English Studies at the University Of Toronto

Department of English/Faculty of Arts and Science Editor: P. Coles Assistant Editor: M. Perry Autumn 2010

Volume 2, Issue 1 Welcome Back to the Department of English Autumn 2010 Inside this issue: By Alan Bewell we do in English and where awarded annually by the Welcome Back 1 we need to go in the future. Canada Council to allow The past year has been one They have also reaffirmed the recipients to continue to The Annual Creative Writing 1 of tremendous challenges. Showcase tremendous role that English contribute to the cultural Here, as elsewhere, the The 2010 Alexander Lectures 2 studies can play in Canadian and intellectual heritage of problems raised by economic society and the value of an Canada. Also Professor An ACCUTE Sense of Relief 3 uncertainty have been front English degree. Over the Daniel Heath Justice was Bent on Yoga 4 and centre, and this situation past year, we have continued awarded the 2010 Ludwik has required us to find new Tributes and Tidings 6 our work of community and Estelle Jus Memorial and creative ways of achiev- Celebrating the newest 7 building, particularly with Human Rights Prize, while ing our educational and re- Anthology of Canadian Literature our alumni. Last year we Professor Paul Stevens re- in English search objectives. This has co-sponsored a number of ceived a President’s Teach- been “the year of reviews.” John Baird 8 very successful Backpack to ing Award, which is the In the Fall, our graduate Linda Hutcheon 10 Briefcase events, which highest award for teaching at program was reviewed by brought current undergradu- the University of Toronto. Magdalene Redekop 12 the Ontario Council of ate and graduate students in This issue of the English Venice 2010 14 Graduate Schools (OCGS), contact with successful Studies at the University of and, perhaps not surpris- Stranded in Venice 15 alumni. It was such a success Toronto aims to provide you ingly, we did extraordinarily 18 that we are doing another with a sense of the exciting Fall Campus Day well. This was also the year series of “B2B” events this things currently going on in Faculty Accolades 18 in which we were asked by year. the Department of English. the Dean of Arts and Science “Monsters in Myth and the 19 I hope you enjoy it. Media” to come up with a five-year Our faculty continue to excel The 2010 Molson Prize Winner: 20 plan for the Department of in research and teaching. Linda Hutcheon English. All this has been This year Professor Linda The Linda Hutcheon Graduate 21 very challenging. Hutcheon was awarded a Scholarship Fund prestigious Molson Prize in These reviews have required The A.S.P. Woodhouse Prize 22 Social Sciences and us to think a lot about what Humanities. This prize is The Brian Corman Graduate Prize 23 The Writer-in-Residence, 25 Barbara Gowdy

The Annual Creative Writing Showcase In Memoriam: Paul Quarrington 26 By Jeff Parker sharp and controlled, cutting his name for a second-year The Adam Penn Gilders 26 Scholarship in Creative Writing If you keep up with recent and funny and powerful. Un- student in the MA in English fortunately, he passed away a in the Field of Creative Writ- Support the Department of 27 Canadian writing, you English might be familiar with the few years ago at a young age. ing program at U of T. work of Adam Penn Gild- Now his friends and family Alumni Information Update Form 28 continued on page 24 ers. His prose style was have endowed a scholarship in

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"The man that hath The 2010 Alexander Lectures no music in himself, By Pamela Coles Nor is not mov'd but rather visu- The Alexander lectures were alized, into the with concord of sweet founded in 1928 in memory of framework of former English Department lyric theory. Head Professor W.J. sounds, The real treat, Alexander. The talks on devel- however, was Is fit for treasons, opments in literature and liter- Professor ary theory are delivered on Culler’s read- stratagems, and four consecutive days. By de- ing, in his final sign, the series affords listeners talk, of an ex- spoils." a substantial degree of insight cerpt from into an invited lecturer’s com- Gerrard Manley William Shakespeare, pleted works or a current work -Hopkin’s “The The Merchant of Venice in progress. The talks are al- Leaden Echo (V, i, 83-85) ways a mid-winter pleasure. and the Golden Jonathan Culler Cornell Professor Jonathan Echo.” His Culler’s series on “The Theory obvious delight in the playful, of the Lyric” was no exception History and Literature, 1966) labile nature of the poem was to this rule. Following the tra- obvious as he read: “Nay, and Oxford University (B Phil jectory of the lyric from Sap- what we had lighthanded left in Comparative Literature, pho, Petrarch, Goethe and in surly the mere mould/Will 1968; D Phil in Modern Lan- Baudelaire and then into the have waked and have waxed guages, 1972), he has worked present, Culler gave a wonder- and have walked with the on nineteenth-century French fully comparative summation of wind what while we slept / literature (especially on the fundamentals and the family This side, that side hurling a Flaubert and Baudelaire) and resemblances of lyric across heavyheaded hundredfold/ on contemporary literary time. aÉ w|áàtÇvx Éy ÑÄtvx ÉÜ What while we, while we theory and criticism Addressing the more practical slumbered” to great applause. (especially structuralism, de- ÄtÑáx Éy à|Åx vtÇ ÄxááxÇ issues of the study of the lyric, construction and French the- he spoke about the pedagogical  ory generally). He primarily à{x yÜ|xÇwá{|Ñ Éy à{Éáx ã{É tendency to search for a narra- teaches courses on literary tÜx à{ÉÜÉâz{Äç ÑxÜáâtwxw tive in lyric that makes it easier theory and on aspects of the to teach poetry through ques- About the speaker: history of the lyric. tions as is typically done in the Éy xtv{ Éà{xÜ:á ãÉÜà{A Jonathan Culler is Class of classroom. He also raised the 1916 Professor of English and issue of the difficulty of putting Comparative Literature at eÉuxÜà fÉâà{xç contemporary poetry such as Cornell University. Educated concrete or language poems at Harvard University (BA in that are not meant to be read

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An ACCUTE Sense of Relief

By Steven Bruhm ACCUTE’s U of T office and easily. Craig Patterson you’ve done to assure its success. continued to promote the worked tirelessly with the folks On behalf of all members of Steven Bruhm valuable work of the associa- at the Federation to promote Association of Canadian Col- ACCUTE Past President tion’s least enfranchised ACCUTE through its own lege and University Teachers Robert and Ruth Lumsden Professor of groups, it kept strict control channels of dissemination, and I of English (ACCUTE), I want English of its finances, it reported its understand we are on the cusp to congratulate Heather The University of Western Ontario doings to the Association with of having an electronic mem- Murray, Craig Patterson, Pam clarity and openness—in bership registration system. Coles and the rest of the team short, it maintained all the Heather Murray’s sure hand has at the University of Toronto practices of ACCUTE ad- continued to improve the for a splendid administration ministrations before it, but ACCUTE/CACE hiring survey over the past two years. also kept us aware of the par- so that it asks what we need to When U of T took the reins of ticular urgency of dealing know with a sure sense of why ACCUTE in the summer of with the down-turn in the we need to know it. And Pam 2008, they were about to be markets. Coles has dealt with members’ where no one ever wants to concerns and questions effi- But it did more than tread be: running a large non-profit ciently, knowledgably, and water and encourage us to organization in the midst of an with a delightful sense of hu- look forward to brighter economic crisis. As we would mor. (You need that sense of days. On top of the usual come to learn over the next humor in her job, as her prede- responsibilities of organizing two years, the economic melt- cessors know.) the annual conferences (both down had serious effects on of which were tremendous Throughout this very successful many members of our organi- successes), supporting English tenure of ACCUTE’s admini- zation. Tenured and tenure- Studies in Canada (which is in stration, Heather and her team track faculty faced wage terrific shape on many have been very vocal about the freezes or cuts to travel funds, fronts), and lobbying for remarkable support they have people in contract positions government support through received from all levels at the found their contracts not being its participation in the University of Toronto. This renewed, graduate students Federation for Humanities support began with Brian heard an even louder wail of and Social Sciences, the U of Corman’s ensuring that doom for the future of the job T team also completely re- ACCUTE would find a home market. Of course no one in vamped the website, which there, and has continued our position can correct these was in need of a facelift. A through the ranks to the circumstances, but one can special thanks goes to Laurel department’s staff and graduate meet them with responsibility, Ryan for her efforts. We now students. To all of you we say sensitivity, and institutional have a new, sleek, informa- thanks. Running a large savvy. That’s exactly what tive, and attractive site that association on a shoestring is Heather and her team did. provides information quickly difficult, and we appreciate all

