired the humour-suffused scope and scale of the work partment. For nearly a dec- gravitas with which he ap- that will be new to him once ade, he was a member of the proaches all aspects of his he settles into Simcoe Hall. Governing Council and his academic ambassadorship. He has served the University capacity to bring leadership continued on page 3

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The Post-English Life of Brian continued from page 2 Nothing, we suspect will which he was Chair. He will faces are daunting, he cer- change about that. During improve and streamline the tainly will not be tackling what he foresees will be a pro- services at SGS. Anyone famil- them alone. Brian is quick to longed period of transition iar with the bureaucratic com- speak to the fine qualities of Professor Corman identifies his plexities of the SGS might call the team he will soon be join- role at SGS as twofold: He will these Herculean tasks. Brian’s ing. He looks forward to support the expansion of response to that notion is to working with extremely ca- graduate programs at the Uni- smile. Broadly. pable and future-minded col- versity of Toronto as per the leagues in the Provost’s office recommendations of the 2030 Professor Corman readily of- whose collective labours will Task Force on Enrolment of fers that while the projects he contribute to the creation of Brian Corman attending what he hopes will become a the Alexander Lectures more streamlined, and effec- tive administrative body. His well-deserved opportunity for ambitions are collective ones rest, for a sabbatical or even for predicated on making the retirement, but for Brian Cor- most of every available means man his appointment as Dean of in order to enhance student SGS is just another opportunity opportunities for growth and to achieve excellence. learning while boosting the overall health of the univer- P. Coles sity administration.

For any other with such a formidable record of service at this juncture in his life, this year could have spoken to a The Brian Corman Library

Eleanor Cook’s preferred form of learning: publications

Eleanor Cook’s, A Reader’s ite books of 2007 by a re- insights into a poetry that we Guide to Wallace Stevens viewer from www.projo.com: thought we had gotten over.” (Princeton UP, 2007) was just “In addition to superb com- On the other end of the scale, published in paperback. mentary, there’s an Appendix Eleanor wrote a note, “No The book was voted a Book of — 27 golden pages — on how Pink Elephants: On Reading the Week by to read poetry. And the guide to Children” in Literary Matters www.readysteadybook.com to Steven’s poems is full of (fall 2008). and was also one of five favour- shrewd, humane, often witty

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English Faculty Members Cozy up to Science

By Pamela Coles against the tremendous poten- increasingly globalizing aca- Interdisciplinarity, once con- tial of interdisciplinary work demic environment recognise sidered the territory of dilet- to alienate readers in ‘home’ the merits of dialogue between tante comparativists and the disciplines by demanding that disciplines. The English De- academically promiscuous, they instantaneously acquire a partment at the University of has definitively achieved a certain proficiency in and a Toronto boasts a number of reputable status in its engage- passion for the complimentary intrepid interdisciplinary ment by academics in the subject at hand. Not everyone types; among them, Dana Seit- Department of English who loves 19th Century Brit- ler, Ian Lancashire, Cannon ish novels will love, in equal Schmitt, and Chair, Alan The challenges of interdisci- measure, evolutionary theory. Bewell. plinary work are not few nor Not all aficionados of H.G. are they easily overcome. Wells, for example, wish to Like most interdisciplinary Anatomical Studies, M. Perry Despite the recent establish- take on the complexities and works, Cannon Schmitt’s re- ment of cross-disciplinary corollaries of genetic engi- cent publication, Darwin and programs at a number of Ca- neering or astrophysics. Then the Memory of the Human takes nadian post-secondary institu- there are the charges of aca- full advantage of two seem- tions, those who take it on do demic promiscuity and dilet- ingly contradictory attributes so knowing that they are still tantism which the interdisci- that the academic hybrid relies working against the academic plinary often suffer in aca- upon most; a ferocious atten- current rather than with it. demic environments wherever tion to detail and a broad- Some of the particular chal- an institutional castle-keep spectrum academic lens. There lenges to cross-current pro- mentality persists. And fi- is a beautiful synchronicity to jects include trying to find nally, while no one can be the Schmitt’s work that is not acci- peer reviewers who are con- master of all universes, the dental. Nor is it forced. In fact, versant enough in the meth- multi-disciplined writer must its multi-layering of science, odological frameworks or convince specialists in compli- literature and cultural com- ‘languages’ of additional dis- mentary fields that their mentary is the rather organic ciplines to evaluate interdisci- outcome of a pre-existing "In the struggle for homework in those subjects plinary work with comfort or has been properly done. predilection for Victorian lit- survival, the fittest win confidence. Many academic erature and narrative theory out at the expense of their peers simply refuse to vet But, despite these and other and an enduring curiosity rivals because they succeed chapters or to write journal challenges, interdisciplinary about the natural world, in- in adapting themselves reviews because they are un- work can also be extremely spired by a favourite scientist- best to their environment." willing—and understandably rewarding. Reaching out and aunt. In his work, Schmitt re- so-- to sponsor projects they into other fields of study is an veals how temporality and the —Charles Darwin do not fully comprehend and enriching exercise, particu- divisibility of human nature therefore cannot critique larly for the intellectually cu- come under the scrutiny of the rious and daring who, in an justly. There is also the battle continued on page 5

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English Faculty Members Cozy up to Science continued from page 4 Victorian naturalists, Charles tionary theory and litera- ity and degeneration shape Darwin, Charles Kingsley, ture—Gillian Beer arrived emergent representations of W.H. Hudson, and Alfred more than two decades be- the bodies of ‘degenerate’ Russel Wallace; men of let- fore him with Darwin’s Plots: individuals. Highly scruti- ters and ‘science’ who, Evolutionary Narrative in Dar- nized in this interdisciplinary through their influential en- win, George Elliot and Nine- work that presses heavily into Opposable thumb , M. Perry counters with various teenth-Century Fiction (1983) both the biological and the ‘savage’ populations in South —Schmitt has, nonetheless sociological is the cultural America, are compelled to written a formidable next logic of scientific discourse of redefine both. At the same generation analysis of the atavism as it informs feminist time as Schmitt demonstrates impact of evolutionary the- and popular narratives in the inevitability with which ory on contemporary cul- which the influence of the Darwinian evolutionary the- ture. concept became prevalent. ory became implicated in The most innovative gesture many mechanisms of Victo- In Atavistic Tendencies: The of Atavistic Tendencies is its rian imperialism he also re- Culture of Science in American revelation of the way in which veals the significant conten- Modernity (2008) Dana Seit- the concept of atavism upsets tions these authors offer to ler also takes on Darwinian time’s linearity by displacing imperialist notions of racial Theory’s influence but her historical markers of race, difference and superiority. focus is on its impact upon gender and class based on its Through Schmitt’s nuanced the cultural coordinates of remapping of the boundaries dialogues with their scien- early twentieth century between the animal and the tific, historical, literary and America. In particular, she human. Antique mummified head of Munduruhù tribesman, Florence Italy sociological narratives of makes evident the role of the encounter, we see the ways sociobiological concept of Taking interdisciplinarity to a in which their theorizations atavism in that culture’s re- whole new level, Professor of separateness, popularly considering of notions of self Ian Lancashire has something “Ignorance more frequently begets -determination and degener- few English faculty members characterized as being ex- confidence than does knowledge: it is plicit and unyielding, were acy in both the individual and can boast of: a scholar’s also shot through by incerti- collective sense. In her en- equivalent to a “Bat cave.” His those who know little, not those who tude that arose through these quiry into late nineteenth- TaPor (Text Analysis Portal author’s explorations of and early twentieth-century for Research) Lexical Analysis know much, who so positively assert themselves and the “other” science, fiction, and photog- lab is where he and colleague under what were often ad- raphy, Seitler exposes the Graeme Hirst investigate the that this or that problem will never be verse and alienating condi- dehumanizing effects of Dar- linguistic patterns of older solved by science.” tions. win’s theory on certain seg- authors in order to demon- ments of the American popu- strate a correlation between A self-confessed late-comer lation and describes the way —Charles Darwin to the interfacing of evolu- in which concepts of animal- continued on page 6

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English Faculty Members Cozy up to Science continued from page 5 dementia and recognizable sceptics concerned about just currently engaged in an in- patterns of vocabulary de- how the humanities might tellectually cross-pollinating cline in their texts. After hold its own in the scientific project that will reveal the analyzing vocabulary and community it conveys the impact of colonization on the phrase repetition in 16 of aplomb with which Lanca- global mobilization of nature Agatha Christie’s novels, the shire moves about in the from 1492 to the 18th Cen- pair argued that they were language and methodology of tury. Natures in Translation is able to perceive the presence science. For those in need of the working title for the of Alzheimer’s disease in the additional proof of the lab’s book that he hopes to publish great detective writer’s later claims to its cross- in the coming year and which work. Having noted a 30 disciplinary prowess, their promises to supplant our percent discrepancy between study confirms neurologist belief in the botanical stabil- the relative simplicity of the Peter Garrard’s analogous ity of the British landscape as vocabulary of her penulti- examination, in 2005, of it was represented by British mate novel, Elephants Can writer-philosopher Iris Mur- authors across centuries. In Remember, a book Christie doch’s texts. Based on his it, he will suggest that the wrote at 81, and the com- linguistic analysis of three of British Romantics are patent plexity of her writing at 63, her novels representative of in their expression of the Lancashire was able to isolate the beginning, the middle, instability of nature in the the type of cognitive decline and end of her career, face of contemporary world- associated with long-term Garrard concluded that Alz- wide commodities flow and memory loss and Alz- heimer’s was widely detect- the exploration and expan- heimer’s to answer for the able in Murdoch’s last work, sion of “new” European ter- disorienting digressions of Jackson’s Dilemma, a novel ritories. Wordsworth’s po- her later plots. Lancashire’s which was panned by critics etry, in particular, he will CFI, SHRRC, NSERC and in 1995. argue, affords us tremendous CRSNG funded work was insight into the way in which presented recently at the Uncertain as to whether or the familiar fauna of Europe 19th Annual Rotman Re- not textual analysis will ever was being made to vanish by "I have called this principle, by search Institute Conference become a diagnostic tool for the permeation of “modern” on “Cognitive Aging: Re- Alzheimer’s disease, Lanca- fauna brought from abroad which each slight variation, if search and Practice” 8-10 shire is resolute, however, to its fields, forests, gardens, useful, is preserved, by the term March, 2009. The title of the that his work proves that the and marketplaces. Bewell paper, “Vocabulary Changes linguistic analysis of literary posits that British Romantic Natural Selection." in Agatha Christie’s Myster- texts offers a great deal of poetry gestures ultimately to ies as an Indication of De- insight into an author’s mind the disquiet and nostalgia —Charles Darwin mentia: A Case Study” at work. that such environmental speaks plainly to the hybrid Finally, Chair of the English nature of the project and for Department, Alan Bewell is continued on page 7

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English Faculty Members Cozy up to Science I love fools' experiments. continued from page 6 transplantation ultimately ciplinary research currently ease with leaving the con- provoked and asks that more being done by members of fines of their own disciplines I am always making attention be paid to what was the faculty of the English to engage with others in a truly happening on the Department at the Univer- bid to bring a broader con- them. ground level of these texts. sity of Toronto. They speak text to the interpretation of strongly to the forward English literature in general. Collectively, these projects reaching ambitions of their — Charles Darwin attest to the eclectic and authors who are clearly at Pamela Coles innovative nature of interdis-

New Faculty

At. St. George: Christian Queen’s University, an MA in Criminality and Psychopa- terests include Canadian lit- Campbell, a specialist in Car- English Literature from the thology; Literature and Medi- erature, especially of the Prai- ibbean Literature, completed University of Toronto, and cine; Canadian/American Rela- ries; Environmental literature, his PhD in 2007 at Duke Uni- received his PhD in English tions; the Pastoral Tradition; criticism, and theory, Border versity. His dissertation was Literature from the University Samuel Beckett. Prof. Hamil- Studies, and Geography and entitled "Romancing 'the Folk': of Toronto. His dissertation ton has published essays on Literature. Some recent publi- Rereading the Nation in Carib- was entitled “Prophets of Dis- Norman Mailer, Don DeLillo, cations include: bean Politics." affect: Antisocial Individualism Robert Stone, Samuel Beckett, “Monocultures, Monopolies, in the Contemporary Ameri- Robert D. Hare, and James and Militarism: The Environ- He was Visiting Assistant Pro- can Novel.” This examined the Frey. He has also written, pub- mental Legacy of “Greater fessor of English at Franklin and antisocial or psychopathic type lished, and edited many articles Production” in Robert Stead’s Marshall College in Lancaster, and its relationship to the leg- and essays for collections, refe- Grain.” Canadian Literature Pennsylvania in 2007-8. He acy of frontier mythology in reed journals and other schol- 198 (Autumn 2008): 58-73; took up his position at the Uni- exemplary American novels by arly publications. Currently he “Displacing the ‘Home Place’: versity of Toronto in 2008, and Norman is researching hyper-autonomy Madeline Coopsammy’s “Post- has been teaching courses on Mailer, Vladi- in the contemporary American Prairie” Poetry.” West of Derek Walcott: "Race" and mir Nabokov, imagination. Eden: Essays "Nation" and on contemporary Don DeLillo, on Canadian poetry of the African diaspora. Cormac At. St. George: Jenny Ker- Prairie Litera- Professor Campbell has poems, McCarthy, and ber has a BA in English from ture. Ed. S. books and articles forthcoming James Ellroy. the University of Saskatche- Sorensen. with, among other presses, wan, a MA English from the Winnipeg: Peepal Tree Press and His areas of teaching and re- University of Victoria, and her CMU Press, 2008. 75-91. Routledge. search include Contemporary PhD in Environmental Studies, American, British and Cana- York University. Professor Kerber is currently At UTM: Geoff Hamilton dian Novel; Constructions of has a BA with Honours from Her teaching and Research In- continued on page 8

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New Faculty continued from page 7 working on two main pro- ada 33.3 (2007): 67-88. University of Michigan in 2007. Award for Best Book of Poetry, jects: the first is a book-length She teaches and researches in 2006). A finalist in CBC’s 2005 study that examines 20th and He is currently working on a the areas of early modern litera- National Poetry Face-Off, his 21st century Prairie Canadian book project that investigates ture and culture. Her areas of poetry has also been published in literature from an environ- the effects of the Vietnam War research include Anglo-Dutch literary journals (including New mental perspective, while the on Canadian literature, Cana- relations in the sixteenth and Quarterly, Prism, and Grain), po- second considers the relation- dian-US relations, and Cana- seventeenth centuries, cultural etry anthologies (Boredom Fight- ship of storytelling to chang- dian identity. performance (city comedy, ers! (2008), Fast Forward: New ing constructions of national/ St. George: Cheryl Suzack royal and civic pageantry, resto- Saskatchewan Poets (2007)), and regional identity and environ- completed her PhD in 2003 at ration drama, and ceremonies received Honourable Mention at mental issues in the border- the University of Alberta, and of distinction in East Indies), the National Magazine Awards lands of the Canadian Prairies her dissertation was entitled epistemologies of ethnicity and (2003). Born and raised on a -US Great Plains. Law, Literature, Location: Con- race in early modern England, farm in Moose Jaw, Saskatche- temporary Aboriginal/Indigenous print history, and early modern wan, Daniel recently received an St. George: Robert McGill emigration/immigration in the MA in Creative Writing from returns to us from Harvard Women’s Writing and the Politics of Identity. She taught at the European north. She was a con- the University of Toronto. University. tributor to "Reading Early He holds a university in Edmonton before UTSc: Karina Vernon (Ph.D. moving to the Modern Women: An Anthology B.A. of Texts in Manuscript and Victoria) is a Postdoctoral Fel- (Queen’s), University of low from the Department of Victoria in Print, 1550-1700," has pub- M.Phil. lished on city comedy, and is English and Film Studies, and (Oxford), 2005, where the Canadian Literature Centre she was Assis- currently completing a book M.A. (East manuscript that explores cul- at the University of Alberta, Anglia), Ph.D. (Toronto). tant Professor specializing in black Canadian in the Department of English. tural ideas of proximity, resem- His teaching and research blance, and approximation cultural studies, Canadian Lit- interests include Contempo- Prof. Suzack has published one through a study of early modern erature, and diaspora theory. rary Canadian fiction, life book edition In Search of April Anglo-Dutch relations. Her current project focuses on writing, literary ethics, and Raintree, 1999, and several the archival writing of nine- creative writing. Selected articles and book chapters. UTSc: Daniel Scott Tysdal teenth and early twentieth cen- publications include: “No The journals include ARIEL, (MA, Toronto, 2008). Daniel’s tury black pioneers in Alberta. Nation but Adaptation: ‘The Topia, and English Studies in first collection of poetry, Pre- In particular, it examines the Bear Came Over the Moun- Canada. Her book chapters dicting the Next Big Advertising historical relationship between tain,’ Away from Her, and have appeared in volumes pub- Breakthrough Using a Potentially territorialized black settlers, What It Means to Be Faith- lished by Broadview, Univer- Dangerous Method (2006), is the First Nations, and the land, and ful.” Canadian Literature 197 sity of Oklahoma Press, U of winner of the ReLit Award for aims to bring black studies into (2008): 98-111; “‘A Neces- T Press, WLU Press. Poetry (2007), the John V. activist interdisciplinariy with sary Collaboration’: Bio- Hicks Manuscript Award Indigenous political movements graphical Desire and Elizabeth UTSc: Marjorie Rubright (2004), and the Anne Szumigal- Smart.” English Studies in Can- received her Ph.D. from the ski Award (Saskatchewan Book continued on page 9

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Awards and Accolades

Each year, members of our Paul Stevens's pedagogical tal- Society of Canada! This is faculty and staff are recog- ent was also recently recog- terrific news and an impor- nised for their excellence in nised when he was voted in the tant recognition of the influ- research, service and/or Top Ten of TVO's best lectur- ential role that she has played teaching. This year we would ers at a Canadian University. in Canadian studies. Also, like to celebrate the achieve- With winning colleagues like finally, thank you to the ments of Michael Cobb, who these, we can certainly lay Awards Committee for their won the FAS Outstanding claim to being one of the lead- role in forwarding such suc-

Dean Meric Gertler, Michael Cobb Teaching Award, and Nick ing teaching departments at the cessful nominations. Mount, who was this year's university. recipient of the President's Germaine Warkentin has been teaching Award. made a Fellow of the Royal

The Annual Arts Science Outstanding Achievement Awards

were handed out recently at Teaching Award and the Ad- plify the high quality of teach- Hart House. The evening was ministrative Service Award ing and service we strive for a enjoyable affair which in- went to Cristina Henrique, in our department. We con- cluded the awards ceremony the Department’s Financial gratulate both on their well followed by a wine and cheese Assistant at St. George Cam- earned awards and accolades. reception. Faculty, students pus. These recipients exem- and staff from Arts & Science faculty, along with their fami- Alan Bewell, Cristina Henrique, lies were treated to many hu- Donna Sabo morous and moving speeches by The Faculty of Arts & Science both staff and faculty. meets each year to recognize and This year’s recipients included acknowledge the achievement of two very deserving members of its staff and faculty. The annual the English Department. Pro- Faculty of Arts & Science Out- fessor Michael Cobb was pre- English Department staff: Sangeeta Panjwani, Cecilia Martino, Cristina standing Achievement Awards sented with the Outstanding Henrique, Clare Orchard, Donna Sabo New Faculty continued from page 8 and cultural struggles. She is a Alley Memorial Project, a grass- At this time, we would like to publisher and cofounder of Com- roots cultural organization en- extend a belated but warm modore Books, the first black gaged in local archival work to- welcome to Alexandra literary press in Western Canada, ward the publication of an oral Peat, who also joined the and is active with the Hogan’s history of black Vancouver. faculty at UTSc last year.

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Thank you, Ted Chamberlin

English is not the only unit at make in the field of pure larly juxtaposes work on the the University of Toronto to math.) Ted has in fact re- poetry of such writers as Mi- be loosening its hold on Ed- turned to math in his work chael Ondaatje with re- ward Chamberlin. This year on human storytelling in arts ports on native land claims Ted is retiring not only from and science; and the Gerstein and northern hydrocarbon the Department of English, Science library is the home development. More recently where he was appointed in of his most recent book on Ted has published on Poetry 1970, but also from Com- How the Horse has Shaped Civi- and the West Indies - Come Back parative Literature and from lizations. In his numerous to me my Language in 1993, New College, where he publications, limits (and and in 2003 a work on abo- served as Principal for a term their transcendence) have riginal, diasporic, and human in the 1980s. Ted's status as been a theme rather than an storytelling, If This is your University Professor ac- impediment. land, where are your stories?, knowledges publications and which (like his earlier work) related public honours that I Ted's many honours include takes treaties as well as tales cannot attempt to enumerate Fellowship in the Royal Soci- as its subjects. In summary, ety of Canada, an honorary Ted Chamberlin today. The breadth of his the title of Ted's very first interests and of his intellect doctorate from the Univer- publication, an essay for the is epitomized by the subject sity of the West Indies, and Hudson Review on "Oscar of his first degree at the Uni- U of T's Jus Memorial Hu- Wilde and the Importance of versity of British Columbia - man Rights prize, which he Doing Nothing" does not at a BA in pure maths. Ted's received in 2006. The Jus first seem to be an accurate mathematical talents can be prize acknowledged not only predictor of his interests or of inferred from his subsequent Ted's intellectual explora- his future productivity. But Rhodes Scholarship. How- tions of aboriginal and Carib- the title of this first essay - ever, it was English he stud- bean cultures, but also his along with the subject of his ied at Oxford, and subse- longstanding advocacy of second book, on The Age of quently poetry, for his U of them at personal and institu- Oscar Wilde - in fact antici- T PhD with Northrop Frye, tional levels. On leave from pated a lifetime's considera- on Wallace Stevens and the U of T for a year in 1972, tion of the relationship be- Aesthetics of Modem Art. In Ted then and subsequently tween the ethical and aes- one story Ted has published worked in various capacities thetic properties of art and about himself, he claims to on native land claims: his the relationship of art and life. have abandoned math be- monograph on White Attitudes And its publication in the cause he was dissatisfied with towards Native Americans Hudson Review anticipated the limits in calculus. (In (1975) appeared a few years Ted's lifelong commitment to another story, he claims it before The Report of the writing, reviewing and edit- was because he feared limits Mackenzie Valley Pipeline In- quiry (1977); his CV simi- to the contribution he could continued on page 11

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Thank you, Ted Chamberlin continued from page 10 ing for a broad audience - re- sented for examination in a chap- sions. It is difficult to fix the Art should never viewing poetry for the Hudson ter of this most recent book - limits of his service, but I Review and editing it for Satur- "Service is perfect free- would like to thank Univer- try to be popular. day Night, for instance. Ted's dom." (The other two: "Life sity Professor Ted Chamber- work on humans, storytelling, imitates art" and "Life is short, lin of the Department of The public should and land has reached outside art is long.") Widely travelled English for his contributions our discipline to its subjects: If for his work and often appearing to literature and culture, and try to make itself this is your Land has not only to be in his native province of BC their scholarly study. been nominated for two prizes and Toronto simultaneously, artistic. in non-fiction, but has been Ted seems to have retained a Carol Percy stolen from the Robarts Li- degree of freedom from institu- brary. tions while serving and leading in —Oscar Wilde an extraordinary range of capaci- As we mark Ted's retirement, ties within and outside U of T - I it is tempting to make a little have not even mentioned his too much of one of the three thirty-four primary PhD supervi- enigmatic epigrams he pre-

Placements

Academic Positions: • Bill Friesen (Medieval, New CLTAs Non-Academic Permanent 08, Orchard), Tyndale • Alex Peat (Modernism, 06, • Romi Mikilinsky • Andrea Stone (African-Am, University College, To- Cuddy-Keane) – UTSC —3 (Contemporary, 08, 08, Clarke), Smith College, ronto —tenure-track -year CLTA Hutcheon) —Marketing Mass. —tenure track Manager, Aniboom • Kirsty Campbell (CMS / • Stephen Yeager (Medieval, Animation Studio, Tel Aviv • Lindy Ledohowski (Can, Medieval, 07, Akbari), ABD, Orchard) – Concordia 08, Brown), St. Jerome’s —3-year CLTA Yeshiva U, New York — College, University of Wa- tenure-track We would like to congratu- terloo —tenure-track New Post-Doctoral late everyone, and express • Keavy Martin (Comp Fellowships our best wishes for contin- • Sarah Brouillette (PoCo, Lit / Aboriginal, ABD, • Piers Brown (Early Mod, ued success in all of their 06, Kanaganayakam), Chamberlin), U of Al- ABD, Harvey) —SSHRC future endeavours. Carleton U —tenure-track berta —tenure-track pdf (York, UK) Thank you to Paul Stevens, • Kit Dobson (Can, 06, • Hutcheon), Mount Royal Sarah Copland (Modernism, Professor and Canada Research College, Calgary —tenure- ABD, Cuddy-Keane) — Chair, Department of English, track SSHRC pdf (Ohio State) University of Toronto

