Office of the Chair

Department of Humanities

University of Toronto Scarborough

CUPE 3902 Unit 3

POSITIONS IN ENGLISH

Fall/Winter 2007-2008

POSTING DATE: Wednesday, April 18, 2007

CLOSING DATE: Wednesday, May 16, 2007

The following position(s) for a Sessional Lecturer is (are) available in the Department of Humanities, English discipline for the Fall/Winter 2007-08 academic session. This is a regular posting in accordance with the Collective Agreement between the Governing Council of the University of Toronto and the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 3902 (Unit 3). In accordance with the Collective Agreement, this posting is being sent as an email notification to all applicants in the Department's Applicant Pool: all Sessional Lecturers who are teaching for the Department during the current academic year or who have taught for the Department since September 1, 2005 and all persons who have submitted an application within the past twelve months. All pool members who wish to be considered for a particular position must submit an application and updated curriculum vitae to Professor William R. Bowen, Chair at the Department of Humanities, University of Toronto Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, ON, M1C 1A4. Applications may be faxed to (416)287-7116 or sent by e-mail to humanities-application@utsc.utoronto.ca

Salary: in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement, the Sessional Lecturer I rate of pay will be $6,275 for a half course (Y, F or S) inclusive of vacation pay. The Sessional Lecturer II rate of pay will be $6,775 for a half course (Y, F or S) inclusive of vacation pay.

Appointment Dates: F courses: September 1 - December 31, 2007; S courses: January 1 - April 30, 2008

Sessional Dates (including exam periods): F courses: September 10 - December 21, 2007; S courses: January 7 - May 2, 2008

Note: all positions involve completion of any course grading not finished by December 31, 2007 for F courses; April 30, 2008 for S courses.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENGB05H3, Critical Writing about Literature

Intensive training in critical writing about literature. Essay-writing skills (organization and argumentation; tone and voice; bibliographic style) for the study of English at the university level through group workshops and weekly writing assignments that culminate in two term papers.

Section:

Fall 2007: L02

Winter 2008: L04

Time: TU/TH 3-4:30 (Fall); MO 7-10 (Winter)

Estimated Enrolment: 25 each

Estimated T.A. Hours: 0

Duties: All normal duties related to the design and teaching of a university credit course, including preparation and delivery of course content; development, administration and marking of assignments and final portfolios; calculation and submission of grades; holding regular office hours.

Qualifications: Advanced research in English literature. Experience in teaching critical writing. Strong academic record, professional promise, and ongoing research and publications would be an asset.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENGB17H3S, Contemporary Literature from the Caribbean

A study of fiction, drama and poetry from the West Indies. The course will examine the relation of standard English to the spoken language; the problem of narrating a history of slavery and colonialism; the issues of race, gender, and nation; and the task of making West Indian literary forms.

Section: L01

Time: FR 10-1

Estimated Enrolment: 86

Estimated T.A. Hours: Up to 71 hours

Duties: As above

Qualifications: PhD in English; strong academic record and professional promise; ongoing research and publication, experience in teaching

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENGB19H3F, Contemporary Literature from South Asia

A study of literature in English from South Asia, with emphasis on fiction from India. The course will examine the relation of English-language writing to indigenous South Asian traditions, the problem of narrating a history of colonialism and Partition, and the task of making the novel South Asian.

Section: L01

Time: TU/TH 1:30-3

Estimated Enrolment: 86

Estimated T.A. Hours: Up to 71 hours

Duties: As above

Qualifications: PhD in English; strong academic record and professional promise; ongoing research and publication, experience in teaching.

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ENGB25H3F, The Canadian Short Story

A study of the Canadian short story. The Canadian short story has been vital to the Canadian literary tradition and has produced writers of international stature, including Munro, Atwood, Laurence, and Gallant.

Section: L01

Time: TU 12-1, TH 12-2

Estimated Enrolment: 86

Estimated T.A. Hours: Up to 71 hours

Duties: As above

Qualifications: PhD in English; strong academic record, professional promise; ongoing research and publications, experience in teaching.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENGB35H3F, Children's Literature

An introduction to children's literature. This course will locate children's literature within the history of social attitudes to children and in terms of such topics as authorial creativity, race, gender, and nationhood.

