Colin Hill

Associate Professor; Graduate Faculty; Undergraduate Instructor
Maanjiwe nendamowinan Building, Room 5260, 1535 Outer Circle, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6. Jackman Humanities Building, Room 736, 170 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5R 2M8
905-569-4894

Campus

Fields of Study

Areas of Interest

  • Suburban Literature
  • Editorial Theory and Practice
  • Modernist Fiction

Biography

Professor Hill's research focuses primarily on Canadian fiction. He is particularly interested in Canadian modernism, urban and suburban literature, literary archives, modernist aesthetics, and Canadian literary history and editorial practices. He is currently working on a book about urban and suburban space in Canadian fiction.

He has been editor of the University of Toronto Quarterly since 2012.

Publications

Books

Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.

Critical edition of Waste Heritage, by Irene Baird. Canadian Literature Collection 1. Ottawa: U of Ottawa P, 2007.

Articles

"Modernism, Anti-modernism, and Hugh MacLennan’s Novels of the 1930s." Forthcoming in Making Canada New: Editing, Modernism, and New Media, edited by Dean Irvine, Vanessa Lent, and Bart Vautour. University of Toronto Press, 2015.

"Edward McCourt and the Prairie Myth." Journal of Canadian Studies 44.3 (2010): 53-74.

"Generic Experiment and Confusion in Early Canadian Novels of the Great War." Studies in Canadian Literature 34.2 (2009): 58-76.

"Canadian Bookman and the Origins of Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction." Canadian Literature 195(2008):85-101

Forthcoming

Critical edition of Man Should Rejoice, by Hugh MacLennan. Ottawa: U of Ottawa P, 2018.

Education

BA, Concordia University
MA, McGill University
PhD, McGill University