Irene Gammel

“There are very few mosquitoes in Toronto.” — Ernest Hemingway, August 1920. With that dry wit and precision, he captured even the insects. Toronto helped shape the voice that would transform modern literature. 📚

@KirstyDuncanPhD @MLCArchive @sutherlandbooks Kirsty Duncan died today. RIP.

Love “Word On The Street”! Looking forward to being @sutherlandbooks Sunday at 11:00 am to discuss my book, “The Exclusion Effect: How The Sciences Discourage Girls & Women & What To Do About It.” Shortlisted for a 2024 Science Writers and Communicators of Canada book award

RIP Kirsty Duncan

More interested in reseach on #childrensliterature? Then explore this 2010 essay collection, ed.s @MLC_Research & Benjamin Lefebvre, incl themes like #bibliotherapy, #fashion, #Postcolonialism, Anne as a brand or #Canadian icon! 🇨🇦 🔍 opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/… #ICBD #ICBD2024

On this #RemembranceDay, @TMU_English professor Irene Gammel (@MLC_Research) reminds us that remembrance is about highlighting sacrifice and showing empathy. Her research explores how the human cost of war is articulated in writing and art. Read more: bit.ly/3X88Hvn

✍️A century later, we’re returning to where it all began. @MLC_Research and the Hemingway Society invite your abstract for the 2026 Hemingway Conference in Toronto. 📚 📍July 20–25, Chelsea Hotel 🔗 Details & themes: bit.ly/3IImGnp #Hemingway2026 #LiteraryStudies

“There are very few mosquitoes in Toronto.” — Ernest Hemingway, August 1920. With that dry wit and precision, he captured even the insects. Toronto helped shape the voice that would transform modern literature. 📚

“Books and Biscotti” — an evening of poetry 📖, Italian treats 🍪, and powerful stories of migration and identity 🌍. 📚 With @GiannaPatriarca, Antonia Facciponte, and Daniel Scarcello, the literary reading took a poetic look at identity and migration ✨. Grazie! 🙏 @AICWCanada

Is Donald Trump’s planned military parade a patriotic celebration, or an authoritarian ritual? In @ConversationCA, @TorontoMet’s Irene Gammel (@MLC_Research) explores how spectacle, pageantry and power shape political identity. Read more: tinyurl.com/4zb3x9s3 @arts_tmu

This week marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of "The Great Gatsby," written by F. Scott Fitzgerald '17. To celebrate, @PULibrary is hosting a suite of events inspired by the library’s significant Fitzgerald and Gatsby-related holdings. bit.ly/42rDwgu

After Prof David Collinson (@LancasterManage) published a @ConversationUK article about sex abuse scandals, he was invited to be a guest speaker at @MLC_Research @TorontoMet. Great to see his talk went well and students on the other side of the🌎got to benefit from his research!

Talia Kwartler’s article “Suzanne Duchamp’s Readymade Paintings” analyzes Duchamp's unique way of engaging the readymade in her work--with a great link to the Dada work of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. Read more here: bit.ly/41ofPDt. @UCLHoA @_Alex_Goody

A great privilege talking to Toronto Metropolitan University students, for whom my Fashioning The Beatles book is required reading! Thanks for your keen attention, insightful comments and questions #FashioningTheBeatles @TorontoMet @TMUgraduate @MLC_Research @sutherlandbooks

The body grows slowly and steadily, but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour. From that night Rilla Blythe's soul was the soul of a woman in its capacity for suffering, for strength, for endurance. RILLA OF INGLESIDE 🎨 Will Barnet

The House of Guardaboschi, 1912 #artbots #klimt

the first book in fashion book club is slaves to fashion: black dandyism, the book which serves as the foundation of the metropolitan museum of art’s exhibition theme for the costume institute

LM Montgomery Sesquicentennial ! 1874-2024⏳ “It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.” RAINBOW VALLEY

A rare exhibit of 20 quilts handwoven by Canadian women for Blitz survivors is on display Nov. 12 to 15 at @cityoftoronto from @TorontoMet @MLC_Research's collection. Learn more about a unique chapter in Canadian WWII history: bit.ly/3NWpnRV @jasonwtc #RemembranceDay

Autumn Trees ©️ Egon Schiele 1911

©️Marta Zamarska On the Subway 2014