2022 Winter Session Course Descriptions – Graduate
* PROVISIONAL LIST (December 2021)
Fashion Nation
Sandra Tomc University of Michigan Press 2021 Fashion Nation argues that popular images of the United States as a place of glitter and lights, of gaudy costumes and dizzying visual surfaces—usually understood as features of technomodernity—were in fact brewed in the rich, strange world of early nineteenth-century British and European folk nationalism when nations were […]
2021 Winter Session Course Descriptions – Undergraduate
100-Level Courses Pre-Major and Second-Year Electives Language and Rhetoric Literature Writing Majors and Honours Seminars 100-Level Courses Pre-Major and Second-Year Electives Language and Rhetoric Literature Upper-level Writing Majors and Honours Seminars
Undergraduate Programs
Our undergraduate programs have a broad and balanced curriculum that incorporates historical periodization, national and transnational literatures, genre studies, cultural studies, critical theory, rhetoric and English linguistics.
Graduate Programs
Our graduate programs in English language and literatures are among the most vibrant and wide-ranging in Canada. Our faculty are capable of supervising research projects in all of the major subfields of English studies.
Research
Discover our research networks and projects and the diverse range of our faculty publications.
Shakespeare and Queer Representation
Stephen Guy-Bray Routledge 2021 In this engaging and accessible guidebook, Stephen Guy-Bray uses queer theory to argue that in many of Shakespeare’s works representation itself becomes queer. Shakespeare often uses representation, not just as a lens through which to tell a story, but as a textual tool in itself. Shakespeare and Queer Representation includes a […]
Writing the Empire: The McIlwraiths, 1853–1948
Eva-Marie Kröller University of Toronto Press 2021 Writing the Empire is a collective biography of the McIlwraiths, a family of politicians, entrepreneurs, businesspeople, scientists, and scholars. Known for their contributions to literature, politics, and anthropology, the McIlwraiths originated in Ayrshire, Scotland and spread across the British Empire, specifically North America and Australia, from the mid-nineteenth […]