DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND DRAMA

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MISSISSAUGA

FALL/WINTER SESSION 2007-2008

POSTING DATE: February 14, 2007

CLOSING DATE: March 16, 2007

The following Sessional Lecturer positions are available in the Department of English and Drama at the University of Toronto Mississauga for the 2007-2008 Fall/Winter session.

This is a regular posting in accordance with the Collective Agreement between the Governing Council of the University of Toronto and CUPE 3902 (Unit 3). As required by the agreement, this posting is being emailed to all those in the Department’s Applicant Pool, which consists of all Sessional Lecturers who are teaching for the UTM Department during the current academic year or who have taught for the Department since 1 September 2004 and anyone who has submitted an application and CV within the past twelve months. Applications from others are also welcome. Anyone wishing to be considered for a particular position must submit the attached Application Form as well as a current CV. E-submissions are preferred and should be sent to Professor Leslie Thomson, Chair, Department of English and Drama c/o edassist@utm.utoronto.ca; (by regular mail: University of Toronto at Mississauga, North Building, Room 227, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6).

Salary: in accordance with the current CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement, the Sessional Lecturer I rate of pay will be $11,500 for a Full (Y) course and $5,750 for a Half (F/S) course. The Sessional Lecturer II rate of pay will be $12,500 for a Full (Y) course and $6,250 for a Half (F/S) course. All pay rates are inclusive of vacation pay.

Sessional Dates (including Exam periods): 1 Sept. 2007 – 30 Apr. 2008 for Y courses; 1 Sept. – 31 Dec. 2007 for F courses; 1 Jan. – 30 Apr 2008 for S courses.

Note: Sessional positions involve completion of any course grading remaining incomplete at the end of the academic session.Posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENG110Y5Y: Narrative

This course explores the stories that are all around us and that shape our world: traditional literary narratives such as ballads, romances, and novels, and also non-literary forms of narrative, such as journalism, movies, myths, jokes, legal judgments, travel writing, histories, songs, diaries, biographies.

Class Schedule: Section/Day/Time:

Section L0101: MWF: 9-10

Section L0201: MWF: 9-10

Section L0401: MWF: 12-1

Section L0501: TR: 3-5/3-4

Section L6001: T: 6-9

Estimated Enrolment: 50 each section

Estimated TA Hours: 170 each section

Duties: All normal duties related to the design and teaching of a university credit course, including preparation and delivery of course content; development, admin. and marking of assignments, tests and exams; calculation and submission of grades; holding regular office hours; supervising TAs assigned to course. In addition, instructors are expected to participate in the department’s First-Year Writing Initiative.

Qualifications: PhD preferred, in English with specialization in narrative forms, including modern fiction; strong academic record and professional promise.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENG140Y5Y: Literature for Our Time

An exploration of how the literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries responds to our worlds through major forms of poetry, prose, and drama in texts drawn from a variety of national literatures. At least nine authors, such as Eliot, Frost, Heaney, Page, Plath, Rich, Wayman, Walcott, Yeats, Faulkner, Gordimer, Joyce, Morrison, Munro, Naipaul, Rushdie, Woolf, Beckett, Highway, O’Neill, Shaw, Soyinka, Stoppard.

Class Schedule: Section/Day/Time:

Section L0101: MWF: 9-10

Section L0201: MWF: 9-10

Section L0301: MWF: 1-2

Section L0401: MWF: 4-5

Section L0501: TR: 11-2/11-1

Section L6001: M: 6-9

Estimated Enrolment: 50 each section

Estimated TA Hours: 170 each section

Duties: as above

Qualifications: PhD preferred, in English with specialization in 20th – and 21st –century literature; strong academic record and professional promise.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENG201Y5Y: Reading Poetry

An introduction to poetry through a close reading of texts, focusing on its traditional forms, themes, techniques, and uses of language; its historical and geographical range; and its twentieth-century diversity.

Class Schedule: Section/Day/Time:

Section L0101: MWF: 10-11

Section L0201: TR: 12-2/12-1

Estimated Enrolment: 50 each section

Estimated TA Hours: 0

Duties: as above

Qualifications: PhD preferred, in English with specialization in poetry; strong academic record and professional promise.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENG202Y5Y: British Literature: Medieval to Romantic

An introduction to influential texts that have shaped the British literary heritage, covering approximately twelve writers of poetry, drama, and prose, from Chaucer to Keats, with attention to such questions as the development of the theatre, the growth of the novel form, and the emergence of women writers.