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Bent on Yoga

every nerve and fibre of the Outside of yoga class we might body. These are the words of a be inclined to call this kind of recent convert. I joined the permissiveness mercy-giving class late in the school year and on her part and wimping out so had to watch, out of the cor- on ours. In yoga class, how- ners of both eyes–it’s a trick ever, we call these enlightened I’m learning… without a knife– moments, gestures of compas- as the regulars around me bent sion and self-awareness. and moved themselves into Throughout the class Prof. what seemed, at first, the most Harvey also gently nudges and improbable of positions. guides her followers in their positioning in order to help us The class is for beginners. There to achieve an effortless rather By Pamela Coles release, think oxygen supply are no SSHRCs awarded for than an effortful practice–hard to those “little grey cells” that Whether we are talking about perfect poses. There is no pres- to conceive of as we balance on we all depend on to get our its students, faculty or its ad- sure to best or outdo each one leg with the other ex- work done. Better yet, think ministrative staff, the Depart- other. There is no pressure to tended straight out behind us about your health and well- ment of English is full of folks publish on the subject beyond and only the fingers of one being. who spend much of their day what you are reading here. In hand helping to hold up our fact, Prof. Harvey constantly sitting and dealing with the If you can get past your initial bodies while we turn our heads reminds us to opt for less pain- written word in its sometimes apprehension about appearing away from the one place we ful, alternative positions should pleasurable but far more often in your yoga get-up in front of instinctively like to keep watch we find ourselves gasping for less amiable forms. All of this colleagues, or worse, your over when in danger of falling breath, experiencing pain or the sitting and working translates students or your profs, you down: the ground. kind of trembling of limb that into a lot of slouched bodies, find that these, like other ba- presages a complete collapse. aching bodies, bodies that are nal concerns of the ego vanish constricted in their flow of as Prof. Harvey’s mellifluous energy by inactivity and stress; voice leads you through a class a good reason for more of us to that is meditative, informative join Elizabeth Harvey’s mar- and a downright delight to vellous weekly yoga class. For those of you literally minded types who find energy flow a little too woo-woo a concept "To keep the body in good health is a to entertain seriously, think duty...otherwise we shall not be able to blood circulation, think toxin keep our mind strong and clear.” Buddha (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, 563‐483 B.C.) Photos: Marguerite Perry

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Elizabeth Harvey very gener- many levels. And while the can the kind of mind-body balance teacher in her, however, re- ously donates her time in the in which the money is collected that is often missing from aca- mains. And what a fabulous preparation and the leading of after each class may be a little demic life is hugely rewarding. teacher she is. Thanks must also these classes and the attendees, lighter on some days than oth- A sidebar benefit of the arrange- be given here to GEA president in turn, donate to the Graduate ers, its karmic carry-forward is ment is the fact that she also (2009-10) Adele Wilson, who English Association (GEA) immeasurable. For Prof. gets to relate to colleagues and organised the yogic occupation travel fund. The result is a Harvey, this is one of the more students in the Department in a of JHB 100 and who offers en- wonderful circle of providing satisfying outcomes of this way that is completely different couragement and support to that speaks to a mutual pledge year’s yoga experiment. Help- from the dynamic of her strictly newcomers and veterans of the to community-building on ing those around her to achieve professorial interactions. The class.

I encourage other students, fac- ulty and staff to consider ex- ploring one of the best reasons to be on the St. George campus after 5:00 pm. Your minds and bodies will thank you for it.

"Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind." ‐Patanjali, translated from Sanskrit

"Blessed are the flexi‐ ble, for they shall not Elizabeth Harvey and her group of Yoga practitioners, be bent out of including students, staff, and faculty members shape." from the Department of English. ‐Author Unknown

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Tributes and Tidings

The following are excerpts from Watson, a study of formal Greig Henderson’s speech on the verse satire in England after occasion of the retirement of John Pope, and a study of tea in Baird, Linda Hutcheon and English literature and culture. Maggie Redekop. But he is also known for his recitations of and talks on Wil- “Once again we gather to liam McGonagall, the nine- celebrate the end of term and teenth-century Tay Bridge to pay tribute to our retiring Scottish bard. It is the Tay colleagues–John Baird, Linda Bridge bard who will concern Hutcheon, Maggie Redekop, us this afternoon. and Ruth Harvey. Ruth actu- “To pee, or not to pee…” ally retired last year, but since Who can do justice to Linda she was the only retiree, it was Hutcheon’s accomplishments, her translations, her more than articles on Mennonite litera- thought fit to allow her to un- the honours she has received 132 journal articles, her 112 ture, Northrop Frye, James dergo ritual humiliation this (among them, University chapters in books, her 44 re- Hogg, William Faulkner, and year. Professor), her major research views and review articles, her so forth, not to mention her awards, her editorial work, her John Baird’s contribution to 471 invited lectures and con- production of countless re- professional activities (among ference papers presented. If views, stories, encyclopedia our department has been enor- them, President of the MLA), mous. He has served as Pro- this isn’t the Kantian mathe- entries, conference papers, her more than sixty graduate fessional Faculties Coordina- matical sublime, I don’t know and readings. She too has supervisions, her department tor, MA Secretary, what is. And she is an exem- done the department some PhD Secretary, Di- plary departmental citizen to service. For today’s purposes, rector of Graduate boot, another colleague who however, you need only keep Studies, and Associate never says no. For today’s in mind her book Mothers and Chair, not to mention purposes, however, you need Other Clowns: The Stories of Alice his university service only keep in mind Narcissistic Munro, which for metrical as Associate Dean. Narrative: The Metafictional exigencies becomes Moms and He has been on every Paradox, The Poetics of Postmod- Other Clowns, and her book committee you can ernism, The Politics of Postmod- chapter “The Pickling of the think of and is an ad- Nick Mount chats with Linda Hutcheon ernism, and Irony’s Edge: The Mennonite Madonna.” I have ministrator’s dream, virtually attending from Paris. Theory and Politics of Irony. no idea what “The Pickling of as I have had occasion Maggie Redekop is also an the Mennonite Madonna” is exemplary teacher and scholar. about, but it scans beautifully. to find out so many service, and above all her pub- times over the past few dec- Winner of the Victoria Ruth Harvey has also done the lications–her nine single- ades. Academically, he is University Teaching Award, university some service as MA authored books, her three co- she has published books on Secretary and as Associate known for the Oxford edition authored books, her thirteen Alice Munro, Ernest Thomp- of William Cowper’s poetry, a edited and co-edited books, study of the career of Richard son Seton, and Rudy Wiebe, Continued on page 8

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Celebrating the newest Anthology of Canadian Literature in English

By Pamela Coles of new authors, including date. those instructors of Canadian Nellie McClung, Christian Literature who use anthologies The Massey College Common Bök and M.G. Vassanji, and What distinguishes this an- as resources in the classroom, Room was the site of the infor- updated selections from writ- thology from others on the this publication is the most mal launch of the third edition ers that were previously in- market is the collective ex- comprehensive one out there. of An Anthology of Canadian Lit- cluded in past editions, this perience of its editors. Ben- We congratulate Professors erature in English (Oxford) ed- publication boasts the most nett and Brown are seasoned Bennett and Brown on their ited by Donna Bennett and Rus- diverse collection of antholo- editors who are also active latest accomplishment. sell Brown. With a peppering gized Canadian authors to teachers in the field. For

Donna Bennett and Russell Brown

Photos: Alan Bewell Neil ten Kortenaar and Andrew DuBois

Nick Mount, Donna Bennett, Russell Brown, and William E. John O’Connor and Daniel Tysdal Toye, formerly of Oxford University Press

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Tributes & Tidings John Baird continued from page 6

