English

Alan Ackerman

Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • English
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of the United States

Areas of Expertise

• American drama
• American literature
• Cold war culture
• Literature and the environment
• Modern drama
• New York intellectuals
• Privacy and free-speech debates

Office: 416-946-3455
Email: alan.ackerman@utoronto.ca
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Alexandra Gillespie

Vice President University of Toronto, Principal, University of Toronto Mississauga

Professor, Department of English & Drama, University of Toronto Mississauga

Professor, Medieval Studies, Centre for Medieval Studies

• Campus
  • U of T Mississauga
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Drama
  • English

Areas of Expertise

• Early printing press and early manuscript books – Asia; South Asia; Africa; Middle East/Mediterranean; Europe; “New” World
• Medieval and early modern literatures in English
• New scientific approaches to cultural heritage objects – e.g. proteomics; ancient DNA; advanced imaging and microscopy

Office: 647-895-6764
Website
Email: alexandra.gillespie@utoronto.ca
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Alice Maurice

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Cinema Studies
  • English
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of the United States

Areas of Expertise

• Documentary film
• Early U.S. Cinema
• Film theory
• Race and cinema
• Turn of the Century American Literature and Culture

Office: 416-287-7180
Email: maurice@utsc.utoronto.ca
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Andrea Most

Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Science

Cross-appointed, School of Environment and Centre for Jewish Studies

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • English
  • School of the Environment
• Centres
  • Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Environmental issues
• Environmental literature and nature writing
• Food literature and food issues
• Local food systems

Office: N/A
Website
Email: andrea.most@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Andrew Lesk

Sessional Lecturer, English, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • English

Areas of Expertise

• Canadian literature
• Cultural studies
• The graphic novel

Office: N/A
Email: andrew.lesk@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Andrew Westoll

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • English

Areas of Expertise

• Animal welfare
• Chimpanzees
• Creative writing
• Exotic pets
• Great apes

Office: 416-825-4103
Website
Email: awestoll@utsc.utoronto.ca
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Dana Seitler

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • English
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of the United States

Areas of Expertise

• Cultural studies of science
• Feminist theory
• LGBTQ
• Nineteenth and early twentieth-century American literature and culture
• Queer theory and sexuality studies
• visual culture

Office: 416-946-3496
Email: d.seitler@utoronto.ca
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David Klausner

Professor Emeritus, Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Science

Professor Emeritus, Centre for Medieval Studies, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • English
  • Medieval Studies
• Centres
  • Centre for Medieval Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Arthurian literature
• Historical pronunciation and phonology
• Medieval studies
• Welsh studies

Office: 416-946-7379
Home: 416-964-1405
Email: david.klausner@utoronto.ca
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Garry Leonard

Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • English

Areas of Expertise

• 20th century literature
• Advertising
• film noir
• Gothic/horror
• Hemingway
• Joyce
• Literature and film studies
• Melodrama
• Pop music
• Rock and roll
• science fiction
• T.S. Eliot
• Westerns
• Woolf
• World cinema

Office: 416-287-7141
Home: 416-577-6846
Email: leonard@utsc.utoronto.ca
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George Elliott Clarke

Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • English

Areas of Expertise

• African-Canadian history/literature
• African-Candian history/literature
• African/American/Canadian Poetry
• Anti-racism initiatives
• Canadian/American/African poetry

Office: 416-946-3143
Website
Email: libretto@chass.utoronto.ca
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Ian Lancashire

Professor Emeritus, Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • English
• Centres
  • Centre for Medieval Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Creativity
• Digital humanities
• English lexicography 1475-1755 (leme.library.utoronto.ca)
• Text analysis and Alzheimer's Disease in authors

Office: 416 938-7829
Home: 416 231-2659
Mobile: 416 938-7829
Website
Email: ian.lancashire@utoronto.ca
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John Baird

Professor Emeritus, Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • English

Areas of Expertise

• Charles Dickens
• English literature of the eighteenth century
• William McGonagall

Office: 416-531-1853
Home: 416-531-1853
Email: john.baird@utoronto.ca
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Karina Vernon

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • English

Areas of Expertise

• Black Canadian literature
• Black history and literature of the Canadian prairies
• Black-Indigenous solidarities
• Canadian multicultural literature
• Critical pedagogy

Office: 416-287-7165
Home: 416-705-1849
Email: karina.vernon@utoronto.ca
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Linda Hutcheon

Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Comparative Literature
  • English
• Centres
  • Centre for Comparative Literature

Areas of Expertise

• Culture and opera
• Late style — creativity and aging
• Opera

Office: 416-978-6616
Home: 416-604-9471
Email: l.hutcheon@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Marlene Goldman

Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
  • U of T Scarborough
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • English

Areas of Expertise

• Age studies
• Contemporary Canadian literature
• Disability studies
• Health Humanities
• Memory studies

Office: 416-528-8456
Email: mgoldman@chass.utoronto.ca
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Michael Cobb

Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • English

Areas of Expertise

• Gay rights and racial equality comparison
• lesbian
• LGBTQ
• Queer rights/politics
• transgendered
• two-spirited

Office: 416-978-8114
Email: michael.cobb@utoronto.ca
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Neil ten Kortenaar

Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Comparative Literature
  • English
• Centres
  • Centre for Comparative Literature

Areas of Expertise

• African literature
• Caribbean literature
• Multicultural literature
• South Asian literature

Office: N/A
Home: 416 461-3795
Languages: French, Spanish, Dutch
Email: neil.kortenaar@utoronto.ca
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Nick Mount

Associate Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • English

Areas of Expertise

• Canadian literature

Office: 416-946-3144
Email: nick.mount@utoronto.ca
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Paul Downes

Associate Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • English

Areas of Expertise

• American literature and politics

Office: 416-978-5044
Home: 416-322-6908
Mobile: 416-938-7759
Email: paul.downes@utoronto.ca
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Robert McGill

Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • English

Areas of Expertise

• Canadian literature
• Creative writing

Office: 416-946-8798
Website
Email: robert.mcgill@utoronto.ca
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Scott Rayter

​Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Sexual Diversity Studies/Dept of English, Faculty of Arts & Science

Associate Director, Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • English
• Centres
  • Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Canadian and American literature
• Sexuality Studies/queer cultures & representation/HIV/AIDS

Office: 416-978-7200
Email: scott.rayter@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Uzoma Esonwanne

Associate Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • English
• Centres
  • Centre for Comparative Literature

Areas of Expertise

• African literature
• Colonial discourse theory
• Literary theory

Office: 416-946-3917
Home: 416-780-0479
Languages: Igbo
Email: uzoma.esonwanne@utoronto.ca
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