Class Schedule: Section/Day/Time:

Section L0101: MWF: 10-11

Section L0201: TR: 10-12/10-11

Estimated Enrolment: 75 each section

Estimated TA Hours: 170 each section

Duties: as above

Qualifications: PhD preferred, in English with specialization and/or teaching experience in more than one major period of English literature; strong academic record and professional promise.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENG205H5S: Rhetoric

An introduction to the rhetorical tradition from classical times to the present with a focus on prose as strategic persuasion. Besides rhetorical terminology, topics may include the discovery and arrangement of arguments, validity in argumentation, elements of style, and rhetorical criticism and theory.

Class Schedule: Section/Day/Time:

Section L0101: MWF: 11-12

Estimated Enrolment: 50

Estimated TA Hours: 0

Duties: as above

Qualifications: PhD preferred, in English with specialization and/or experience teaching rhetoric; strong academic record and professional promise.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENG215H5F: The Canadian Short Story

An introduction to the Canadian short story, this course emphasizes its rich variety of settings, subjects, and styles.

Class Schedule: Section/Day/Time:

Section L6001: W: 6-9

Estimated Enrolment: 75

Estimated TA Hours: 100

Duties: as above

Qualifications: PhD preferred, in English with specialization in Canadian literature; strong academic record and professional promise.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENG220Y5Y: Shakespeare

About twelve plays by Shakespeare representing the different periods of his career and the different genres he worked in (comedy, history, tragedy). Such plays as Romeo and Juliet; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Richard II; Henry IV, parts I and II; As You Like It; Twelfth Night; Measure for Measure; Hamlet; King Lear; Antony and Cleopatra; The Tempest. Non-dramatic poetry may be added.

Class Schedule: Section/Day/Time:

Section L0201: TR: 10-12/10-11

Estimated Enrolment: 75

Estimated TA Hours: 170

Duties: as above

Qualifications: PhD preferred, in English with specialization in early modern drama; strong academic record and professional promise.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENG234H5F: Childrens Literature

A critical and historical study of poetry and fiction written for or appropriated by children, this course may also include drama or non-fiction and will cover works by at least twelve authors such as Bunyan, Stevenson, Carroll, Twain, Alcott, Nesbit, Montgomery, Milne, Norton, and Fitzhugh.

Class Schedule: Section/Day/Time:

Section L0101: MWF: 12-1

Estimated Enrolment: 100

Estimated TA Hours: 140

Duties: as above

Qualifications: PhD preferred, in English with specialization and/or teaching experience in children’s literature; strong academic record and professional promise.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENG236H5S: Detective Fiction

At least 12 works by such authors as Poe, Dickens, Collins, Doyle, Chesterton, Christie, Sayers, Van Dine, Hammett, Chandler, Faulkner, P.D. James, Rendell.

Class Schedule: Section/Day/Time:

Section L0101: MWF: 12-1

Estimated Enrolment: 100

Estimated TA Hours: 140

Duties: as above

Qualifications: PhD preferred, in English with specialization and/or teaching experience in genre fiction/ detective fiction; strong academic record and professional promise.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENG239H5S: Fantasy and Horror

This course explores speculative fiction of the fantastic, the magical, the supernatural, and the horrific. Subgenres may include alternative histories, animal fantasy, epic fantasy, the Gothic, fairy tales, magic realism, sword and sorcery, and vampire fiction.

Class Schedule: Section/Day/Time:

Section L6001: W: 6-9

Estimated Enrolment: 75

Estimated TA Hours: 100

Duties: as above

Qualfications: PhD preferred, in English with specialization and/or teaching experience in genre/fantasy/horror fiction; strong academic record and professional promise.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENG250Y5Y: American Literature

An introductory survey of major works in American literature, this course explores works in a variety of genres, including poetry, fiction, essays, and slave narratives.

Class Schedule: Section/Day/Time:

Section L0101: MWF: 2-3

Estimated Enrolment: 75

Estimated TA Hours: 170

Duties: as above

Qualifications: PhD preferred, in English with specialization in American literature; strong academic record and professional promise.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENG252Y5Y: Canadian Literature

An introductory survey of major Canadian works in poetry, prose, and drama from early to recent times.

Class Schedule: Section/Day/Time:

Section L0101: TR: 1-3/1-2

Estimated Enrolment: 75

Estimated TA Hours: 170

Duties: as above

Qualifications: PhD preferred, in English with specialization in Canadian literature; strong academic record and professional promise.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENG270Y5Y: Colonial and Postcolonial Writing

In this course we study literary and non-literary texts from the nineteenth century to the present day. Colonial texts are analysed alongside postcolonial interpretations of the nineteenth-century archive, giving students a grasp of colonial discourse and contemporary postcolonial analyses.