Section: L30

Time: WE 7-9

Estimated Enrolment: 175

Estimated T.A. Hours: Up to 220 hours

Duties: As above

Qualifications: PhD in English literature; strong academic record and professional promise; ongoing research and publication; experience in teaching.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENGB41H3S, Science Fiction

An examination of the genre of science fiction. This course will look at different forms of this genre (novels, short stories, and films), emphasizing the way a popular genre comes into being, the effect on the form of innovation, and the interaction that exists between science fiction and literary writing.

Section: L01

Time: TU/TH 9-10:30

Estimated Enrolment: 86

Estimated T.A. Hours: Up to 71 hours

Duties: As above

Qualifications: PhD in English, strong academic record, professional promise; ongoing research and publications; experience teaching.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENGB50H3F, Women and Literature: Forging a Tradition

An examination of the development of a women's tradition of writing. This course considers the legacy and impact of writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and Virginia Woolf.

Section: L01

Time: TU/TH 9-10:30

Estimated Enrolment: 86

Estimated T.A. Hours: Up to 71 hours

Duties: As above

Qualifications: PhD in English, strong academic record, professional promise; ongoing research and publications; experience teaching.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENGB51H3S, Gender and Genre

An analysis of the role of gender in fiction, poetry, and drama. This course will examine such things as the genres women have gravitated toward and excelled at in the light of Woolf's claim that the novel was the genre most accessible to women because it was not entirely formed.

Section: L01

Time: TU 7-10

Estimated Enrolment: 86

Estimate T.A. Hours: Up to 71 hours

Duties: As above

Qualifications: PhD in English, strong academic record, professional promise; ongoing research and publications; experience teaching.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENGB60H3S, Creative Writing: Poetry

An introduction to the writing of poetry. This course will provide an introduction to the writing of poetry through workshop sessions. Admission by portfolio. Portfolios for students seeking admission should be left with the Humanities departmental assistant in H525A no later than the first Monday of October. They should contain a selected sample (5-15 pp.) of your strongest writing, which could include fiction, poems, or essays. Do not include originals.

Section: L01

Time: TH 7-10

Estimated Enrolment: 20

Estimated T.A. Hours: 0

Duties: As above

Qualifications: Publication as a poet. Experience teaching would be a strong asset.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENGC21H3F, The Victorian Novel to 1860

A study of major works of Victorian fiction, 1830-1860. This course focuses on the development of the realist novel in its social context. Authors studied might include Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, the Bronte sisters, Anthony Trollope,and Elizabeth Gaskell. Pre-1900 course.

Section: L01

Time: TU/TH 1:30-3

**Estimated Enrolment: 50

Estimated T.A. Hours: 0

Duties: As above

Qualifications: PhD in English, strong academic record and professional promise; ongoing research and publication; experience teaching.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENGC29H3F, Chaucer

Selections from The Canterbury Tales and other works by the greatest English writer before Shakespeare. In studying Chaucer's medieval masterpiece, students will encounter a variety of tales and tellers, with subject matter that ranges from broad and bawdy humour through subtle social satire to moral fable. Pre-1900 course.

Section: L01

Time: M/W 9-10:30

Estimated Enrolment: 50

Estimated T.A. Hours: 0

Duties: As above

Qualifications: PhD in English, strong academic record and professional promise; ongoing research and publication; experience teaching.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENGC30H3S, Topics in Medieval Literature

A study of selected medieval texts by one or more authors. Pre-1900 course.

Section: L01

Time: MO/WE 10:30-12

Estimated Enrolment: 50

Estimated T.A. Hours: 0

Duties: As above

Qualifications: PhD in English; strong academic record and professional promise; ongoing research and publication; experience teaching.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENGC37H3S, Literature and Culture 1750-1830

An exploration of literature and literary culture during the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of nineteenth centuries. We will trace the development of a consciously national culture, and birth of the concepts of high, middle, and low cultures. Authors may include Johnson, Boswell, Burney, Sheridan, Yearsley, Blake, and Wordsworth. Pre-1900 course.

