Massey Dialogues – A Dante Theme Park? Satire and Sensibilities in 2021

Speakers

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  Randy Boyagoda
  

  Randy Boyagoda

  Massey Senior Fellow Randy Boyagoda is the author of six books, including the novels Dante’s Indiana, Original Prin, Beggar’s Feast, and Governor of the Northern Province. His work has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize, and named a Globe and Mail Best Book of the year and New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. He is an essayist, book critic, and Professor of English at the University of Toronto and Vice-Dean, Undergraduate, in the Faculty of Arts and Science. He lives in Toronto with his wife and their four daughters.

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  Charlie Foran Senior Fellow and ED of the Writer's Trust of Canada
  

  Charlie Foran

  Senior Fellow and ED of the Writer's Trust of Canada

  Charlie Foran has published eleven books, including five novels. He is a Senior Fellow at Massey College and an adjunct professor in the Dept of English at the University of Toronto. Charlie is also Executive Director of the Writers’ Trust of Canada.

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  Kate Frank Junior Fellow
  

  Kate Frank

  Junior Fellow

  Kate Frank is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Toronto, and a fourth-year Junior Fellow at Massey College. Her research focuses on women’s walking in eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature.