Agatha Christie likely suffered from Alzheimer’s
Research by U of T professors Ian Lancashire and Graeme Hirst has garnered top spot in the N.Y. Times’ 9th Annual Year in Ideas. Lancashire, a professor of English, and Hirst, a computer scientist, provide evidence that famed mystery novelist Agatha Christie suffered from Alzheimer’s-related dementia during the final years of her life. It’s a [...]
English professor Nick Mount comments
Linden MacIntyre’s novel The Bishop’s Man just won the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize, which honours excellence in Canadian fiction. But what makes his novel “Canadian?” We asked Professor Nick Mount of U of T’s Department of English to comment. A specialist in Canadian literature and cultural history, Professor Mount is the author of When Canadian [...]
Ian Lancashire’s online poetry archive is winning global acclaim
For Ian Lancashire, taking a break means finding another poem for Representative Poetry Online (RPO). The world’s most extensive electronic anthology of English poetry is Lancashire’s labour of love — a project the English professor conceived and maintains on a volunteer basis through the U of T library, and a resource for poetry-seekers worldwide. continue
