06/09/2010

PETITION - Save Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto


 

Please sign the petition to save Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto (Canada)

 
 
 
 
 
The University of Toronto has recommended that the Centre for Comparative Literature be “disestablished” as of 2011. The Centre, founded in 1969 by Northrop Frye, is the premier site for the study of comparative literature in Canada, and the home of three past presidents of the Modern Language Association of America (Northrop Frye, Mario Valdés, and Linda Hutcheon). The Centre will no longer be able to admit students to the PhD or MA degrees and it will be reduced to a collaborative, non-degree-granting program in a School for Languages and Literatures. Such a move has grave implications for the role of literature and the humanities in the academy...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

17/07/2010


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