Director, Graduate Coordina- Dean and Vice Provost Brian Corman tor, and PhD Secretary of the authored the following words of praise Centre for Medieval Studies, to in honour of John Baird’s many con- mention but a few of her contri- tributions to English scholarship and butions. Among her books and to the life of the department: parts of books are The Inward Wits: Psychological Theory in the  Middle Ages and the Renaissance, John Baird is a man worthy of all The Image of Love, and The Court praise, of Sapience. For today’s pur- And for his achievements I hope a poses, however, you need only monument the people will raise, keep in mind her articles on “The Swallow’s Nest and the That will stand for many ages to Spider’s Web” and on “The come Judgment of Urines,” along To commemorate the good deeds he with her forthcoming book enti- has done. tled “The Faithful Messenger:  Urine and Uroscopy in the Mid- dle Ages” and a talk she gave on Canada’s centenary year brought “The Poetry of Urine.” Some John Baird, with three Master’s parodists would take the high degrees in hand, to the then in- road, but what follows is in dependent Department of Eng- some sense a urinary tract. lish at Victoria University to John Baird, portrait by David Blostein, 2008 begin his forty-three year teach- I call today’s production Hamlet ing career at the University of and his Problems: A Subjective Cor- Toronto. John’s worth was im- series set the standard for edition provided us for the first relative. Sandy Leggatt will play mediately apparent to his col- the role of John Baird/Hamlet, scholarly editing for genera- time with an edition worthy of leagues; he was awarded tenure Patricia Howard will play the tions. Its blue volumes re- this major poet. It is itself a two years before the completion role of Linda Hutcheon/ main the first place to look monument, and one that will of his Princeton doctorate in Hamlet’s ghost, and I, stretch- for reliable, well-edited stand for ages. 1970. His doctoral dissertation ing the Elizabethan notion of texts. Producing an edition prepared the way for his major– John’s scholarly interests ex- what constitutes a boy actor, up to the standards of the and massive–contribution to tend well beyond Cowper, will play the role of Maggie series was always a challenge. eighteenth-century scholarship, indeed, well beyond the full Redekop. Alan Bewell will play But there are challenges and the three-volume edition of The range of eighteenth-century himself. challenges. Editing Cowper Poems of William Cowper which poetry that has been so central is a far greater challenge than to his work. His expertise in appeared between 1980 and editing most eighteenth- Photos: Marguerite Perry 1995. The Oxford English Texts eighteenth-century science and century writers. And John’s philosophy and on editorial

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John Baird continued from page 8 theory and practice have been most dedicated and inspira- our Director of Graduate quiet competence. And to all demonstrated in print along tional teachers—of all things Studies and our Associate of these activities he has also with publications on such au- eighteenth century, but also Chair, Undergraduate. He brought his personal integrity thors as Dryden, Nathanael of the nineteenth-century was also Associate Dean of and commitment; John has Lee, Fielding, Sterne, Gibbon, novel and novelists, especially both the School of Graduate never shied away from a role I Blake, Dickens, Rupert Austen, Dickens, Thackeray, Studies and the Faculty of have admired for years, that Brooke, Woolf, and Forster. and James. John is also one Arts and Science. He has of reminding his colleagues of Many of us have enjoyed sam- of the last members of the been active in the Toronto the priorities and principles ples of two long-standing, Department willing to teach Centre for the Book and in we share. the full spectrum of English the Collaborative Program in larger projects, his study of  Richard Watson, an eighteenth literature. Nothing testifies Book History and Print Cul- -century chemist, divine, more strongly to his commit- ture. Outside the University, bishop, and all-round contro- ment to teaching than his he has shared his administra- Oh dearly beloved Professor versialist, and his literary/ years of lecturing to large tive talent with the Canadian Baird, I must conclude my muse, cultural history of tea in Eng- groups of students in Major Society for Eighteenth- And to write in praise of thee my land from 1660 to 1830. British Writers. That com- Century Studies, including pen does not refuse These are works we eagerly mitment—indeed that devo- serving as Conference Presi- Because you are a very generous await. tion—to teaching and to the dent for the 2000 meeting in concerns of students earned Toronto, with the Association man, be it told,  him the University’s Joan of Canadian University Worthy of a monument, and your Success to Professor John Baird, Foley Award for Quality of Teachers of English, where he name written thereon in letters of who is a good man, Student Experience in 2007. was its Secretary-Treasurer gold. And to gainsay it there’s few peo- Our collective experience of for two years, and ple can, John also includes his remark- with the U of T I say so from my own experience, able service in so many areas. Press, where he served on the de- And experience is a great defence. He has served, I would guess, on every Department com- manding Manu- He is a good man, I venture to mittee we have struck in the script Review say, past forty-three years, and I Board. John has Which I declare to the world with- would also guess that this rarely declined a out dismay. would hold for the many request to help us; even today, when  committees at Victoria. He coordinated our teaching in Alan Bewell needed Most everyone in this room the Professional Faculties help revising our shares with me some experi- when we did such teaching. constitution, he ence of John’s contributions to He was our MA Secretary, turned to John. To this Department, the Univer- PhD Secretary (since re- all of these activities John Baird, Summer 2010 sity, and the profession. He named Associate Directors), John has brought his has always been one of our low-keyed, often Photo: Clare Orchard

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Linda Hutcheon

By Neil ten Kortenaar Linda would have been on the Rushdie. It is less than North- PhD in 1975 with a thesis enti- committees of no less than rop Frye’s, it is true, but it tled “Narcissistic Narrative.” Neil ten Kortenaar, Director of 30% of all the theses in the does means that Linda is the Then began a period, familiar the Centre for Comparative department over the last most cited living Canadian to many of our graduates, of Literature, spoke these words in twenty years and would have scholar of English. Indeed, teaching without a full-time honour of Linda Hutcheon, also supervised 15%, or more according to my calculations, if position. Linda taught for six on the occasion of last spring’s than one seventh! Linda has Linda Hutcheon were a fully years at McMaster and at Se- Annual General Meeting: written 9 books alone and autonomous department, she neca as an adjunct. Hard as it is another 3 with Michael her would rank in terms of re- to imagine, Linda Hutcheon, It is the custom, every year at husband. She has edited 13 search output somewhere this department within the this time, to say a few words as books or special issues of ahead of UTSC and just behind department now so synony- a part of the English department journals, and has published Queen’s. In terms of number mous with English at the Uni- leaves, and the department another 7 long essays as sepa- of students supervised, she versity of Toronto, was almost takes stock and girds itself to rate books. That is 32 titles would figure in the graduate not based here. The originator continue. This year, however, in 30 years, or more than a equivalent of the Maclean’s of the term “historiographical is different. This year Linda title a year. She has published survey as the number 8 English metafiction” parlayed her lon- Hutcheon is retiring. It is the 135 journal articles and 119 department in the country. gevity into tenure at McMaster end of an era. chapters and entries in books. And, in that idiosyncratic Mac- on a technicality. After repeat- Linda Hutcheon was a She has given 471 talks and lean’s category, English de- edly not considering her for University Professor. Anyone lectures all over the world. partments with a medical positions, in 1988 Toronto new to U of T who thinks that She is a doctor at least eight school, she and Michael to- found room for the woman University Professor is merely a times over. In other words, gether would rank number who at that time had authored rank above Full Professor is Linda’s retirement is the one. five books, Narcissistic Narrative, mistaken. A University Profes- equivalent of the loss to us of Formalism and the Freudian Aes- Linda Bortolotti grew up in sor is a professor who acts as a a mid-sized English depart- thetic, published with Cam- Toronto and met Michael in one-person university. There ment. It is as though the tri- bridge, A Theory of Parody, pub- high school. She studied mod- can only ever be a limited num- campus English department lished with Methuen, A Poetics ern languages at University ber of these for Ontario law has were about to lose one of the of Postmodernism, published with College and went on to Cor- strict controls on the establish- suburban campuses. Routledge, and The Canadian nell to study Italian. As she ment of new universities. Con- Postmodern, published with Ox- According to the citation tells it, when she realized that sider the statistics: 61 PhD ford. Of course, within twelve index Publish or Perish, Linda without native fluency she theses Linda has supervised years Linda was president of has been cited 5,605 times in could not get a job in an Italian since coming to U of T in 1989! the MLA and commuting not Google Books. Her h-index, department, she returned to And she has served on another to Hamilton but to New York. a formula based on how many Toronto to study at the Centre 61 thesis committees! Some of books a scholar has produced for Comparative Literature, Her experience of these theses were in Compara- as well as on citations, is 17. which had come into being in being outside on the margin tive Literature or other depart- That is the same h-index as 1969. Linda was the Centre’s and then a few years later at the ments like Law or Music, but Marshall McLuhan or Salman first graduate, receiving her centre, and then, a few years had they all been in English

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Linda Hutcheon continued from page 10 later still, above it all, gave solidarity as well as cri- have time to work on at least Linda particular lenses with tique. Irony, she has two new projects, one called which she viewed the world. taught us, implies a com- “Age, Creativity, and Late The title of one of her books is munity that gets it. Style” and the other called Irony’s Edge, another is Splitting “Reviewing Reviewing.” Images, and yet a third is called That community is us. Those titles seem to suggest a Adaptation. Linda’s interstitial We will feel Linda’s ab- lingering postmodern fascina- position, in-between in terms of sence in the increased tion with self-reflexivity. We disciplines, of languages, and of numbers of students in the English Department, status in the academy inspired needing to fill thesis however, hope another of her her critical work. She also committees. Look to our titles remains appropriate: speaks movingly of her crypto- workloads to increase. “Gone Forever, but Here to Linda Hutcheon ethnicity, the Italianness hidden The only relief I see is Stay: The Legacy of Postmod- by her married name, and has that there will no longer ernism.” Clad Foucault.” But her de- co-edited a collection called be the pressure of sitting on light in doubling extends far Other Solitudes: Canadian Multi- committees with someone who beyond verbal games. Why, cultural Fiction and Interviews. gives feedback on thesis chap- reasoned Linda, work on one Linda, the doyenne of postmod- ters with a 24-hour turnaround subject when you can work on ernism, has also always pub- time. two? She has written on the lished widely on Canadian sub- politics and poetics of post- In her retirement Linda will jects and made her location in modernism, on opera Canada part of what she stood and medicine. And why for. work alone when you Irony makes one aware of divi- can work with someone sion and incompleteness, but in else? With Caryl Clark, Linda’s case, splitting has always Linda organized the been balanced by a compulsive extremely successful penchant for doubling up. Cer- series of 3-day-long tainly her titles reveal a terrible Opera Exchange Sym- punster: “Eco’s Echoes,” posia, with Mario Val- “Pumping Irony,” “Loading the des she published the Canons,” “The Post Always multi-volume MCRI- Rings Twice: The Postmodern funded Rethinking Liter- and the Postcolonial,” ary History, and of “Otherhood Issues,” “Melodies course, with Michael and Maladies,” “The Tones of she has written several books. Linda’s take on Venice,” “Compli(ci)t,” “The View from Apartment Window, South of France Pastime of Past Time,” “Irony- politics has always involved Photos: Linda Hutcheon

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Magdalene Redekop

By Heather Murray MA student in 1969, and held Those who know Maggie Re- Cambridge Companion to the positions of sessional lec- dekop as an important scholar Canadian Literature. Out of this Professor Magdalene Redekop turer and then lecturer while in the area of Canadian literary cluster of interests emerged has been a dedicated and imagi- undertaking her doctorate. studies, and especially of Cana- the two distinct specialties that native teacher of students in Appointed to the rank of dian women authors and of directed her later writing ca- English at Victoria University Assistant Professor on the “hyphenated” Canadian litera- reer: the study of that most and at the University of Toronto completion of her dissertation tures, might be surprised by challenging of short-story writ- for more than forty years. (For in 1976, promoted to the topic of her dissertation, on ers, Alice Munro, and the the members of this assembly Associate Professor in 1981 “The Narrative Art of James emergent field of Canadian who might be new to the ba- and to Full Professor in 1995, Hogg” under the supervision of Mennonite literary studies, in roque organizational history of she has led an academic life Jay Macpherson. Maggie has which Maggie is both a critic English at Toronto a word of that is intimately intertwined maintained her interest in and a creative practitioner. In explanation is in order: there with the Department and Scottish literary studies, with a terms of theoretical orienta- was a multiplicity of English with Victoria (the exception sidebar specialty in modern tions, her work also has been programs until relatively re- being a brief trip Maggie took American literature as well. pioneering, and in some ways cently, and Victoria granted its “across the park” in the mid But she belongs to a long tradi- prescient. Concerned early on own honours degrees in English 1980s, to test the waters at tion in this department, of with issues of mothering, nur- until 1974.) Maggie first set Trinity). scholars who started out in turing, the maternal body, and foot in the classroom as a rookie other fields entirely and ended the ethics of care-taking, she up drawn to Canadian studies also dealt with questions of ( Russell Brown and Germaine “affect” some decades before Warkentin being only two ex- affect theory emerged under amples). Her first book in 1979 that name. Maggie’s painstak- was on the popular nature and ing work on Alice Munro came outdoor writer Ernest to fruition with her book Thompson Seton, a Canadian Mothers and Other Clowns, pub- author who made his reputa- lished by Routledge in 1992. tion and eventually his home in A key figure in the field of the United States. Articles and Mennonite cultural studies, she conference talks on other top- has published a number of lit- ics soon followed: on E.J. Pratt erary and autobiographical and on Northrop Frye (two pieces and stories, and has figures with Victoria connec- helped to network and to ad- tions), on Rudy Wiebe, vance Mennonite authors, for Margaret Atwood, and Alice example, convening a reading Munro. Maggie has also penned panel for the Mennonite Bicen- a number of more synoptic tennial Celebrations in 1986. essays on Canadian literary Committed to diversity and to Portrait of Magdalene Redekop by David Blostein, 2005 studies, most recently for the cultural interconnection,

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Maggie also has helped to institutional involvements in council, a task for which the with an open door, a sympa- promote Canadian literary this latter part of her career. word “thankless’ should be thetic ear, and a strong sense of studies inside and outside the Her book-length manuscript reserved, and as a member-at- mentorship and academic mis- country. She has acted as a “Making it Up: Mennonites and large on the UTFA executive sion. consultant to the provincial Art in Canada” is nearing com- during a difficult time in the And so: be it resolved that the Ministry of Education on mul- pletion. life of that organization. But General Meeting of the Depart- ticultural readings for school She also has been able to re- much of Maggie’s “service” ment of English express its curricula. Special mention sume her service commit- occurs outside of committees, gratitude to Professor Magda- should be made of her role in ments, which deserve special as members of this department lena Redekop for her many con- promoting Canadian culture mention here as a further ex- will know very well: happen- tributions to teaching and schol- in Japan, lecturing on Cana- tension of the concern for eq- ing in the old-fashioned way, arship at Victoria College, and dian fiction and Canadian art. uity and social justice evi- She seems to have been able denced in her academic writ- Selected Publications to do this without lecturing on ing. Maggie has a long record "Haunted by Hymns: The Fate of Melody in "Mennonite" Poetry." In Anne of Green Gables, which of service to Victoria, and has Sound in the Lands (ed. Maureen Epp and Carol Ann Weaver). Pan- is in itself an accomplishment. been for many years one of the dora Press, 2010. In recognition of her efforts most involved members of the 'The Mother Tongue in Cyberspace', published on line at she was awarded the Gover- College council, indeed of the www.mennonitewriting.org , Spring, 2009. nor of Hokkaido medal in college community. During “Canadian Literary Criticism and the Idea of a National Literature.” In 1982. her career she has served in The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature (ed. Eva Marie It is a sad fact but one that many capacities: the Board of Kroeller). Cambridge University Press, 2003. must nevertheless be ac- Regents and its sub- Mothers and Other Clowns: The Stories of Alice Munro (Routledge, knowledged, that Maggie’s committees, the academic ad- 1992). teaching and scholarly activi- visory committee, on ad hoc Current Research ties necessarily were scaled and awards committees, and so I am working on the manuscript of a book entitled: “Making It Up: back after she suffered a seri- forth. With her special con- Essays on Mennonites and Art.” It is the underlying hypothesis of this ous fall in 1990 when working cerns for pedagogy and for book that the hostility to representation that was a central feature of on an installation at Victoria creative writing she has served the Reformation has paradoxically resulted, centuries later, in the College, in her role as the in the Faculty of Arts and Sci- flowering of the art of Mennonites in Canada. The focus of the book is College’s art convenor. The ence and in the Department on primarily on those Mennonites who came to Canada from Russia, the effects were long-lasting. a number of literary prize, first group arriving here as immigrants in the late nineteenth century, Another blow, of a different writer-in-residence, and teach- the second as refugees in the late 1920s. My arguments in the book nature, came later in the dec- ing advancement committees. are based on my view that the crisis of representation takes different ade with the sudden and en- Members of the Department forms in different cultures. tirely unexpected death of her of English should especially My own ethnicity has pushed me into this often uncomfortable inter- husband Clarence. It is all the acknowledge her recent service disciplinary territory. After I finish this book I am hoping to turn to writ- ing on comedy in Canadian fiction, the subject of my graduate teach- more admirable, then, that as the “English Representative” ing for many years. she has been able to resume to University of Toronto her scholarly writing and her Faculty Association (UTFA)

