"To
see the way others see. To think the way
others think. And above all, to feel*:
Literature
and the Human Condition (*Rushdie)
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-CenturyLiterature
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