Nick Mount

Nick Mount is a nationally recognized student and teacher of Canadian literature. In 2005, Mount’s prize-winning doctoral dissertation became a prize-winning book: When Canadian Literature Moved to New York (UTP, 2005) winner of the Gabrielle Roy Prize for the best book in Canadian literary criticism. His second book, Arrival: The Story of CanLit (Anansi, 2017), was a national bestseller and Globe & Mail and National Post best book of the year. He regularly gives public talks and interviews on the arts in Canada, with appearances at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, the Arts & Letters Club of Toronto, the Toronto Public Library, and on TVO's The Agenda and CBC Radio’s Sunday Edition.

Professor Mount is a two-time finalist in TVO’s Best Lecturer Competition, a province-wide search for the best lecturer in a post-secondary institution. He has won the Faculty of Arts & Science’s Outstanding Teaching Award (2007), the President’s Teaching Award (2009), and a National Magazine Silver Award (2009). In 2011, he was awarded a 3M National Teaching Fellowship, the country’s highest teaching award. 

Mount’s most recent book is Vandals: A History of Destruction from Antiquity to Tomorrow, represented by Jim Levine at Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency,  published in February 2027 by Penguin Random House in Canada and Simon & Schuster internationally.

Office Hours

Wednesdays 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. or by appointment

Publications

Books

Arrival: The Story of Canlit. Toronto: Anansi, Aug. 2017

When Canadian Literature Moved to New York. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. Winner of Gabrielle Roy Prize, 2005. Reprinted in trade paper edition, 2006.

Selected Articles

“Tradition and the Individual Canadian Talent,” Studia Anglica Posnaniensia (Poland) 55s2 (2020)

“This One Goes to Eleven: The Fictional World of André Alexis,” Canadian Notes & Queries 108 (2020-21)

Introduction to Civil Elegies and Other Poems, by Dennis Lee (Anansi, 2012). 

“The Return of Beauty,” Queen’s Quarterly 115.2 (summer 2008)

“On Hugh’s Watch: The Watch That Ends the Night Turns Fifty,” Walrus, July-Aug. 2009

“Waiting for Godot without Existentialism,” Raritan 28.2 (fall 2008)

“In Praise of Talking Dogs: The Study and Teaching of Early Canada’s Canonless Canon.” Essays on Canadian Writing 63 (1998).