Terry F. Robinson is Associate Professor of English and Drama at the University of Toronto and the recipient of the 2024 Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (NCSA) Article Prize for “Deaf Education and the Rise of English Melodrama,” Essays in Romanticism 29.1 (April 2022): 1-31—an article that also won the 2023 James L. Clifford Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS).

Maria Hupfield, an assistant professor in U of T Mississauga's department of English and Drama, has received a 2025 Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship from the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indiana.

Given every other year, the fellowship aims to bring Indigenous contemporary art to the forefront and cast a spotlight on the works of leading Indigenous artists from across the U.S. and Canada.

University of Toronto Mississauga students can learn about medical uses for robots, consider solutions to the housing crisis, communicate using emoji and more in courses offered for first time this academic school year.  Plus, a new co-op internship program has launched for students enrolled in several programs.

Here are some of the cool new offerings for the 2024-25 school year. 

You’re warmly invited to a new series which will take place starting this fall on the UTM campus.

UTM alum’s career advocating for youth experiencing homelessness is a testament to her resilience, determination and the power of storytelling.

What is the relationship between technology and human cognition? How have writing and language been deployed as technologies throughout human history? And what does the future of computers hold—will it give rise to a new kind of cognitive technology?

In the Department of English & Drama at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM), there is a program that focuses on the creation of stories. The creative writing program is designed for students to focus on expressing themselves through literature or drama in a creative way.