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| September
25 |
Garry Leonard: Navigating
Our Sea of Troubles by
the Intermittent Flicker of Great
Literature
Texts: Readings to be posted from Franz Kafka, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Ursula LeGuin, Flannery O'Connor Garry Leonard, Professor of English at U of T, is widely published on James Joyce, Comp Lit, and Cultural Studies. His current project is Making it Now: Modernism, Modernity and Cinema. With his wife Deirdre Flynn, he has coauthored Where All the Ladders Start: 20th Century Western Culture in Literature and Film and When Harry Met Godzilla: How Hollywood Genres Hold the Key to Your Personality. He has also written a novel entitled Proxy. |
| October
30 |
Nick
Mount: Monsters and
Martyrs: Marie-Claire
Blais and Leonard Cohen Texts: Nick Mount: Arrival: The Story of CanLit; Marie-Claire Blais, Mad Shadows; Leonard Cohen, Let Us Compare Mythologies Nick Mount is a professor in the University of Toronto's Department of English. His latest book is Arrival: The Story of CanLit, a Globe and Mail and National Post Best Book of the Year. |
| December 4 |
Melba Cuddy-Keane: "The Jews . . . People Like
Ourselves": Seeing Difference and Seeing
Sameness in Virginia Woolf's Between the
Acts Text: Virginia Woolf: Between the Acts: Introduction and Annotations by Melba Cuddy-Keane Melba Cuddy-Keane is Emerita Professor, University of Toronto. A noted Virginia Woolf scholar and former President of both the International Virginia Woolf Society and the Modernist Studies Association, her publications include Virginia Wool, the Intellectual, and the Public Sphere (2003); The Harcourt annotated edition of Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts (2008); and the collaborative volume of Modernism: Keywords (2014), short-listed for an MSA book prize in 2015. |
| April
2 |
Cheryl
Suzack:
"Where
Three Classes of Land Meet":
The
Scattering Force of Federal Indian Law
in Louise Erdrich's The Round House Texts: Louise Erdrich: The Round House; Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian; other readings TBA Cheryl Suzack is an associate professor cross-appointed to English and Indigenous Studies at the University of Toronto and a member of the Batchewana First Nation. She specializes in Indigenous law and literature and indigenous-feminist studies. In the spring of 2018, she was a Fulbright Scholar at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. |
| May 7 |
Allan Heburn:
Meeting
Strangers: Albert Camus' L'Etranger Text: Camus: The Outsider; Optional, Vercours: Le silence de la mer (translated as Put Out the Light; other readings TBA Allan Hepburn is James McGill Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature at McGill University. He is the author of Intrigue: Espionage and Culture and Enchanted Objects: Visual Art in Contemporary Fiction. He has also edited four volumes short stories, essays, broadcasts, and book reviews by Elizabeth Bowen. His essays span topics in twentieth-century literature and culture such as refugee children, collecting, belatedness, opera, mistresses, and thrillers. His next book deals with faith and British culture during and after the Second World War. He co-edits The MacLennan Poetry Series at McGill-Queen's University Press. |
Tuesdays, 7:00 - 9:00 P.M.
at
The Women's Art Association
23 Prince Arthur Avenue
$195 (includes HST)
To Register:
Jane Griesdorf: 416-962-8546
or
email: janegriesdorf@writingconsultants.com
Tuesday, April 2, 2019with
"Where Three Classes of Land Meet": The Scattering Force of Federal Indian Law in Louise Erdrich's The Round House
Here Are Some Readings for Cheryl's Nite:
Text: Louise Erdrich: The Round House
Supplementary Text: Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian
Readings and Viewings:
A beautiful piece by Louise Erdrich on her friendship with Philip Roth: pdf
Joyce Carol Oates on The Round House:
This review contains plot "spoilers" best read after reading the novel: pdf
Louise Erdrich reading from The Round House: link
A Bill Moyer's interview on Erdrich's novel, Shadow Tag: link
An Evening with Louise Erdrich: link
Erdrich on the Environment: pdf
The Globe on King's The Inconvenient Indian: pdf
A great YouTube Interview with Thomas King: link
