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| September 27
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Garry
Leonard: The Axe and the Frozen Sea – Literarure, Film, and the Life of
the Mind Readings: Edgar Allan Poe: "The Pit and the Pendulum"; Edward Albee: The American Dream, Zoo Story, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; JD Salinger: Catcher in the Rye; James Joyce: "The Sisters." For filmography, see below under "Current News." 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. He has also written a novel entitled Proxy. |
| November 1 |
Charles Pachter: Art, History, and the
Creative Imagination Texts: Ben Shahn, The Shape of Content; Denis Dutton, The Art Instinct; any bio of Governor John Graves Simcoe Charles Pachter is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, historian, and lecturer. He is a member of the Order of Canada, a Chevalier of France's Order of Arts and Letters, and holds an honorary doctorate from Brock University. His works hang in public and private collections around the world. |
| December
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Allan Hepburn: Enchanting Objects
– Utz and I Texts: Bruce Chatwin, Utz; selections from Allan Hepburn, Enchanted Objects Allan Hepburn is Chair of the Department of English and Professor of English at McGill University. His latest book, Enchanted Objects: Visual Art in Contemporary Fiction, has been published to great acclaim in the art and literary world. |
| January 10 |
Jane Urquhart: Figure in a Landscape – Visual Triggers for
One Canadian Author Text: Jane Urquhart, Sanctuary Line Jane Urquhart is an Ontario author of many internationally acclaimed novels, short stories, and poetry. They include such titles as The Whirlpool, Changing Heaven, Away, The Underpainter, The Stone Carvers, A Map of Glass, and Sanctuary Line. Recipient of many awards, she is an Officer of the Order of Canada and a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France. |
| April 3 |
Marlene Goldman: Irony and
Illness in Alice Munro's "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" Texts: Alice Munro, "The Bear Came Over the Mountain"; Mordecai Richler: Barney's Version; other readings TBA Marlene Goldman teaches courses in contemporary Canadian fiction, diasporic and transnational literature, women's writing, and feminist theory at the University of Toronto, Department of English. She is the author of Paths of Desire: Images of Exploration & Mapping in Canadian Women's Writings and Rewriting Apocalypse in Canadian Fiction (forthcoming McGill-Queen's Press). |
| May 1 |
Andrea Most: Food for Thought: Turkey Sex
and Other Food and Farming Adventures Andrea Most will be joined by Chef Joshna Maharaj for this exciting lecture/demo finale! Texts: Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life; supplementary, Michael Pollan, The Omnimore's Dilemma Andrea Most is Professor of American Literature and Jewish Studies at U of T. Author of Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical and Theatrical Liberalism: Jews and Popular Entertainment in America (forthcoming), she has begun a new project on food, religion, and sustainability. She is teaching a food literature course entitled “Cook the Books,” in collaboration with chef Joshna Maharaj. |
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