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Venice 2010

By Katie Larson Paul Stevens, and Chris War- the weekend, and the ensuing fied by the Tintoretto paintings ley, and PhD students Suzanne discussions lively and often preserved in the Scuola Grande It is difficult to imagine a Grégoire, Timothy Harrison, inspiring. di San Rocco and Titian’s altar- Mingjun Lu, and Jennifer piece in the Basilica di Santa more appealing springtime The conference hub, at the McDermott presented their Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, and to conference destination than Centro Congressi Don Orione current research in stimulating peruse the performance listings Venice, the site of the 2010 Artigianelli, was ideally situ- sessions that included “Early at the recently restored La Fen- meeting of the Renaissance ated in Dorsoduro, a short Modern Air,” “The Intellectual ice opera house. Other mem- Society of America (RSA). walk from the Galleria Culture of Puritan Women, bers of our group took day trips From 8-10 April the mean- dell’Accademia, the Peggy 1558-1680,” “Genre as Instru- to the neighboring islands of dering streets and canals of Guggenheim Collection, and ment of Scientific Inquiry,” Murano, Burano, and Torcello, this magical city were bustling several gelato stands. Many of “Rethinking Intellectual Com- visited the Basilica di San Marco with early modernists from us stayed on for a day or two munities in Seventeenth- and the Jewish Quarter, or par- around the world who assidu- (or longer in some cases, Century English Royalism and ticipated in popular tours - the ously combined a wealth of thanks to the volcano!) after Republicanism,” “Mary Palazzo Ducale, the Arsenale, conference activities with the conclusion of the meeting Wroth,” “Representing Sensory Padua – organized by the RSA. Venice’s cultural and culinary to explore the surrounding Experience in Early Modern delights. area. Prompted by the spec- We all, regardless of individual Literature,” and “Humanist tacular weather, I spent much itinerary, reveled in the food. I Ten representatives from the Neo-Latin Texts.” Breakout of my free time wandering spent one delightful evening Graduate Department of Eng- locations were scattered through piazzas and side with members of the Interna- lish contributed to the confer- throughout the city, which streets undiscovered on previ- tional Sidney Society at the ence as presenters, panel or- caused some logistical chal- ous trips to Venice. I stopped floating La Calcina restaurant, ganizers, and panel chairs. lenges when moving between along the way to sample the watching the sun set over the Faculty members Elizabeth panels. The sessions, however, city’s astonishing Renaissance Canal della Giudecca; the menu Harvey, Katie Larson, Lynne were well attended throughout Magnusson, Randall McLeod, architecture and art, exempli- and the atmosphere were such

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that I returned later in the weekend with the panelists Stranded in Venice: a teachable moment and co-organizer of the “Gendering Time and Space By Paul Stevens much reading because I became were looking so relaxed, in Early Modern England” engrossed in back-to-back epi- happy, and, needless to say, sessions. Another favorite Increasingly, as one gets older, was the Osteria Al Mascaron, sodes of Glee. A real find. Be- knowingly post-modern. tucked away on a narrow transatlantic flights come to be fore I knew it we’d arrived at Enough to make you weep. street in Castello, which fea- an ordeal. Off to Venice for the Martin Heidegger Interna- By the time we got over the tured exquisite fish and sea- the Renaissance Society of tional Airport in Frankfurt and Alps and landed at Marco food. And the apartment America’s annual conference, it soon became clear why the Polo airport, I’d had it. Abso- shared by several among the our game plan was to get two famous philosophical school had lutely knackered with only department contingent – a aisle seats in a three-seat row become so resilient. Getting the prospect of smelly canals, lovely palazzo overlooking an so that the middle seat would enclosed garden in Dorsoduro from one terminal to another polenta, and locals going on - became the site for an im- be free. It worked and my par- turned out to be extraordinarily and on about Inter Milan. I promptu banquet of fresh ticular reward was that I had a demanding, both physically and mean who needs it. mussels and a memorable handy space for my overnight intellectually. At one point, as Once we got to the hotel wine and cheese event. survival pack of a TLS (which we sprinted down corridors, we things began to look up. The I’d been carrying around un- The RSA is unique in bringing felt we were miles ahead of light and clean air were be- read since January), various together scholars working in Alysia Kolentsis, her husband ginning to have an effect and early modern studies from a fun books by Quentin Skinner, Mike, and their beautiful new the Foscari Palace was as good range of disciplinary perspec- and a bag of Werther’s origi- baby, Lucia. But when we got tives. The decision to situate nals. In the event, I didn’t do to the Venice-gate there they continued on page 16 the annual meeting in Venice, with its rich Renaissance his- tory and culture, its architec- ture, its art, and its music, could not be more fitting. The conference was a feast for the mind and for the senses.

Photos: Pg14: The Grand Canal (Katie Larson)

Pg15: Palazzo façades and canals near the Università Ca'Foscari Palazzo Mal- canton Marcorà (Katie Larson)

Page 16 Paul Stevens, Lynne Magnusson (courtesy of Paul Stevens) Suzanne Grégoire, Jennifer McDermott, and Katie Larson on the Accademia bridge (Jennifer McDermott)

Page 17Paul Stevens (courtesy of Paul Stevens) Gondolas and canal shots (by Jennifer McDermott)

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head off for dinner. Across the room is Stephen Greenblatt, his wife Ramie Targoff, and their pals. “No gawking, guys. Let them gawk at us.” And they do, trying to figure out who we are and whether or not we’re worth knowing. Now that’s something – to have out- gawked the rich and famous. As we leave, Stephen and Ramie appear to be making out. Should I snap them with Lynne’s new cell-phone cam- as it sounds. Overlooking the fumus” (“Nothing is stable if era? Life seems to be full of such Grand Canal, it was only a few not divine. The rest is moral dilemmas. High point of houses down from the Ca smoke”). If you were going to the conference? Easy. The Party d’Oro, now a museum where, do a Penguin edition you’d at the palazzo rented by our after gazing out over what have to stick the Mantegna on guys, Suzanne Gregoire, Piers someone like Evelyn Waugh the cover, right? Brown and his partner Flora, would call the “incomparable The conference itself, what Katie Larson, and Jen McDer- scene below,” you can find all could have been just another mott. Also there, Tim Harri- St. Sebastian kinds of stunning paintings, professional gathering, is son, Alysia and family, and John including Mantegna’s image of by Andrea Mantegna transformed by the city. Im- Leonard from Western. It’s like 1490 Ca' d'Oro, Venice Saint Sebastian. In contrast to perial Venice: the Lion of St. the brilliance of the morning, Mark exalted on his column poor old Sebastian’s ordeal in the piazzetta, expressing puts ours into perspective. sublime self-confidence as he Bound hand and foot and punc- stares out over the Adriatic. tured by a flight of nasty- Everyone seems buoyed, ene- looking arrows, the tortured mies embrace, and the same- boy looks none too happy. old seems new again. So this Then, it hits you. Of course. is what the aesthetic can do, So this is what’s driving especially when you’re not Brideshead and Waugh’s crea- just looking at it, but actually tion of Sebastian Flyte. A little living in it. After our papers scroll at the bottom of the and a grand reception at the painting says it all, “Nihil nisi island monastery of S. Gior- divinum stabile est. Caetera gio Maggiore, a couple of us

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being in a movie, you know, we’ve only got one night left Enchanted April or something: at the Foscari. What are we “The grace and gaiety of the supposed to do? warm south” seems to touch There follows an evening of everything. As we wander mounting tension as we listen home through the labyrinthine to German guests hiring cars, alleys and sudden squares, it Brits invoking the Dunkirk seems like Shakespeare’s Bel- spirit, hourly expecting the mont: “In such a night as this, Royal Navy to turn up, and when the sweet wind did gently Albertans blaming Eastern kiss the trees...” Canada. I’m not daft, but my Yes, of course, you’re right -- solution to head south to Pal- it’s all a bit too good to be true. ermo, get a boat to Morocco, Even as we power up the canal and fly from Casablanca in the late-night vaporetto, the arouses no interest. The hotel the Provost of Trinity’s words toiling away in his Orchard divine in the peculiarly miser- staff are too polite to show as an “enforced volcan-ation,” got us through those dark able form of Vulcan’s Norse their disdain for my plan, but but, you know what, the ex- days. We were survivors, and cousin, Thor, is sharpening his I feel hurt, deflated even. perience was character- now I often think back to arrows. The following day we Fortunately, Lynne, an Ice- building. It was a teachable mo- another great survivor, the catch the train for Rome. Once lander every bit as formidable ment. You learned a lot about comic Bob Monkhouse, there, we walk along the Via as Eyjafjallajokull, is there to your limitations, most impor- whose words seem to capture Sacra up onto the Palatine hill. restore stability. With clinical tantly in my case, just how the true nature of our tri- Even as we gaze south across precision, she unpacks her much gelato you could consume umph: “When I told people I the valley of the Circus Maxi- new, multi-app-ed IPad: she in a day. And indeed, only a wanted to be a comedian, mus to the Aventine hill, the figures out a new number to renewed and chastened appre- they laughed. Well, they’re place where it all began when call, rebooks our flight, and ciation of colleagues like Andy not laughing now.” Aeneas met Evander, far to the then, believe it or not, north Eyjafjallajokull is blowing negotiates a reduced her wretched Icelandic top. rate at the hotel. “A Great clouds of volcanic ash Daniel come to judge- begin to cover Northern ment, yea, a Daniel!” I Europe, so much so that not think to myself. Fi- even Tom Cruise-piloted F18s nally, we can see our dare to challenge their suprem- way through the acy for fear of being punctured. clouds, so to speak. We’re stuck, bound hand and The only downside is foot. We get back to Venice: that we’ll have to I’ve now got the flu, nothing’s spend another ten days flying out of Marco Polo, Air in Venice. Many will Canada (surprise, surprise) laugh at our misfor- won’t answer the phone, and tune, referring to it in

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Fall Campus Day - 2010 Faculty Accolades

visitors and provided infor- George Elliott Clarke re- UTSC. This is a three-year mation about the Department ceived an Honorary Doctor of term, from 1 July 2010 to 30 of English in general and Un- Laws from the University of June 2013. Christine will be dergraduate Studies in par- Windsor. (Oct. 16,'10) the first Chair of the first Eng- ticular. The interest in the Richard Greene is a finalist lish Department at UTSC. Department was impressive: for the Governor General's (July 1,'10) literally hundreds of students Literary Award in Po- Holger Schott Syme was queued patiently to eagerly By Marguerite Perry etry. (Oct. 13,'10) awarded tenure. (May 19,'10) ask questions. Alexandra Gillespie is this Paul Stevens was one of the This year’s Fall Campus Day year's recipient of the UTM winners of the President’s “In 2009, of the 1,239 grade (Formerly UofT Day) was Teaching Excellence Award Teaching Award. (Apr. 22, 12 students who registered to held on Saturday, October 23, for outstanding teaching by a '10) attend Fall Campus Day, 754 2010. It was a valuable oppor- faculty member. (Sept. 8,'10) (61%) of them applied to the Mary Nyquist and Cannon tunity for prospective students Faculty of Arts and Sci- Jill Matus was selected as a Schmitt were promoted to to visit our campus before ap- ence. Of those applicants, Fellow of the Royal Society of the rank of Full Professor as of plying to the University. Infor- 572 (76%) were admitted Canada. (July 14,'10) July 1, 2010. (Apr. 6, '10) mation booths were installed in into the University.”1 This the buildings around King’s Simon Dickie and Sarah Records of Early English confirms the importance of College Circle. Along with the Wilson, who were promoted Drama (REED) did very well Fall Campus Day in attracting booths from other Humanities, to the rank of Associate Pro- in last year’s SSHRC competi- and maintaining a high caliber Social Science and Rotman fessor and have been awarded tion. David Klausner won a of undergraduate students in Commerce, the Department of tenure. Dana Seitler, who Standard Research Grant for the Department of English. English information booth was was already appointed as Asso- his REED project on located at University College. ciate Professor, was also “Yorkshire, North Riding.” Website: www.utoronto.ca/ awarded tenure. July 8,'10) Also, REED was the recipient fallcampusdays of a SSHRC Public Outreach Fall Campus Day is ex- Christian Campbell was grant to develop a Learning tremely important to awarded a prestigious Lannan Zone feature for the AHRC- prospective students, as Residency Fellowship, which funded London Theatres Bibli- it provides them with provides uninterrupted writ- ography to be launched this critical information about ing time for poets, writers, fall at Southampton. the wide range of pro- essayists, scholars, curators, as (Apr.6,'10) gram choices available at well as indigenous, environ- the University of To- mental and social justice activ- Holger Schott Syme was ronto. This year, the ists. (July 7,'10) awarded a SSHRC Standard Department of English Lynne Magnusson took Research Grant. (Apr. 5,'10) was represented well by over the Directorship of The Germaine Warkentin will Associate Chair Nick Centre for Reformation and be receiving a "Lifetime Mount, Undergraduate 1. Celeste Francis, Recruit- Renaissance Studies. (July Achievement Award" from the Counsellor Vala Holmes, Mar- ment Officer, Faculty of 1,'10) Canadian Society for Renais- guerite Perry, and English Stu- Arts and Science Christine Bolus-Reichert sance Studies at the Congress dents’ Union (ESU) Co- was appointed Chair of the in 2011. (Mar. 1,'10) President Jonathan Scott, who Photos: Marguerite Perry new Department of English at spoke with a large number of continued on page28

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“Monsters in Myth and the Media,” by Pamela Coles

By Clare Orchard that there is a profound human need for the monsters in our In May 2010 the university- lives - the need to confront the wide spring reunion hosted a dangerous, the enemy, and the series of lectures entitled unknown. “Going Back to School for the Weekend.” One of the lec- The talk took us through the tures in this series was deliv- manifold appearances of mon- ered by Dr. Pamela Coles, a sters in literature through the

Dr. Pamela Coles delivering a Spring Reunion lecture to University of Toronto alumni, 29 May 2010.

member of the administrative ages from classical times, staff in the Department of through medieval and into con- Photos: Jimmy Vuong, Alumni and Advancement, U of T English, and a former gradu- temporary culture. To illus- ate student of Prof. Linda trate contemporary usage of Hutcheon (Centre for Com- the terms “monster” and parative Literature, 2008). “monstrous,” we were shown (with the support of entertain- Dr. Coles’s lecture, entitled ing visual aids) how these terms “Monsters in Myth and the have been used in media head- Media,” took a thought- lines and in the depiction of provoking, edifying, and en- politicians. The talk concluded tertaining look at the long with questions from a rapt au- tradition of the representa- dience to whom the fascination tion of monsters in life and of this topic clearly appealed. literature. The presence of monsters and the monstrous spans many ages and cultures, leading Dr. Coles to suggest

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The 2010 Molson Prize Winner: Linda Hutcheon

By Pamela Coles from the Canada Council for the Arts and Angela Ferrante, The prestigious Molson representing the Social Sciences Prize, awarded annually to and Humanities Research two distinguished Canadians Council (SSHRC) offered their working in the arts and in acknowledgement of Professor the social sciences and hu- Hutcheon’s unparalleled manities was presented to achievements in the field of Linda Hutcheon at a well literary theory and their con- attended event on October gratulations on behalf of those 6th. Heartfelt congratula- bodies that administer the tory speeches were given by award. In her remarks follow- Dean Meric Gertler; Dean ing the presentation of her Brian Corman; Alan Bewell, award, Professor Hutcheon Chair of the English Depart- very graciously thanked all those ment; Neil ten Kortenaar, in attendance and cheerfully Director of the Centre for remarked that winning the Mol- Comparative Literature, Dr. son Prize would now allow her Pamela Coles, Dr. Caryl to undertake new research with- Clark and Dr. Barbara out having to fill out yet another Havercroft. Tammy Scott, regular SSHRC application.

