Alan Ackerman

Professor

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
Website
Email: alan.ackerman@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Andrea Most

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • 20th century and contemporary American literature
  • American popular culture and drama
  • Ecocriticism and environmental literature
  • Environmental issues and nature writing
  • Food literature and food issues
  • Jewish literature and culture
  • Local food systems

Office: 416-946-0828
Website
Email: andrea.most@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Andrew Lesk

Sessional Lecturer, English, Faculty of Arts and Science

Areas of Expertise

  • Canadian literature
  • Cultural studies
  • The graphic novel

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

Dana Seitler

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Aesthetics
  • 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
Website
Email: d.seitler@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Garry Leonard

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • 20th century literature
  • Advertising
  • film noir
  • Gothic/horror
  • Hemingway
  • Joyce
  • Literature and film studies
  • Melodrama
  • Other Teaching Fields, Cinema.
  • Pop music
  • Rock and roll
  • Science fiction
  • T.S. Eliot
  • Twentieth Century British and Irish Literature
  • Westerns
  • Woolf
  • World cinema

Office: (416) 287-7141
Website
Email: garry.leonard@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

George Elliott Clarke

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • African-Canadian
  • African-Canadian history/literature
  • African/American/Canadian Poetry
  • Anti-racism initiatives
  • Canadian (poetry)
  • Canadian literature
  • Creative Writing (MA)
  • New World African
  • Postcolonial

Office: 416-946-3143
Website
Email: georgeelliott.clarke@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Irene Morra

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • 19th-21st century (the monarchy in the arts and media, British popular music, British theatre and drama, British opera, British literature)
  • Britishness studies
  • Film and theatre adaptations of literature
  • Modern Drama - especially British and American, verse drama
  • Opera studies
  • Shakespeare on stage, in film, in literature, in music

Office: 416-926-7148
Website
Email: irene.morra@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: Radio, Print/Online

John Baird

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Charles Dickens
  • English literature of the eighteenth century
  • Restoration
  • Restoration and Eighteenth-Century.
  • Richard Watson (1737-1816), tea and literature, politics and poetry, 1660-1720.
  • William McGonagall

Office: 416-531-1853
Home: 416-531-1853
Website
Email: john.baird@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Linda Hutcheon

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

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

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

Marlene Goldman

Professor

Areas of Expertise

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

Office: (416) 923-0756
Website
Email: mgoldman@chass.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Michael Cobb

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • American literature
  • Aspects of Theory
  • Gay rights and racial equality comparison
  • lesbian
  • LGBTQ
  • Queer rights/politics
  • Queer Theory and Literature
  • transgendered
  • two-spirited

Office: 416-978-8114
Website
Email: michael.cobb@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Misha Teramura

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Early modern drama
  • Early modern English literature
  • History of the book
  • Lost plays
  • Manuscript Studies
  • Shakespeare

Office: N/A
Website
Email: m.teramura@utoronto.ca

Neil ten Kortenaar

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

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

Office: N/A
Mobile: 416 461-3795
Languages: French,Spanish - Latin American,Dutch; Flemish
Website
Email: neil.kortenaar@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Nick Mount

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Canadian literature
  • vandalism

Office: 416-946-3144
Website
Email: nick.mount@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Paul Downes

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Deconstructive literary theory
  • Herman Melville
  • Marxist and post-Marxist theories of sovereignty and democracy
  • Political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes
  • Politically-inflected theological texts,
  • Seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth-century American literature

Office: 416-978-5044
Home: 416-322-6908
Mobile: 416-938-7759
Website
Email: paul.downes@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Rijuta Mehta

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Feminist theory
  • Film and Media Studies
  • Postcolonial studies
  • Race and ethnic studies

Office: 416-978-6501
Email: rijuta.mehta@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Sebastian Sobecki

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Authorship and Literary History
  • Late Medieval and Early Modern Literature
  • Law and Politics
  • Palaeography, Archives, and Manuscripts
  • Travel Writing and Global Medieval Literature

Office: N/A
Languages: German,Polish,Dutch; Flemish
Website
Email: sebastian.sobecki@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email

Uzoma Esonwanne

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • African literature
  • Colonial discourse theory
  • Literary theory

Office: 416-946-3917
Home: 416-780-0479
Mobile: 416-780-0479
Languages: Igbo
Website
Email: uzoma.esonwanne@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online