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| October
2 |
Melba Cuddy-Keane:
Crafting the Self: How Memory Makes Meaning Texts and Readings: Selections from Mill, Strachey, Proust, Woolf, and Bechdel Melba Cuddy-Keane is Emerita Professor in the Graduate Department of English at U of T. Her publications include Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual, and the Public Sphere, the Harcourt annotated edition of Woolf’s Between the Acts, and, most recently, essays on narrative and cognition. Her collaborative book, Modernism: KeyWords, is scheduled for publication in 2013. |
| November
6 |
Sam Solecki:
Life-writing, Life-reading: Reading Fiction
Through Ourselves Texts and Readings: D.H. Lawrence, "Nottingham and the Mining Countryside"; Joseph Skvorecky, "The Bass Saxophone"; Michael Ondaatje, The Cat's Table Sam Solecki is Professor of English at the University of Toronto. His latest books include The Collected Letters of Al Purdy, Ragas of Longing: The Poetry of Michael Ondaatje, and a volume of Earle Birney's selected poems entitled One Muddy Hand. Current projects include a recently completed book on Francois Truffaut and a series of interconnected essays on the Etruscans in the Western Imagination 1960 to the Present. |
| December 4 |
Michael Ignatieff: Scarred
Tissue: Untangling Family Threads Texts: Michael Ignatieff, Scar Tissue and selected texts TBA Michael Ignatieff is a Canadian author, academic and former politician. He was leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition from 2008 until 2011. Known for his work as a historian, Ignatieff has held senior academic posts at the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, Harvard University, and the University of Toronto. |
| January
8 |
Garry Leonard:
Whining and Dining in Paris: The Art of
Lying in Paris Memoirs of the Twenties &
Thirties Text and Film: Sylvia Beach: Shakespeare and Company; F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Crack-Up"; Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast; Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas; Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris 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. |
| April 2 |
Paul Wilson: Giving Power
to the Powerless: the Legacy of Václav
Havel Texts: Václav Havel, Disturbing the Peace, Open Letters, and selected readings TBA Paul Wilson is a freelance writer, editor, radio producer and translator. He spent ten years in Czechoslovakia where he taught English and learned Czech. He was eventually expelled by the Communist government for his association with the dissident movement, particularly for his involvement with the underground music scene as a member of the legendary rock band, The Plastic People of the Universe. |
| May 7 |
Camilla Gibb:
Writing Memoir: Crafting Truth as "Real" as
Fiction Text: Camilla Gibb (ed.), The Penguin Book of Memoir Camilla Gibb is the author of four novels – Mouthing the Words, The Petty Details of So-and-so's Life, Sweetness in the Belly, and The Beauty of Humanity Movement. Her books have been published in 18 countries and translated into 14 languages. She is currently an adjunct faculty member of the graduate creative writing programs at the University of Guelph-Humber and the University of Toronto. She recently edited The Penguin Book of Memoir and is currently at work on a memoir of her own. |
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Crafting the Self: How Memory Makes Meaning
Selections from Mill, Stratchey, Proust, Woolf, and Bechdel TBA
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