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Donna Bennett: In recognition

by Neil ten Kortenaar (presented Literature, Robert Lecker's Donna was a successful and at the A.G.M. 19 April 2008) The Canadian Canon, and respected scholar, but she Shirley Neuman and Smaro had accomplished all this There may be many, like Kamboureli's A Mazing Space: without a regular university myself, who first encoun- Writing Canadian Women's appointment. She was too tered Donna as the author of Writing. Of her article in the busy editing, writing, and "English Canada's Postcolo- Oxford Companion, Clara researching, as well as teach- nial Complexities," a 1994 Thomas wrote, "I can imag- ing, to finish the PhD that article that rendered com- ine no better or more bal- she had started at the Uni- Donna Bennett prehensible the debates sur- anced introduction to the versity of Connecticut and rounding the category of the progress of English-Canadian was not eligible for most jobs postcolonial and elucidated literary criticism than Donna advertised at universities. just what was rhetorical and Bennett's comprehensive She taught stipend courses at what served analysis, where sixteen-page article." And, Scarborough and in the Ca- the problems were, and what of course, Canadianists were nadian Studies program at was at stake. The breadth of certain to know her as co- Woodsworth College. She vision and the balance of editor of Anthology of Cana- even acted as Supervisor of judgement manifest there dian Literature in English, pub- Studies for the English pro- might have led readers to lished by Oxford in 1982-3 gram at UTSC and coordi- imagine the author was a in two volumes and then in a nated the writing courses. senior scholar. They would revised single-volume edi- have been half right. Donna tion in 1990. Robert Weaver The university does not hire had been teaching courses at had previously edited an scholars in recognition of the University of Toronto's anthology of Canadian litera- their merit nor as a reward Scarborough College since ture, but the collection that for hard work. If that were 1985; she had been co-editor Donna edited with Russell the case, Donna would have of the literary magazine Des- Brown and Nathalie Cooke been hired years before. In cant since 1979; and she had was the first annotated an- 2001, when the university edited the work of such thology and remains the only understood that her presence “Anyone who tries to make a prominent Canadian poets as one. It is no exaggeration to as teacher and researcher distinction between Lorna Crozier, Bronwen say that two generations of increased its reputation, it education and entertainment Wallace, Don Coles, and Joe university students across appointed Donna associate doesn't know the first thing Rosenblatt. Canadian litera- Canada came to the national professor of English at the about either.” ture specialists no doubt literature through that an- University of Toronto at already knew her as the au- thology. It has had enormous Scarborough and a full mem- —Marshall McLuhan thor of a dozen scholarly impact on shaping the canon ber of the graduate depart- articles and book chapters in and the literary history of ment. Donna has always be- such prominent venues as the Canada. Oxford Companion to Canadian continued on page 13

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Donna Bennett: In recognition Story continued from page 12 Rosemary Sullivan: Villa Air-Bel haved as a full member of Scar- original anthology has done so dian Literature and Culture borough English: not just pull- much to define it. An anthol- by the Royal Society of Can- ing her weight in terms of ad- ogy of Canadian short stories ada. Her latest book, Villa Air- ministrative duties, but taking came out in 2005. Donna has Bel: World War II, Escape and a leadership roles, initiating im- published extensively on the House in Marseille came out portant curriculum reforms, forces that have shaped Cana- with Mladá fronta, the Czech and introducing innovative dian literature, such as the Republic, translator Katerina courses in new media that canon, multiculturalism, Ca- Hilská and with Rocco Pub- stretched the traditional defini- nadian-American relations, lishers Brazil, translator Ana tion of English. In the larger postcolonialism, nationalism, Derio. English department she has and thematic criticism. served as co-editor of UTQ. Prominent among the forces Donna has been invited to give shaping Canadian literature, lectures on Canadian literature however, we should include Rosemary Sullivan was around the world and to exam- Donna herself. nominated for a Trudeau Sen- ine theses at other universities. ior Fellow for 2008-2011. She Neil ten Kortenaar 2002 saw the publication of the was awarded the Lorne Pierce New Anthology of Canadian Litera- Medal in 2008 for distin- ture in English, redefining the guished contributions to Cana- canon twenty years after the

St. George Undergraduate News

On June 30, 2009, after a demands and frustrations of reasonably take over from Julia. we can look forward to Nick superb five-year term as Asso- the undergraduate office with We are delighted that Nick assisting in that goal. ciate Chair, Julia Reibetanz unflagging energy. She has Mount has agreed to a three- stepped down. She has been worked hard for us all, and we year term. We all know his Alan Bewell an extraordinary administra- are all indebted to her for the achievements as a teacher and tor in very challenging times. manner in which she has met his devotion to undergraduate Her commitments to under- very difficulty budgetary and education, and can now look graduate education and to staffing challenges. We are forward to Nick playing a very achieving transparency and grateful to her for all that she important leadership role in fairness in how teaching is has done in the Department. moving us forward in these dif- assigned are outstanding. Her service to us has been ficult economic times. Despite Julia has been absolutely in- exemplary. the budgetary constraint, we Nick Mount, New Associate Chair dispensible in providing wise still need to work towards Undergraduate Studies Obviously, it was a challenge and practical advice to two strengthening the undergraduate to find someone who might Chairs, and she has met the program, and are confident that

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Russell Brown: 32 years of teaching English at UTSC

In an entirely different life, vies, Northrop Frye, and oversaw the publication of Russell was a Texan who did Marshall McLuhan. such prominent names as his MA and PhD on Renais- Jiles, Cohen, Borson, Russell Brown sance poetry at SUNY Bing- It no doubt says something McFadden, Lee, Steffler, and hamton. There, however, about the state of Canadian Crozier. Russell worked as Russell made the acquaint- literature at the time-but creative editor with a verita- ance of Robert Kroetsch, the what?-that the foremost Ca- ble who's who of Canadian novelist, who first made him nadian university hired a poetry: Gustafsen, Mus- conscious of Canada and former Texan and new citi- grave, di Michele, Di Cicco, Canadian literature. As a zen to teach Canadian litera- Bringhurst, McKay, MacE- result, Russell accepted a job ture. The wisdom of that wen, Dewdney, Lee, and “The most at the University of Lakehead hire made Scarborough Col- Helm. He edited collections in the town of Port Arthur lege and helped make the by Irving Layton, Joe Rosen- technologically Ontario. The year after Rus- University of Toronto cen- blatt, and Douglas LePan. tres for the study of the na- efficient machine that sell got there the town His edition of the Collected changed its name to Thunder tional literature. Within four Poems of AI Purdy won the year of coming to Scarbor- man has ever invented Bay (but I cannot confirm Governor-General's Prize in the rumour that the new ough, Russell was teaching in 1986. In other words, when the graduate program. is the book.” name had something to do Russell and Donna Bennett with the sound of Russell's With Donna Bennett and published their anthology, laugh.) Russell finished writ- Nathalie Cooke (whose PhD they were publishing people —Northrop Frye ing his thesis on Sidney's he had supervised), Russell whose work they themselves "Astrophil and Stella," on published An Anthology of had fostered. Moreover, as the shores of the Kaminis- Canadian Literature in English critics, Russell and Donna tiquia River. By that time, with Oxford University have also shaped the recep- however, something of the Press, the first and still the tion and understanding of garrison mentality seems to only annotated anthology of Canadian literature. There have infected him, and he Canadian literature. Even can be few people as in- became a student of the lit- before he and Donna gave a volved at every step of the The printing press was erature of his adopted coun- shape to the canon of Cana- growth and development of at first mistaken for an try. After eight years in dian literature, they had the national literature, acting Thunder Bay, Russell for- as midwives, godparents, engine of immortality been deeply involved in sook his tenure-track job and shaping the literature itself. mentors, champions, and by everybody except came to Scarborough Col- They co-edited Descant, the judges. An important stamp Shakespeare. lege, University of Toronto, literary magazine where Russell put on the literature as a CL T A in order to be many new writers got their was the strong spirit of col- —Marshall McLuhan closer to the people he start. As poetry director at laboration that began at wrote about: Robertson Da- McClelland and Stewart, he continued on page 15

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Russell Brown: 32 years of teaching English at UTSC Story continued from page 14 home but extended to his role in the English group at strong department that he entire scholarly career. Scarborough as he has in Cana- helped build, but with his dian literature more generally, departure, the cavernous “The great book for you is Russell has written more than opening the doors of his home corridors of the Humanities the book that has the forty articles or chapters in to colleagues as he has to poets Wing at Scarborough will most to say to you at the books on Canadian literature, and novelists, providing guid- seem a little more silent. especially on Kroetsch, moment when you are ance, putting his mark on the Something will be missing. Rooke, Purdy, Munro, and reading. I do not mean curriculum and pedagogy, and Bowering, as well as thematic Neil ten Kortenaar the book that is most just as important and charac- criticism on the trickster, the instructive, but the book teristic of the man, teaching us open road, the Northrop Frye that feeds your spirit. all to laugh at the foibles of the effect, Telemachus and Oedi- institution, deflating preten- And that depends on pus as images of tradition and your age, your sion, and fostering camarade- authority in Canadian and rie. Russell did not just shape experience, your American literature, rainmak- how Canadian literature is psychological and ers, borderlines, crow and taught across the nation; his spiritual need. “ raven, as well as articles on own teaching was fittingly hon- thematic criticism itself. —Robertson Davies oured with a teaching award in Russell has played a similar 2004. He leaves behind a

Graduate News

Will Robins was appointed to the University of Toronto, in September 2009. This is son, who graciously agreed to serve as the acting Principal of and working together in mat- wonderful news for the Eng- serve as the Interim Director Victoria College from January 1 ters of mutual interest. We lish Department, as she will of Graduate Studies from of this year until June 30, 2009. would like to thank Will for bring energy, wisdom, crea- January 1st, 2009, to August Unfortunately this appointment his commitment to our tivity, and a deep commit- 31, 2009. We recognise his left the English Department graduate students and to the ment to graduate education to generosity in taking on this without a Director of Graduate program, and wished him the the job. We are looking for- interim position, and appreci- Studies. Will had been an ex- very best success in his role ward to working with her at a ate his hard work for our stu- traordinary director of the pro- at Victoria College, and in all time when graduate education dents. gram, so his loss was greatly his future endeavours. will play and increasingly im- felt. The Department of English portant role at the university Alan Bewell has a long history of working We were delighted that of Toronto. with Victoria College , further- Deidre Lynch agreed to serve ing the role of the humanities at as the new Director of Additional thanks needs to be Graduate Studies, beginning extended to Greig Hender-

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Ruth Harvey: Retirement Congratulations

by Suzanne Akbari (presented at The Inward Wits, is a study of edition, “The Image of Love” the A.G.M. 14 April 2009) faculty psychology – that is, is the best piece of writing Ruth Harvey has been a pro- the ways in which medieval that I know of on the compli- fessor in the Department of people thought that the mind cated relationship between English since 1970, when she worked. When I arrived at image and viewer, and on arrived in Toronto as a Toronto for a job interview the fine line that separates rather shy twenty-six-year- in 1995, I was thrilled to image-worship from idola- old who had just completed realize that I would finally try. Over the last decade or her Ph.D. in the austere li- meet the “E. Ruth Harvey,” so, Ruth’s research has cen- braries of the Warburg Insti- author of The Inward Wits, a tered on an area which, at tute. Toronto was a very book I had virtually memo- first glance, looks a little different world, but it imme- rized while in graduate peculiar: she has studied me- diately became Ruth’s new school. I imagined that this dieval texts on uroscopy, home, where she raised a “E. Ruth Harvey” must be a that is, the practice of diag- “Polydactyl, without most of his family (as well as several rather formidable person, nosing illness through exami- fur, but displaying his signature but instead found her utterly nation of urine. This work thumbs.” generations of cats) and es- tablished herself as an impor- approachable and warm, and isn’t just valuable in terms of fascinating to talk to; reconstructing medieval Ruth Harvey tant member of Toronto’s continued on page 12 medieval community, both Roberta Frank literally had medical practices: on the within the Department itself to pull me away for my next contrary, through their ex- and within the then-recently appointment. amination of the “little world” of the human body, founded Centre for Medieval Ruth’s first book was fol- Studies. medieval people believed lowed in 1984 by The Court of that they could understand Ruth was educated at the Sapience, an edition of a fif- the “great world” around University of London and teenth-century English alle- them. The rivers of blood completed her Ph.D. at the gorical text, along with a and vital humors coursing Warburg Institute, a place series of articles on a wide through the flesh corre- known for its role as the range of topics. In my opin- sponded to the rivers and Nowher so bisy a man as wellspring of a certain kind ion, perhaps most impressive streams of the geographical of intellectual history that among her publications of landscape, and the physio- he ther nas, combines literature, science, this period is what decep- logical changes of maturity philosophy, and iconogra- tively looks like a minor and age were also tracked in And yet he semed bisier phy. Ruth’s work exempli- piece of work, an Appendix the stars. This research pro- fies this extraordinary disci- called “The Image of Love” ject has resulted in a major than he was. plinary range, combined appearing in the Yale Edition monograph now in press, with a thorough knowledge of the Complete Works of Tho- called The Faithful Messenger: —Geoffrey Chaucer of manuscript culture that is mas More: tucked away in the Urine and Uroscopy in the Mid- supplementary matter of this all Toronto. Her first book, continued on page 17

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Ruth Harvey: Retirement Congratulations continued from page 16 dle Ages. been either Graduate Coordi- garden, sometimes even when "She was so propre and sweete and nator, Ph.D. Secretary, or adversity has been close at Ruth’s contributions to the likerous, Associate Director for nine of hand. Perhaps Ruth’s most Department of English have them. striking quality is her force of I dar wel sayn, if she hadde been a mous, been, above all, in the class- will and her persistent deter- room, where she has taught Her nurturing of the commu- mination in the face of difficul- And he a cat, he wolde hire hente courses on medieval and Ren- nity around her goes beyond ties, traits which have been a anoon." aissance literature ranging from the usual environments of great inspiration to all those Chaucer to Spenser; and, at classroom and meeting room: who know her. Since her arri- —Geoffrey Chaucer Victoria College, she developed for a long time, those lucky val at the University of To- their signature course on enough to be at Medieval ronto almost forty years ago, “Renaissance Culture.” She has Studies on Friday afternoons Ruth Harvey has given gener- also given generously of her would find fresh baking in the ously to the Department of time as an administrator, acting kitchen, and one faculty English, and she retires this as M.A. Secretary in English member I spoke to reports year as a Full Professor. For all and Secretary of the Victoria that someone who shall re- these many accomplishments, College Council, and taking on main nameless comes quietly the Department of English a host of committee assign- in the mornings to plant flow- expresses its gratitude to Pro- ments. Her administrative gen- ering bulbs in her garden. fessor Harvey for her contribu- erosity has been greatest to the Ruth Harvey has cultivated tions to the teaching of English Centre of Medieval Studies, the community around her as literature and medieval studies where I have calculated that, of carefully and generously as at the University of Toronto. the last twenty years, Ruth has she has cultivated her own Suzanne Akbari

The world’s a stage for Jeremy Lopez

Directed by Jeremy Lopez, Gill Theatre from March 5 to 8, is set in the Ram Alley, or Merry- 2009. Whitefriars Trickes, was performed at the The only surviving work of area of west Koffler Student Centre, Robert Lording Barry, Ram Alley was London written around 1608. infamous Photos of Professor Lopez in his production of Lording Unable to make a living for its Barry's Ram Alley. Images by Kat Vitale. with a share of a boy- crime and Toronto Public Library. The acting theatre company, less than savoury characters. event was co-presented by the Barry turned to piracy, a Also, on March 30th, Profes- Toronto Reference Library and lifestyle that informed sor Lopez gave a lecture on the Stratford Shakespeare Fes- this adventurous, earthy, Ben Jonson’s tival. bawdy farce. Ram Alley “Bartholomew Fair” at the

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Hugh MacCallum, 1928-2008 In Memoriam

