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UTSC English is hiring our new Communications & Outreach team for 2020-21!

We at the UTSC English Department are so pleased to welcome our new students, who will be starting their explorations in our A-level courses this fall.The instructors for these courses would like to offer a brief introduction to their classes, and how

Congratulations to Prof. Andrea Charise, who has won the UofT Early Career Teaching Award for her work in Health Humanities.

We are excited to congratulate Téa Mutonji, whose story collection Shut Up You're Pretty, has won the 2020 Trillium Book Award! We're so proud of Téa and her connections to Scarborough and our department.

Join us online in June to celebrate our amazing English, Film, and Creative Writing graduates!

We are proud to announce that the English Department now offers U of T's only Major in Creative Writing!

Prof. Marlene Goldman's adaptation of "Torching the Dusties" has won the Elena Zastawnik Award at the Magnolia Independent Film Festival.

The Department of English at UTSC is delighted to announce the appointment of two new faculty members following our recent TRC-response search in Creative Writing, Indigenous Literatures, and Oral Traditions: Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm and Randy Lundy.

Congratulations to Prof. Andrew DuBois, whose poetry collection All the People are Pregnant is forthcoming with Goose Lane/ice house!

Congratulations to Prof. Daniel Tysdal, whose short film Humanity's Wing (inspired by our very own H-wing) premieres this week at the Oaxaca Film Festival! 

This year, in partnership with the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, The Asian Canadian Living Archive will be piloting the Youth Critics Initiative.

Prof. Marlene Goldman was recently interviewed by CTV News for her expert reaction to the excitement about Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, the newly published sequel to The Handmaid's Tale.

Prof. Vernon's research and her forthcoming book on Black writing in the Canadian prairies are featured in UofT Magazine.

FEEL WAYS is an upcoming anthology led by our own alums (Adrian de Leon, Téa Mutonji, and Natasha Ramoutar) that showcases writing from Scarborough writers on Scarborough.

Congratulations to Maria Assif, whose book, Beyond Five Paragraphs: a Beginner's Guide to Writing Academic Essays, will be published by Oxford University Press. We are so proud of you!

Three students from UTSC were selected to participate in the 2019 convention for Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honor society. This year's convention was held from 27-30 March in St.

Congratulations to Sarah Hilton, Ryanne Kap, and Kit Hornby whom took second place at the LitJam competition at the Harbourfront Centre on March 6th!

Check out the lastest issue of The Underground for a terrific interview by Helen Jingshu Yao with out writer in residence, Carrianne Leung here:

Congratulations to Professor Andrew Westoll and our new Writer in Residence, Carrianne Leung, for making the 2019 Canada Reads longlist!

Professor Katherine Larson, our Department Chair, has been named to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.

Karen Ho, an alumna of the UTSC English Department and currently a journalism student at Columbia University, wrote the August 15 Time magazine feature on the hit movie Crazy Rich Asians.

Prof. Marlene Goldman has received the Barbara Tuck-MacPhee Award from the Canadian National Institute for the Blind.

Congratulations to Marylin Kwan, a UTSC employee in human resources, who has been working toward her degree in English for a decade.

Ashfak Khan, the Business Officer for the English, CFL, and Philosophy departments, was invited to talk about his knowledge and practices in Research Administration at the UofT Annual STAR Conference on 22 February, 2018.

Scarborough Studies was created and hosted by two alumni, Niyosha Keyzad, a course instructor at the English Department, and Felix Chu, working in public policy. https://utsc.utoronto.ca/news-events/our-community/academics-community-m...

Students in the Department of English are invited to consider joining a working group run by Professor Marlene Goldman in conjunction with her new film project, “Torching the Dusties.”

Dr. Marlene Goldman writes and researches how we tell stories of aging and dementia. http://utsc.utoronto.ca/news-events/commons-magazine/aging-and-dementia-...

Andrea Charise is looking to help others understand the aging process in new ways. Her latest project will highlight the experiences of aging among Scarborough residents using a “digital storytelling” format, which has netted a new fellowship. http://ose.utsc.utoronto.ca/ose/story.php?id=9604&sectid=1

This statement is motivated by the recent executive order on immigration issued by the United States government.

Six U of T Scarborough facultym including UTSC English's Professor Sara Saljoughi, are recipients of New Researcher Awards from U of T’s Connaught Fund, which supports some of the most promising researchers and projects across U of T. https://utsc.utoronto.ca/news-events/archived/six-u-t-scarborough-facult...

The Film Studies section of the English Department welcomes new faculty member, Professor Sara Saljoughi. 

World Film Locations: Toronto, edited by Tom Ue, demonstrates the role that Toronto has played in a number of hit films, including X-Men, Spotlight, and Room. https://utsc.utoronto.ca/news-events/archived/toronto-through-camera-lens

UTSC English student Diana Demian recently won the prestigious Jackman Humanities Institute Undergraduate Fellowship for 2013-2014. Six of these $1,000 fellowships are offered every year and provide U of T outstanding undergraduate recipients with the opportunity to produce and present a research paper under the supervision of a faculty research fellow. https://utsc.utoronto.ca/news-events/archived/utsc-jackman-winner-captiv...

Award-winning Canadian novelist Miriam Toews is eager to mentor the next generation of writers as the University of Toronto Scarborough’s inaugural writer-in-residence. https://utsc.utoronto.ca/news-events/archived/acclaimed-canadian-author-...

Seventeen UTSC faculty won New Researcher Awards from the university’s Connaught Fund, including the English Dept's Professor Katherine Larson. The awards are given to assistant professors within the first five years of their appointment at the university, helping them establish a strong research program. https://utsc.utoronto.ca/news-events/archived/utsc-researchers-win-conna...