Left to right: Angela Ferrante, Linda Hutcheon, Tammy Scott

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Announcing the Linda Hutcheon Graduate Scholarship Fund

By Pamela Coles she has published 9 books. She nadian and the first Canadian what literary scholarship can Donations to the Linda Hutch- has also worked collabora- woman to hold this position. be. It does not have to be soli- eon Graduate Scholarship Fund tively in large research pro- Committed to mentoring the tary. Research, publication, will help to create a scholarship jects involving hundreds of next generation, she has super- and teaching, she has taught us, to honour University Professor scholars, including the multi- vised over 60 doctoral disser- are all collective enterprises. Emeritus Linda Hutcheon for her volumed "Rethinking Literary tations. stellar contributions to scholar- History—Comparatively." She is Professor Hutcheon is the The Department of English and ship and teaching. guilty of having indulged in most cited living Canadian the Centre for Comparative The Linda Hutcheon Scholarship interdisciplinary work with scholar of literature, the only Literature at the University of Michael Hutcheon, MD, and worthy successor to Northrop Toronto have established a Frye. According to the citation scholarship in Linda’s name to index Publish or Perish, she be awarded to an incoming has been cited 5,605 times in PhD student in English or Google Books. Her h-index, a Comparative Literature work- formula based on how many ing in the areas of contempo- books a scholar has produced rary literature, theory, or in- as well as on citations, is 17, terdisciplinary approaches to the same h-index as Marshall literature. This is the most McLuhan or Salman Rushdie. appropriate gift we can give But, more than her publica- her. If you would like to do- tions, Linda has transformed nate to the Linda Hutcheon the ethos of the academic units Scholarship Fund, it is possible she works in by making all to make an online contribution will be awarded to a PhD student Professor Emeritus of Medi- relations warmer and more at: working in English or Compara- cine, U of T, on the intersec- human. The two words most https://donate.utoronto.ca/ tive Literature in the areas of tion of medical and cultural associated with her profes- english theory, contemporary literature, history, studied through the sional presence among us are or interdisciplinary study. This vehicle of opera. After three generosity and community. All (Photos both pages: Marguerite Perry) scholarship is shared between books on topics such as dis- her students can testify to her English and Comparative Litera- ease, death and the body, they generosity. Since coming to U ture, and the student recipient are now working on one about of T 1989 she has supervised will alternate between both units the late style and last works of 61 PhD theses! She has served annually. long-lived opera composers. on another 61 thesis commit- Linda Hutcheon, University Pro- The recipient of major fellow- tees! Her example has taught fessor Emeritus of English and ships, awards, and honorary all of us, her students and her Comparative Literature, is a spe- degrees, in 2000 she was colleagues alike, what the cialist in postmodern culture and elected the 117th President of mentor-student relation can critical theory (especially irony, the Modern Language Associa- be. Linda has also provided us parody and adaptation), on which tion of America, the third Ca- with a wholly new model of

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The A.S.P Woodhouse Prize

By Deidre Lynch wrote, in beautiful cursive members of the Toronto fac- tory—sadness at the realiza- script, letters describing the ulty: Professors Paul Stevens, tion that a wonderful tradition In an obituary he wrote for A. merits of the theses they Lynne Magnusson, Karen is perilously close to dying out, S. P. Woodhouse shortly after wished to nominate for the Weisman, Malcolm Wood- because the fund established by Woodhouse’s death in 1964, F. Prize. It’s even more fun to land, etc. The most recent A. S. P. Woodhouse’s alumni, E. L. Priestley commented on encounter the thank-you winner is Coby Dowdell, friends, and associates is now how, with ninety former stu- notes from now-famous liter- who won the Prize for almost exhausted. The dents of the former head of the ary scholars--people who “Ascetic Citizens: Religious amount that the Department University College Department profess literary studies at Dal- Austerity and Political Crisis has been able to give out for of English serving as faculty housie, Calgary, Carleton, in Anglo-American Litera- individual awards has actually members in universities Trent, Waterloo, Laurentian, ture,” which he submitted in gone down over the years, throughout Canada, the United even though the $250 given to States, Britain, India, and “in the winner in 1982 had much fact . . . wherever English lit- more purchasing power at- erature is studied,” “something tached to it than the $100 my of [Professor Woodhouse’s] office could afford to disburse influence” continued to be “at in 2010. It would be wonder- work.” This has continued to ful to see the fund replenished, be the case more than forty and it wouldn’t take much. years later, in part thanks to the For instance, if the previous generosity of those alumni who, Woodhouse prize winners, along with friends and associates especially the ones now enjoy- of Professor Woodhouse, ing the financial comfort of helped endow the A. S. P. tenured positions, would Woodhouse Prize. That prize pledge to give back to the fund has been awarded on a yearly what they received from it at basis since 1982, to the author the start of their careers, then of the best doctoral thesis sub- Graduate English at Toronto mitted in the English Depart- would be able to sustain a tra- ment in a given year. dition that helps out our There is a good deal of pleasure graduates at the same time that to be derived from looking Calgary, Illinois, Harvard, summer 2009. (Dr. Dowdell it pays homage to A. S. P. through the sturdy file folder Oxford, and many other in- also was the winner in 2010 Woodhouse’s achievements. that the graduate office has stitutions--who won the Prize of the Canadian Association of Thank you for considering this (ever thrifty) used for almost just as they were starting out Graduate Studies/UMI Dis- request. three decades now to house the in the profession, and who tinguished Dissertation award To donate to this historic and correspondence documenting wrote to the Department to for the most promising thesis important award, please visit the history of the Prize. A state just how much the vote in the fine arts, humanities, our Department of English twenty-first-century director of of confidence the award rep- and social sciences by a Cana- Giving page: https:// graduate studies who does so resented had meant to them. dian scholar, but that’s an- donate.utoronto.ca/english discovers, for a start, that there (They also almost universally other story.) was a time when her colleagues note how the money has been One also feels some sadness did not fire off e-mails to her helpful too.) Included in this in encountering this piece of Photo courtesy of Ian Lancashire and RPO predecessors but instead hand- group are many current University of Toronto his-

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The Brian Corman Graduate Prize

By Marguerite Perry -century drama. His publica- University of Toronto Quarterly tion and/or eighteenth- tions include Women Novelists for many years. He is a century studies, and who have Professor Brian Corman has before Jane Austen: The Critics member of the Canadian and distinguished themselves both made a lasting and continuing academically and by their contribution to the Department leadership and contribution to of English at the University of the life of the University Toronto. through student governance, community service or volun- After Professor Corman teer work. The first award received his PhD from the will be given when funds per- University of Chicago, he joined mit, and although the prize is the Department of English at designed to be given annually, Erindale College (now Univer- the award will not be issued sity of Toronto, Mississauga) at in a given year unless a suit- the University of Toronto in able candidate is identified; if 1970. He is both a fellow of not issued, then the funds will Trinity College and a senior be carried forward to the sub- fellow of Massey College. Brian sequent year. Currently, we Corman served as chair of the are seeking donations for this Department of English (St. fund, and are confident that George) in the Faculty of Arts we will soon reach the point and Science, and graduate chair where it shall be a self- of the tri-campus Graduate Eng- sustaining annual award. This lish Department from 1997 to award will be a fitting recog- 2008. In addition to his teach- nition for Professor Corman, ing, Professor Corman has been an educator who left his mark a member of Governing Council and their Canons (2008) and American Associations for on the Department of English since 2000, and somehow he Genre and Generic Change in Eighteenth-Century Studies, in many, varied ways, not the found time to also serve on nu- English Comedy, 1660-1710 the Humanities Association of least of which continues to be merous university committees. (1993). His wide ranging Canada, and the Canadian his dedication to Graduate Furthermore, he is currently teaching interests include Association of Chairs of students. serving in his second year of a critical theory, seventeenth- English (including serving a five year appointment as Dean and eighteenth-century Brit- year as its Chair). of the School of Graduate To give to the Brian Corman ish literature, comedy and Studies at the University of Graduate Prize, please use satire. The Brian Corman Toronto and Vice-Provost, our form on page 27 of this Graduate Prize Fund was Graduate Education. newsletter, or visit our online Professor Corman’s research begun with donations from giving form at: https:// has been supported by the various donors including donate.utoronto.ca/english A specialist in seventeenth- and Social Science and Humanities eighteenth-century British friends, students and col- Research Council of Canada. leagues of Professor Corman. literature, Professor Corman He has served on a number of The prize is to be awarded to has written extensively on peer-review committees, a graduate student or students dramatists and novelists, literary advisory councils and editorial in the Department of English, Photo courtesy of Brian Corman theory, the history of the novel, boards, and as editor of the and seventeenth- and eighteenth who are working on Restora-

