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Department of English

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March 21, 2025 English scholar pens sonnets to celebrate 17th-century Dutch art

November 27, 2024 ‘Tree Stories' course connects U of T students to nature, history – and themselves

December 10, 2021 ‘Write the stories you want to read’: SJ Sindu, author of Blue-Skinned Gods

Randy Boyagoda

September 20, 2021 U of T's Randy Boyagoda discusses his new novel, inspired by Dante and set in small-town Indiana

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March 1, 2019 Basketball, charity, family: Raptors President Masai Ujiri speaks at U of T's Black History Luncheon

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December 21, 2018 Video games deconstructed: U of T English course takes a critical look at game narratives, designs

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December 7, 2018 Ottawa honours U of T literary theorist Northrop Frye with commemorative plaque

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April 25, 2018 'Is this Toronto?' U of T professor asks in New York Times after van attack

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March 29, 2018 700 years of the Passover haggada

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January 3, 2018 U of T alumna Erin Shields’s adaptation of Paradise Lost to première at Stratford Festival

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December 15, 2017 U of T's Randy Boyagoda's idiosyncratic survey of great Canadian reads

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September 18, 2017 Health humanities: The U of T expert behind the multidisciplinary program

Apala Das and Northrop Frye statue

September 8, 2017 Inspired by Northrop Frye, new student travels halfway around world to study at U of T