Class Schedule: Section/Day/Time:

Section L6001: T: 6-9

Estimated Enrolment: 75

Estimated TA Hours: 170

Duties: as above

Qualifications: PhD preferred, in English with specialization in colonial and postcolonial writing; strong academic record and professional promise.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENG271H5F: Diasporic Literatures of Toronto

Toronto is one of the world’s most diverse and multicultural cities. This course is a study of literature by writers with strong connections to Toronto who explore issues such as identity, nationality, place, origin, and the multicultural experience. Writers may include: Judy Fong Bates, Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke, Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, Rohinton Mistry, Michael Ondaatje, M. Nourbese Philip, Shyam Selvadurai, M.G. Vassanji.

Class Schedule: Section/Day/Time:

Section L0101: TR: 3-5/3-4

Estimated Enrolment: 75

Estimated TA Hours: 100

Duties: as above

Qualifications: PhD preferred, in English with specialization in and/or teaching experience in diasporic writing; strong academic record and professional promise.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENG300Y5Y: Chaucer

The foundation of English literature: in their uncensored richness and range, Chaucer’s works have delighted wide audiences for over 600 years. Includes The Canterbury Tales, with its variety of narrative genres from the humorous and bawdy to the religious and philosophical, and Troilus and Criseyde, a profound erotic masterpiece.

Class Schedule: Section/Day/Time:

Section L0101: MWF: 10-11

Estimated Enrolment: 50

Estimated TA Hours: 0

Duties: as above

Qualifications: PhD in English preferred, with specialization in medieval literature and Chaucer; demonstrated excellence in teaching.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENG306Y5Y: Poetry and Prose 1660-1800

Writers of this period grapple with questions of authority and individualism, tradition and innovation, in politics, religion, knowledge, society, and literature itself. Special attention to Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, and at least six other authors.

Class Schedule: Section/Day/Time:

Section L6001: W: 6-9

Estimated Enrolment: 50

Estimated TA Hours: 0

Duties: as above

Qualifications: PhD preferred, in English with specialization in Restoration/18th-century literature; strong academic record and professional promise.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENG324Y5Y: Fiction 1832-1900

Exploring the social and political dilemmas of a culture in transition, this course studies such topics as the comic art of Dickens, Trollope, and Thackeray, the Gothicism of the Brontës, the crisis of religious faith in George Eliot, and the powerful moral fables of Hardy. Students will read 10 to 12 novels.

Class Schedule: Section/Day/Time:

Section L0101: MWF: 11-12

Estimated Enrolment: 75

Estimated TA Hours: 170

Duties: as above

Qualifications: PhD preferred, in English with specialization in Victorian literature; strong academic record and professional promise.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENG329H5F: Contemporary British Fiction

This course explores six or more works by at least four British contemporary writers of fiction.

Class Schedule: Section/Day/Time:

Section L6001: M: 6-9

Estimated Enrolment: 50

Estimated TA Hours: 0

Duties: as above

Qualifications: PhD preferred, in English with specialization in modern/ contemporary British fiction; strong academic record and professional promise.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENG354Y5Y: Canadian Poetry

A study of major Canadian poets, modern and contemporary.

Class Schedule: Section/Day/Time:

Section L0101: MWF: 2-3

Estimated Enrolment: 50

Estimated TA Hours: 0

Duties: as above

Qualifications: PhD preferred, in English with specialization in Canadian poetry; strong academic record and professional promise.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENG364Y5Y: 20th-Century American Literature

This course explores twentieth-century American writing in a variety of genres.

Class Schedule: Section/Day/Time:

Section L0101: MWF: 10-11

Estimated Enrolment: 75

Estimated TA Hours: 170

Duties: as above

Qualifications: PhD preferred, in English with specialization in 20th-century American literature; strong academic record and professional promise.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENG380H5S: History of Literary Theory

Literary theory from classical times to the nineteenth century. Topics include theories of the imagination, genre analysis, aesthetics, the relations between literature and reality and literature and society, and the evaluation and interpretation of literature.

Class Schedule: Section/Day/Time:

Section L6001: M: 6-9

Estimated Enrolment: 50

Estimated TA Hours: 0

Duties: as above

Qualifications: PhD preferred, in English with specialization in the history of literary theory; strong academic record and professional promise.