Section: L01

Time: MO/WE 9-10:30

Estimated Enrolment: 50

Estimated T.A. Hours: 0

Duties: As above

Qualifications: PhD in English, strong academic record and professional promise; ongoing research and publication; experience teaching.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENGC49H3F, The American Renaissance

Study of the works of the remarkable literary efflorescence in the U.S. running from the publication of Emerson's "Nature" in 1836 to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1860. Authors to be considered include Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Melville, Hawthorne, Dickinson, Stowe, Douglass, and Lincoln. Pre-1900 course.

Section: L01

Time: TU 6-10

Estimated Enrolment: 50

Estimated T.A. Hours: 0

Duties: As above

Qualifications: PhD in English; strong academic record and professional promise; ongoing research and publication; experience teaching.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENGC74H3S, Comedy, Satire, and Humour, 1660-1830

A study of literary works meant to provoke laughter, ridicule, or amusement. We will examine works emerging from a culture that had yet to equate forms that induced laughter with levity and therefore seriously played in the no man's land between pain and horror and pleasure and delight. Pre-1900 course.

Section: L30

Time: MO 7-10

Estimated Enrolment: 50

Estimated T.A. Hours: 0

Duties: As above

Qualifications: PhD in English, strong academic record and professional promise; ongoing research and publication; experience teaching.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENGC78H3F, Dystopian Visions in Fiction and Film

Negative utopias and post-apocalyptic worlds. The course will draw from novels such as 1984, Brave New World, Clockwork Orange and Oryx and Crake, and films such as Metropolis, Mad Max, Brazil and The Matrix. Why do we find these stories about the world gone wrong so compelling?

Section: L01

Time: TU/TH 3-4:30

Estimated Enrolment: 50

Estimated T.A. Hours: 0

Duties: As above

Qualifications: PhD in English, strong academic record and professional promise; ongoing research and publication; experience teaching.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENGC80H3S, Modernity: Modernism and Literature 1900-1950

The aesthetic movements (Dadaism, Futurism, Vorticism, surrealism) that gave rise to modernity and the modernist literary movements that followed.

Section: L01

Time: MO/WE 3-4:30

Estimated Enrolment: 50

Estimated T.A. Hours: 0

Duties: As above

Qualifications: PhD in English, strong academic record and professional promise; ongoing research and publication; experience teaching.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENGC82H3S, Cinema Studies: Themes and Theories

A variable theme course that will feature different theoretical approaches to Cinema: feminist, Marxist, psychoanalytic, postcolonial, and semiotic. Thematic clusters include "Madness in Cinema", and "Films on Films".

Section: L01

Time: FR 11-2, FR 10-11 (film screening)

Estimated Enrolment: 50

Estimated T.A. Hours: 0

Duties: As above

Qualifications: PhD in English, strong academic record and professional promise; ongoing research and publication; experience teaching.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENGD81H3F, Myth and Canadian Fiction

An examination of Canadian writing in the context provided by myth. The course will examine the significance of myths studied in ENGC61H for work by such Canadian writers as MacLennan, Watson, Laurence, Ondaatje, Bringhurst, and King.

Section: L30

Time: TU 7-9

Estimated Enrolment: 22

Estimated T.A. Hours: 0

Duties: As above

Qualifications: PhD in English, strong academic record and professional promise; ongoing research and publication; experience teaching.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENGD84H3F, Canadian Writing for the New Century

An analysis of features of Canadian writing at the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century. This course will consider such topics as changing themes and sensibilities, canonical challenges, and millenial and apocalypic themes associated with the end of the twentieth century.

Section: L01

Time: FR 12-2

Estimated Enrolment: 22

Estimated T.A. Hours: 0

Duties: As above

Qualifications: PhD in English, strong academic record and professional promise; ongoing research and publication; experience teaching.

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Course Number/Title/Description: ENGD89H3F, Studies in the Victorian Period

Topics vary from year to year and might include Victorian children's literature; city and country in Victorian literature; science and nature in Victorian writing; aestheticism and decadence; or Tennyson and Browning. Pre-1900 course.

Section: L30

Time: TU 5-7

Estimated Enrolment: 22

Estimated T.A. Hours: 0

Duties: As above

Qualifications: PhD in English, strong academic record and professional promise; ongoing research and publication; experience teaching.

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The job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement.