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English MA in Literatures of Modernity

Jason Boyd, Graduate Program Director

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Thanks for your interest in the MA in Literatures of Modernity!

The Literatures of Modernity program provides literature-focused professional skill development for academia and beyond. Our innovative courses investigate diverse works from cultural, historical, and global perspectives and, in doing so, illuminate the ideas and social structures of modernity that have shaped and continue to shape our contemporary world.

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Literatures of Modernity

Our one-year MA program provides students with the opportunity to develop professional skills of value in both literary studies and in non-academic careers.

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The English MA at Toronto Metropolitan University provides a high standard of literary education within a flexible program structure.

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News from Literatures of Modernity

May 27, 2024
Awards–Digital Humanities and New Media Writing Prizes
April 15, 2024
2023 Robert Coover Award Honorable Mention
English Department members Monique Tschofen and Kari Maaren, together with The Decameron Collective, an interdisciplinary group of nine scholar-creators from across Canada (Jolene Armstrong, Athabasca U; Kelly Egan, Trent; Lai-Tze Fan, Waterloo; Caitlin Fisher, York U; Angela Joosse, Canadian Research Knowledge Network; Siobhan O’Flynn, University of Toronto; Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Toronto Metropolitan University) win Honorable Mention for the 2023 Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature, an international award given for the best work of electronic literature of any length or genre.
December 18, 2023
Vibrant Materialities Across Media, Literature, and Theory
Monique Tschofen and Lai-Tze Fan (Waterloo)’s co-edited issue of Imaginations: A Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies titled Vibrant Materialities Across Media, Literature, and Theory was published in December of 2023. This issue, which emerged from a working group of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association that Monique and Lai-Tze co-led with Marcello Vitali-Rosati from the University of Montreal, asks about what the centering of materiality can bring to the discipline of Comparative Literature and Comparative Media Studies.
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