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Creative Writing Showcase continued from page 1

To show our gratitude for the share Gilders’s promise. The Anyone interested in check- scholarship and to showcase winning story was subse- ing out some of Adam Penn Tà Ñt|ÇyâÄ à|Åxá? the MACW program, we held quently published in Event Gilders’ work can search for ã{xÇ vÉÅÑÉá|à|ÉÇ |á an event March 4, which was a magazine and selected to his story “Barnyard Desires” rather spectacular time. (If you appear in this year’s Journey on The Walrus website. For |ÅÑÉáá|uÄx tÇw Üxtw|Çz incline to suspicion at the iden- Prize Anthology. updates on alumni of the tification of a literary reading UofT creative writing pro- |á ÇÉà xÇÉâz{? zÜtÅ@ MacDonald read with his as a “rather spectacular time,” gram check the website: ÅtÜá tÇw w|và|ÉÇtÜ|xá rest assured that it was far mentor Michael Winter, one http:// more spectacular than this of the most dedicated and www.english.utoronto.ca/ tÜx xåvxÄÄxÇà yÉÜ w|á@ play-by-play.) generous of the program’s grad/programs/ mentors for the past five macrwriting.htm àÜtvà|ÉÇA One current student and one years. Winter, a part-time recent alum read with their Newfie and part-time respective mentors. The men- Torontonian, wearing his @ XÄ|étuxà{ UtÜÜxàà torship, which is the signature signature blazer-over-hoodie If you would like to make a UÜÉãÇ|Çz feature of the MACW pro- never fails to entertain, and contribution to our Emerging gram, allows each student to one could plainly see how Writers Scholarship Fund for spend the entirety of his or her perfect a fit he is to mentor a MA students in Creative second year working one-on- young writer like Writing, please use our one with a prominent Toronto MacDonald. donation form on page 27 of -based writer. Past and current this newsletter, or our mentors include Margaret Brooke Lockyer, who gradu- Department of English Giving Atwood, Camilla Gibb, ated the MACW program in page: https:// Barbara Gowdy, Anne 2009, read with her former donate.utoronto.ca/english Michaels, Paul Quarrington, mentor, Catherine Bush, David Adams Richards, Leon who is now the director of the MFA program at Guelph- Rooke, Miriam Toewes, Jane "All books are Urquhart, and many others. Humber. They each read novels-in-progress, and merely delayed The first of the Adam Penn Brooke’s was an excerpt Gilders scholarships was from her thesis, which has dust." awarded this past academic recently been agented by the year to then second-year Anne McDermid Agency. - George Elliott “The answers you get MACW student Andrew Brooke credits Catherine for Clarke from literature depend on MacDonald for his story helping her take the book far “Eat Fist.” He turns out to have beyond her initial vision for the questions you pose.” been a fitting winner. His the project. work evidences a shared - Margaret Atwood literary sensibility with The hope is that the event Gilders, and he also seems to will become an annual one.

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Jack McClelland Writer-in-Residence, Barbara Gowdy

By Nick Mount & Marguerite Perry was nominated for several Mister Sandman. Toronto: Barbara Gowdy will be on awards, including the Man Somerville House, 1995. campus during the spring Each year the University Booker Prize, and it was a term. She will conduct a non- appoints a Canadian writer to finalist for the Rogers We So Seldom Look on Love. credit creative writing semi- work with students, faculty and Writers' Trust Prize and the Toronto: Somerville House, nar on Wednesdays, 6-8 pm. staff interested in creative Commonwealth Writers' 1992. The focus will be on fiction. writing. The term of the Prize for Best Book. Helpless

Jack McClelland Writer-in- won the Trillium Award. Falling Angels. Toronto: Interested students, staff or Residence is January to April. Somerville House, 1989. faculty should submit a two- The Writer-in-Residence is Several of her novels have page sample of fiction with a

housed at Massey College. been adapted for movies. self-addressed, stamped, Falling Angels (1989) was Through the Green Valley. return envelope and email This year's Jack McClelland adapted by Esta Spalding and London: Piatkur, 1988. address to Prof. Nick Mount Writer-in-Residence is the made into a film by director at the address below. novelist and short-story writer Scott Smith, in 2002. We So Enrollment is limited to 15 Barbara Gowdy, a member of Seldom Look On Love was the  students. The deadline is the Order of Canada and a three inspiration for the 1996 Friday, Nov. 26. -time nominee for the Gover- Canadian film Kissed. Helpless nor General's Award. Her most was abridged and adapted for Selected Awards: Nick Mount recent novel is Helpless BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime Associate Professor and (HarperCollins, 2007). in 2008. Appointed Member of the Associate Chair

Order of Canada. Department of English Barbara Gowdy was Jackman Humanities Building appointed a member of the Finalist, Governor General's University of Toronto Order of Canada on October Award for Mister Sandman. 170 St. George Street 5, 2006. She resides in Toronto. Toronto, ON M5R 2M8 Finalist, Giller Prize for Mister [email protected]  Sandman.  First Prize, Trogi Award for Barbara Gowdy’s Publica- We So Seldom Look On Love. tions: Born in Windsor, Ontario, Finalist, Trillium Award for Barbara Gowdy is the author of Helpless. Toronto: Harper- Mister Sandman. seven novels, and her work has Collins, 2007 been published in 24 countries. Finalist, Trillium Award for She has been nominated for a We So Seldom Look on Love. Governor General's Award for The Romantic. Toronto: her novels Mister Sandman, The HarperCollins, 2003 White Bone, and Helpless. The  White Bone was nominated for The White Bone. Toronto: the Giller Prize. The Romantic HarperCollins, 1998.

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In Memoriam: Paul Quarrington

By Rosemary Sullivan travelogue about the Galapagos Adventures in Palestine and Israel, On 21 January 2010, Paul focused on his favourite pastime: later published in Canada, the Quarrington died of cancer. fishing. He wrote the comic US and England. He also men- He was fifty-seven. Paul was series Moose TV, winning the tored Matthew Loney in 2007- a force field for creativity. He CFPTA Indie Award for Com- 08. The program is grateful to was a novelist, memoirist, edy. He played in a band called Paul for his work, his generosity travel writer, screenwriter Porkbelly Futures, which produced and his good humour. We imag- and professional musician. several CDs including the popu- ined our collaboration could continue indefinitely. We will His novel Whale Music won lar “Well Past Midnight.” He Paul served as a mentor in the sorely miss him. the Governor General’s also toured as a solo musician. pioneering year of our Creative Award for Fiction in 1989 During his illness, Paul com- Writing MA program, 2005- and was later adapted to pleted a soon-to-be-published 2006. He worked with Jona- film—the film became an memoir titled Cigar Box Banjo: than Garfinkel through the first instant classic. He wrote a Notes on Music and Life. draft of his book Ambivalence:

Adam Penn Gilders Scholarship in Creative Writing

The Adam Penn Gilders Schol- His stories appeared in The tive writing in Toronto. This schol- Fiddlehead, Event, and Broken arship in Creative Writing was Walrus, The Paris Review, and J&L arship will allow the young poets, Pencil. He won the inaugural donated by the Friends and Illustrated . He was the dear only fiction writers and playwrights to Adam Penn Gilders Award, co- Family of Adam Penn Gilders. son of Carla (Penn) and Clay- focus their time, energies and tal- won the Hart House Review liter- Adam Penn Gilders passed away in ton Gilders and stepson of ents on their writing, and enable ary contest, and is a finalist for 2007 of a brain tumour at the age Chris Bartle. them to take full advantage of U of the prestigious $10,000 Journey of 36. Adam was a student at the T's unparalleled intellec- Prize for his story Faculty of Information Science The Adam Penn Gilders tual and creative re- "Eat Fist!" Andrew (FIS) but left in his first term (fall of Scholarship in Creative sources. was also recently 2005) because of his illness. He was Writing was established with nominated for a an instructor at the Faculty of Ar- the intent to support and en- Andrew MacDonald's Western Magazine chitecture, Landscape, and Design courage the best and brightest stories and reviews have Award for Fiction. at the University of Toronto, and students from Canada and been published in a vari- an accomplished writer in Toronto. around the world to study crea- ety of places like The

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