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Prestige Newsletter Template 1 ENGLISH Colour 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 Department of English Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5R 2M8 Page 2 English Studies at The University of Toronto 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- <deptofenglish.graduate@utor able to convey and allow you ing regularly updated news onto.ca>. 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 Department of English Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5R 2M8 Page 3 English Studies at The University of Toronto 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 Visit us online at www.utoronto.ca/english Page 4 English Studies at The University of Toronto 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.
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