Richard Greene

Professor; Graduate Faculty; Undergraduate Instructor; Senior Fellow, Massey College
Maanjiwe nendamowinan Building, Room 5256, 1535 Outer Circle, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6. Jackman Humanities Building, Room 914, 170 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5R 2M8
richard.greene@utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Mississauga (UTM)

Fields of Study

  • Creative Writing (MA)
  • Poetry and Poetics
  • Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature

Areas of Interest

  • Canadian Poetry 

Publications

Russian Roulette: The Life and Times of Graham Greene. London: Little, Brown UK, 2020; published in North America as The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene. New York: W. W. Norton, 2021.

Dante's House. Signal Editions, 2013.

Edith Sitwell: Avant Garde Poet, English Genius. London: Virago, 2011.

Boxing the Compass. Montreal: Signal Editions, 2009.

Ed. Graham Greene: A Life in Letters. London: Little, Brown, 2007; Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2007; New York: W. W. Norton, 2008.

Crossing the Straits. Toronto: St Thomas, 2004.

Co-ed. The Works of Mary Leapor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Ed. Selected Letters of Edith Sitwell. London: Virago, 1997; rev. ed. 1998.

Republic of Solitude: Poems 1984-1994. St. John’s: Breakwater, 1994.

Mary Leapor: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Women's Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Honours

2022: Shortlisted for Edgar (prize of Mystery Writers of America) for best biographical or critical work.
2019 National Magazine Award (Honorable Mention) in poetry category
2015 National Magazine Award (Gold) in poetry category
2014 National Magazine Award  (Honorable Mention) in poetry category.
2012 Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
2010 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry

Education

Hons. BA, Memorial University of Newfoundland
D.Phil, University of Oxford