Hugh MacCallum, one of Can- The Mechanical Bride (1951), theme was liberty. Wood- ada’s wisest and most distin- The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), house published Puritanism and guished Miltonists, died of a and Understanding Media Liberty in 1938, Barker Milton respiratory ailment at Toronto (1964). Nowhere was this and the Puritan Dilemma in General Hospital on the 18th renaissance more apparent 1942, and Sirluck, it was July 2008. He is survived by than in Milton Studies. hoped, would complete a his wife, Barbara, and their major work on Milton and son, Sam, and his young fam- The small graduate English classical republicanism. To ily. His daughter Elizabeth faculty of which both Frye and Barker’s great annoyance, died in 1982. Hugh was To- McLuhan were members was Sirluck was beaten to the ronto born and bred. The son dominated by the formidable punch by Zera Fink, but Sir- figure of its chair, Arthur Hugh MacCallum of Reid MacCallum, Professor luck went on to incorporate of Philosophy at the University Woodhouse. It was Wood- the political implications of of Toronto, he was educated house who gave Frye his first his work on natural law into as an undergraduate at Trinity graduate course, not as one his magisterial introduction to College (1948-51) where he might expect on Blake but on the second volume of the Yale was taught by A.E. Barker, Spenser in 1943, and it was prose in 1958. Their allies in and as a doctoral candidate at under Woodhouse’s aegis that the United States were such University College (1953-59) early modern studies at To- legendary figures as Don where he was supervised by ronto took off, attracting very Wolfe at New York’s New A.S.P. Woodhouse. After a early on such brilliant students School, Merritt Hughes at short period of teaching at the as Arthur Barker and Ernest Wisconsin, and Douglas Bush University of Western Ontario Sirluck. The school of criti- (himself a Toronto graduate (1955-59), he returned to a cism inspired by Woodhouse and close friend of Wood- “Many a man lives a tenure-track position at To- was deeply historical. Focused house) at Harvard. The apo- as it was on Milton, it was burden to the Earth; but a ronto where he stayed until his theosis of this larger North retirement in 1993. determined to take both his American movement in a re- good Book is the precious religion and politics seriously. invigorated form of historical life-blood of a master From the late 1940s into the Unlike so much mainstream criticism was, of course, the spirit, embalmed and 1960s, during the period of Milton criticism, especially in eight-volume Yale prose Hugh’s education, the Univer- Britain, it was convinced that treasured up on purpose (1953-82). Frye is usually sity of Toronto experienced a the poetry could not be un- seen as standing apart from to a life beyond life.” remarkable renaissance in Eng- derstood independently of the the Woodhouse group, but its lish literary studies. It was prose nor the prose independ- influence on him, as Hugh —John Milton during this period, for in- ently of the great political frequently explained, was stance, that Northrop Frye upheaval of the English Revo- deep and abiding. It is more

published Fearful Symmetry lution. In the shadow of Fas- than evident, for instance, in (1947) and Anatomy of Criticism cism and under the threat of (1957) and Marshall McLuhan the Second World War, its continued on page 19

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“I am a part of all that I Hugh MacCallum, 1928-2008 In Memoriam have met.” continued from page 18 Frye’s dependence on Wood- minate the subtlety, original- the University of London in —Lord Alfred Tennyson house’s distinction between ity, and reasonableness of what the early 1970s, it seemed the orders of nature and grace sometimes might appear harsh like a voice from another in Frye’s monograph on Mil- or crabbed in Milton’s theol- world. Its unusual learning, ton, The Return of Eden ogy. His doctoral dissertation measured tone, and the ele- (1965). Balachandra Rajan, was on Milton and scriptural gant unfolding of its thesis who moved from India to the interpretation. The first fruits made the polemics of Eliot University of Western On- of that dissertation was a clas- and Leavis, with which we tario in 1966, had also long sic essay called “Milton and the were saturated, and even the “The superior man acquaints been involved with the Figurative Interpretation of the interventions of the much Woodhouse group, both in- Bible” published in University of admired Empson and Ricks, fluencing it and being influ- Toronto Quarterly 31 (1962). suddenly seem partisan, sub- himself with many sayings of enced by it. In one memora- The essay is an outstanding jective, and indeed amateur- ble encounter at Cambridge piece of work, demonstrating ish in their ignorance of any- antiquity and many deeds of the in the early summer of 1944, how reductive it is to separate thing to do with Milton Sirluck turned up at Trinity a poem like Paradise Lost from other than their endless scru- past, in order to strengthen his College to deliver a copy of the interpretative practices tiny of the poems. I was de- Barker’s book, unavailable to Milton developed in reading lighted years later when character thereby.” Rajan in wartime England, the Bible, especially as those Hugh agreed to supervise my while on his way to join his practices are explained in De doctoral dissertation. —John Milton regiment in Normandy. It was Doctrina Christiana. It shows clearly crucial to the redoubt- with great forensic skill how Hugh’s first book was a bril- able Sirluck to connect with Milton ultimately denied any liant edition of The Elegant E.M.W. Tillyard’s brilliant simple split between the letter and Learned Discourse of the young student before dealing and the spirit, that the Light of Nature by the Cam- with Hitler. Rajan had not “spiritual understanding of the bridge Platonist Nathanael committed himself to Milton letter requires the apprehen- Culverwel which he co- studies at this stage of his doc- sion of the letter through faith edited and published with toral work, but Sirluck’s gift and charity” rather than any R.A. Greene in 1971. The did the trick. simple rejection or gentle, painstaking but “substitution of an allegorical imaginative and intellectually Hugh was the youngest and meaning for a literal one.” In sophisticated moderation of last of the Woodhouse group insisting on the immediate Culverwel sat well with – he was drawn to it not so value of the letter, Hugh an- Hugh’s own wonderfully much by Milton’s politics as ticipated much of the later good-natured and self- by his religious thought, and distinguished work that has effacing personality. The his enduring contribution to been produced on Milton’s following year Hugh com- Hugh MacCallum Milton studies remains his monism. When I first read this pleted his obligations to extraordinary ability to illu- essay as an undergraduate at continued on page 20

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Hugh MacCallum, 1928-2008 In Memoriam continued from page 19 Woodhouse as his heir and us all, regardless of gender, pedic book, The Analogy of ‘The Every year in early May we academic son by completing equally “sons not servants.” Faerie Queene,’ Hugh intervened now hold the Canada Milton and bringing out the now and drew everyone’s attention Seminar which is meant, As he moved towards retire- deceased chief’s monograph, to a passage that he found espe- among many things, to com- ment, Hugh became increas- The Heavenly Muse: A Preface to cially admirable. In doing so, he memorate the achievements ingly interested in the Resto- Milton. In 1986 Hugh pub- completely changed the mood of Hugh and other members ration Milton; he wrote two lished his own outstanding of the defense. This was typical of the Canadian Milton tradi- fine articles on Dryden and in book, Milton and the Sons of and Hugh is remembered by a tion. It needs to be empha- 1988 the remarkable quality God: The Divine Image in Mil- generation of English graduate sized in this the 400th anni- of his work was recognized by ton’s Epic Poetry. The book, students at U of T as the Direc- versary of his birth that Mil- the Milton Society of America like his UTQ article, is a clas- tor of Graduate Studies through ton is not just another poet when he was awarded its Han- sic and it is impossible to 1970s for his sensitivity and but, for all his imperfections, ford Prize for most distin- study Milton’s religious efficiency. Patrick Cheney re- the author of the single great- guished article – “Samson Ago- thought adequately without members Hugh’s quiet encour- est poem in the English lan- nistes: The Deliverer as reference to it. With Hugh’s agement as he headed out to the guage, a political activist and a Judge,” Milton Studies 23 deeply intelligent contempla- wilds of Montana to finish his thinker of extraordinary range (1987). tion of the meaning of dissertation and many others, and complexity whose contri- “Sonship,” the Woodhouse Hugh’s influence on Milton not as resourceful as Patrick, butions to our understanding tradition, it might be argued, studies was not confined to his recall Hugh’s constant willing- of what real liberty and a arrived at its fulfillment. Not writing. Through his teaching, ness to help them through the truly civil society should be only does Hugh make clear both directly and indirectly, stress of graduate school. were profound. It is no small the profoundly democratizing he touched many students Rather like Captain Rivers in achievement to devote one’s implications of reformed who went on to produce dis- Pat Barker’s Regeneration, how- life as assiduously and as suc- Christianity, but he does so tinguished work – Anthony ever, he tended to internalize cessfully as Hugh MacCallum by focusing on Milton’s highly Raspa, Jeanne Shami, Mary their anxieties to the point did to the study of such a man original treatment of God the Nyquist, Gordon Teskey, where the job clearly began to and his works. Son. The liberty implicit in Paul Klemp, H.S. Marjara, take its toll on him. He was the Paul Stevens Protestantism is crystallized Walter Lim, and James kindest of supervisors, erudite, in Milton’s exhaustive work- Nohrnberg immediately come incisive, and quite firm when he Note: I am grateful to the follow- ing out of the significance of to mind. Nohrnberg remem- needed to be. I lived for his ing for help with Hugh’s obituary the biblical Son. In a way that bers Hugh vividly at his dis- approval and will always re- – Patrick Cheney, David anticipates and fully comple- sertation defense in 1970. member him, those long arms Galbraith, Glenn Loney, Doug ments David Norbrook’s per- When one member of his folded across his chest, rubbing MacArthur, Lynne Magnusson, ception of the “reduction” of committee was upbraiding his shoulders, and responding Nicholas von Maltzahn, Feisal the Son as image of republican Jim for his lax scholarship in to a piece of writing with his Mohamed, James Nohrnberg, enfranchisement in Writing the what was to become, more great smile and hushed words Balachandra Rajan, Ernest Sir- English Republic, Hugh shows than a little ironically, his like: “Yes, I think this is fine, luck. and Ray Waddington how the Son’s trial and me- famously learned and encyclo- just fine.” The ultimate acco- diation raises us up and makes lade.

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Annual Spring Reunion

We were extremely pleased to welcome back many faculty and alumni, who thoroughly en- joyed the talk, and later partici- pated in a short question and answer session with Professor Warkentin. This was followed by a reception that proved to be a great opportunity for everyone to reconnect and re- The Department of English’s new ties with the department We look forward to next tive relationship with our Annual Spring Reunion was held and each other. year, and what should prove English Alumni. at the Jackman Humanities Build- to be an exciting and produc- We plan to offer more of these Marguerite Perry ing on Thursday, May 28, 2009. events, specifically directed at reaching out to our English Department Alumni and to the greater University community. If you are interested in getting involved or if you would like more information about up- coming Alumni events, please contact Marguerite Perry at (416) 416-946-3026 or The evening featured a short lec- [email protected]. ture entitled “The Poet and the Special acknowledgement Writing Life,” by the eminent should be made to Clare Or- Renaissance and Canadianist chard (the Executive Assistant scholar, Professor Emeritus to the Chair of the English De- Germaine Warkentin. partment), and to Virginia Ise (Manager Alumni Relations, Faculty of Arts & Science, Ad- vancement) in appreciation for their work planning, organiz- ing, and producing this event. Without their dedication and effort this reunion would not have been such a success.

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XäxÜç zÜxtà tÇw ÉÜ|z|ÇtÄ [email protected] is still tury) and has added Samuel The RPO Advisory Board has Johnson’s “London” and the urged us to increase the num- ãÜ|àxÜ? |Ç ÑÜÉÑÉÜà|ÉÇ tá {x |á zÜxtà growing as it approaches 2012, the 100th anniversary complete “The Vanity of Hu- ber of living poets to its list. tÇw ÉÜ|z|ÇtÄ? Åâáà {|ÅáxÄy vÜxtàx of Representative Poetry, which man Wishes”, Edmund The RPO lab is Room 7061- à{x àtáàx uç ã{|v{ {x |á àÉ ux was first edited by Professors Waller’s “Upon His Majesty’s Alexander and Clawson in Repairing of Paul’s”, John Old- 62, Robarts Library, thanks to ÜxÄ|á{xwA 1912 (and published by the ham’s “A Satire, in Imitation of the wonderful support of University of Toronto Press the Third of Juvenal” and John chief librarian Carole Moore @ j|ÄÄ|tÅ jÉÜwáãÉÜà{ in its first year). Placed online Dryden’s John Dryden’s “The and IT director Peter Clinton. in late 1994 with fewer than a Third Satire of Juvenal.” I com- We welcome Ana Berdin- hundred poets, RPO now has pleted editing the 154 poems of skikh full-time this summer to 542 poets and 3,687 poems Shakespeare’s sonnet cycle the RPO lab. She is adding (237,645 lines) with 16,829 (1609) and am working on poets and poems to what we line notes and 30 commentar- annotating poems by our new believe to be the greatest an- ies. Representative Poetry cost living poets. Marc Plamondon, thology of classical English $1.00 when it came out in now teaching in the English poetry online. Ana’s going 1912; today, RPO is free. We Department at Nipissing Uni- into fourth year in the special- dedicate it to the poets who versity in North Bay, our ist English program at To- add so much to life and on founding and continuing pro- ronto. She and I work with whose works English studies grammer, has added a Shannon Robinson, our CBC- are founded. “collections” feature and has trained copyright-clearance made possible our lawful cita- officer. Shannon’s a short- Our newest poets are Marga- tion of in-copyright poetry. story writer (see her “Second ret Atwood (with her heart- Body” in the online “Whiskey rending “Flowers” and “Notes The Advisory Board for RPO is Island Magazine) and is just towards a Poem that can in its third year now. We’re entering the MFA program in never be Written”), Earle lucky to have the help of John St Louis, where she and her Birney (including his “David,” Baird, Eleanor Cook (Professor husband-poet, James Arthur, which transformed high- Emeritus), Alan Bewell (Chair, have just moved. school poetry study for so English), Sian Meikle many Canadians), our own (Toronto’s digital librarian), RPO gets email regularly from Jay Macpherson, and the ram- and two international poets poetry-lovers around the bunctious Henry John ("Play who live in Toronto, Al Moritz world and would enjoy hear- up! play up! and play the and Molly Peacock (the new ing from former Department game!") Newbolt. poem-collections of these--our of English students, especially greatest RPO fans--are, respec- if you have a suggestion or a Our editors are busy. Profes- tively, Sentinel from Anansi and personal comment. Howard sor John Baird has joined RPO The Second Blush from Leigh in Ottawa wrote re- William Wordsworth, as Associate Editor McClelland and Stewart Ltd.). by Lorenz Peter (Restoration and 18th Cen- continued on page 23

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Representative Poetry Online News continued from page 22 cently: ened nostrils ..." [Frost’s “My little ern English lexicography, cybertex- horse must think it queer …”]. tuality, and poetry. His current I was a bit astonished to find in Having crossed the Lievre on many research includes: "Forgetful Muses" (book on textual evidence Archibald Lampman's poem EVE- an occasion AND having photo- for cognitive authoring); "Teaching NING, his use of the phrase; "... graphed 7 ducks in a row at Ot- Literature and Language Online" (a The stilly woods grow dark and tawa's Bruce Pit ! [Lampman’s deep ...". As he was born about 13 collection of essays, edited for the “Morning on the Liève”] I grow Modern Language Association); a years before Robert Frost, I was fonder of Archibald the more I read book on the making of the Early William Shakespeare, tempted to speculate that Frost his work! by Lorenz Peter Modern English [“The woods are lovely, dark and lexicon, 1480- deep” in his “Stopping by Woods Become a friend of RPO if your “What’s in a name? That 1700; LEME; on a Snowy Evening”] may have love of English poetry, past and RPO". which we call a rose By any been inspired by Lampman's vi- present, takes you our way. other name would smell as sion ... and perhaps ... Lamp- sweet.” man’s WINTER EVENING Ian Lancashire. where ... "To-night the very horses Professor Lancashire’s teaching and Visit RPO at: —William Shakespeare springing by toss gold from whit- research is in the fields of Early Mod- [email protected]

Prescriptivism(e) & Patriotism(e) Conference - 17—19 August, 2009

What’s happening to language norms in this age of globalization? Find Lancashire (see above). We have a special day for educators, during out at our August conference! which we shall examine how the negotiation between traditional lan- Co-organized by faculty and students of English and other departments, guage rules and the evolution of language makes modern-language a dynamic academic conference will take place at University of To- pedagogy extremely dynamic and vibrant in the Canadian classroom. ronto’s New College from 17-19 August 2009. Prescriptivism(e) & This event will include presentations, a panel discussion among profes- Patriotism(e) explores how local and global politics affect language sors, instructors, and distinguished teaching assistants, and an open and language rules in Canada and abroad. This meeting brings together question forum. This conference will also have special rates for stu- local teachers, linguists and dictionary-makers, and an international dents. Our conference website has information about the program and panel of students and scholars. We will share our perspectives on what about how to register: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/ has shaped the diverse varieties of languages we use and the different prescrip/ language norms we observe. CONTACT FOR EDUCATORS: George Lamont Centre for Medieval Studies This bilingual conference extends the notion of prescribing language UTM English and Drama usage often associated with national academies and reference books. [email protected] Some historical topics consider how certain languages, dialects, and http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/prescrip/education.htm speakers were established as more legitimate than others. Our contem- http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/prescrip/education.pdf porary topics range from Acadian French to Zimbabwean English, from educators standardizing Creole spelling to performers who use Jamaican GENERAL CONTACT: Professor Carol Percy and Haitian Creoles in Québec hip-hop. Speakers at the special ‘Jackman Department of English Panel’ will present on language norms in contemporary Canada. Join us! University of Toronto This conference is open to the public: we all use language. Everyone can (416) 978-4287 attend the free keynote lectures — which even includes one by Prof. Ian [email protected]

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The study of English continues beyond the classroom. English language is constantly evolving; English Literature is richly vibrant, dynamic and relevant. Here is but a sampling of the many diverse events that our faculty, students and alumni participated in during the past year. Most events not only welcome members of the university community and alumni, but also interested members of the community as well. To learn more about upcoming events, please bookmark our website at www.utoronto.ca/english and watch for upcoming future events, invitations, announcements and dates.

must engage the complicated fine instructional quality of our interrelations of the review- faculty's teaching. We are either generous or with “:an justifiably proud, and look Itching to deride” (Pope)-and forward to next year's compe- tition. the reviewed. Whether lauded A professor and Canada Re- or libeled. search Chair in English Litera- Linda Hutcheon ture at the University of To- ronto, Professor Stevens is a leading authority on the works of the great English poet, John Milton, and was Head of the Department of English at Queen's University during the The Alexander Lectures: Linda Hutcheon late 1990s. Last year he was President of the Milton Society The Uses and Abuses of Re- Photo of Professor Hutcheon courtesy of Tim Yu. of America and Visiting Re- viewing was the subject of the search Fellow at All Souls Col- 2008-2009 Alexander Lec- Paul Stevens: Big Ideas cels blame; and blame can- lege, Oxford. He has won nu- tures by Linda Hutcheon. cels praise” (V. Woolf)? merous teaching prizes, most Linda presented the lectures at This year, Professor Paul Ste- recently the 2008 Northrop University College over four In the age of the ubiquitous vens was nominated as one of Frye Award for Excellence in days in March, 2009. The titles blog and the constant online the top ten finalists in the TVO Best Lecturer competi- Teaching and Research at To- of the lectures were: invitation to be a “customer tion. His TVO lecture, ronto. reviewer,” it is time to review • Why Review Reviewing “Milton’s Satan,” was broad- Today?: “No customer re- the task of reviewing. The cast on the TVO show “Big To read more about Paul Ste- views yet. Be the review is usually considered a Ideas” at on Saturday, March vens and the TVO competi- first.” (Amazon.com) secondary, even a subservient, 14th. The winning professor’s tion, visit: Byron)? and politics of reviewing today to another university, Profes- continued on page 25 • The Reviewed: “Praise can- sor Stevens exemplified the

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Highlights from 2008-2009 continued from page 24 theorist and writer, and sup- tives on questions of empire, porter of the American and gender, war, nationality, race, French Revolutions. The lec- and religion during the early ture crossed from Bengal to the Romantic period. Cape of Africa, London, and With acknowledgements to Dan Paris to provide new perspec- White and NASSR NASSR 2008 remarkable survey tour of the diversity of global Ro- Conference Another New Narrative Conference, May 2009 mantic culture, which high- The North American Society lighted the challenge of em- for the Study of Romanticism bracing the period’s incredi- This year’s “New Narrative” “Comics Off the was established in 1991 as a ble diversity while attempt- Conference took place within Page: Towards a forum for the discussion of a ing to retain or conceive the confines of The Toronto Theory of Per- wide variety of theoretical ap- coherent notions of Roman- Comic Arts Festival at the Cen- formance in the proaches to Romantic works of ticism. tral Reference Library. The Comics all genres and disciplines and of conference was smaller than last World.” (He is the subjects relevant to the interna- Esther Schor’s memorable- year’s (which was held over two author of Unpopular Culture: tional and interdisciplinary plenary, “Universal Romanti- study of Romanticism. The cism,” ranged across worlds days at University College). Transforming the European Comic University of Toronto hosted in order to trace the diversity There were 15 papers given by Book in the 1990s, and The System the 16th annual NASSR 2008 at the heart of Romantic con- participants from the United of Comics, a translation of Conference, in association ceptualizations of universal- States and Canada. About three- Thierry Groensteen's Système de ism. The lecture included a with Brock University, the Uni- quarters of these people are la bande dessinée (1997), a semi- reading of “On First Looking versity of Ottawa, Queen's professors or instructors, and otic analysis of the structure of University, and York Univer- into Chapman’s Homer” in the others are people working comics as a visual language.) sity. The theme was Esperanto, and a genealogy “Romantic Diversity.” of the word “universe” along in the field and graduate stu- Jeet Heer, who gave a lunch- with its derivatives in the dents. Attendance was strong time interview of The program for the four day context of universal lan- at the conference, and discus- the Canadian artist conference included 229 papers guage, universal rights, and sion was spirited and keen. As it David Collier, is presented in 78 sessions (of universal egotism. was part of the conference’s the editor of nu- which 22 were special sessions), along with 7 seminars, a special The third plenary by Linda mandate to make the proceed- merous books in presentation and field trip on Colley, “Trans-Continental ings as accessible as possible, all the field and, most “The Claude Mirror and the Romances, Gender, and panels were open, and free, to recently, A Comics Studies Reader Picturesque,” and featured Power: The World-Wide both presenters and the public. (for more, see: ). I hope Esther Schor, and Linda Colley: ing visions of the Irishman things about the conference and Francis: rake, member of that this will become an annual the field is the increase in its “‘Diverse, sheer opposite, an- Calcutta’s Supreme Council event! tipodes’: Diversity, Opposi- in the 1770s, fierce critic of theorization. Professor Bart Andrew Lesk tion, and Community in Ro- Warren Hastings both in Beaty (Calgary), for example, mantic Culture,” Jeffrey Cox’s India and London, political presented a paper entitled continued on page 27

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Literature for Our Time Henry Purcell’s 350th anniversary

The guests in this year's Lit- cant works published in the last cell and John Dryden, by erature for Our Time se- decade by emerging writers The Toronto Masque Theatre. ries were playwright Karen who have won the a attention of Papers were presented scholars Hines, poet Karen Solie, and critics, awards committees, and Michael Burden, Brian Corman, Todd Gilman, David Klausner, novelist Sam Lipsyte. This readers. Previous guests in the Ken McLeod, Andrew Pinnock, was the fifth year of the Lit- series have included Camilla James Winn and Stephen erature for Out Time series, Gibb, Eden Robinson, Richard Zwicker. The conference in- author visits held each spring Powers, Ken Babstock, Lynn cluded a round-table discussion within the Department’s Crosbie, Seth, and Chris Ware. of the performance with mem- first-year course of the same bers of the artistic team. TVOntario filmed the final name. The series is spon- King Arthur was presented at guest in this year’s series, Sam sored by the Canada Council the MacMillan Theatre, Univer- for the Arts, Victoria Uni- Lipsyte, and plans to air his ap- sity of Toronto, from April 23- versity, and the Department pearance this fall on Big Ideas. 24, 2009. The production was of English, and is open to the directed by Derek Boyes and Nick Mount Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière, university community, As part of the celebration of the Photos and quotations courtesy of: 350th anniversary of the birth of musical direction was by Larry alumni, and the public. Beckwith, and choreography by Nick Mount, semi-operas, King Arthur, along with performances of Gabriel Cropley. King Arthur by Henry Pur- KAREN HINES “Pochsy is the light that keeps us laughing as we plunge into the darkness. Beckett would have fallen for her.” Milton, Chaucer, Podcasts, Poetry, Prose & Graphic Novels! —Simon Houpt, eye Weekly Our faculty and students have dents, the many metamorphic KAREN SOLIE “Karen Solie’s work reminds me participated in a variety of changes of English are traced, that there is at the heart of metaphor a delicious events too numerous to list explored, analysed and cele- amoral joy.” here. While exemplifying the brated in our department. We —poet Don McKay meaning of diversity, all of these invite you to participate, get experiences enrich our knowl- involved, be entertained, be SAM LIPSYTE “Writing this deep is rare enough— writing this deep and this hysterical pretty much edge of English language and challenged, and be stimulated! didn’t exist until Lipsyte began pouring it on the literature. From the study of Visit our events page and calen- page. Paradise Lost to the latest book dar of our website regularly, launch by one of our grad stu- come out, and get involved!

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