Robert Mcgill
Associate Professor
Department of English
University of Toronto
Canada
Biography
He is working as Associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is working as Associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto, Canada.
Research Interest
Robert McGill’s research focuses on Canadian literature and on issues related to creative writing. His book War Is Here: The Vietnam War and Canadian Literature (autumn 2017) examines the war’s influence on Canadian identity. It follows his novel Once We Had a Country, which tells the story of Americans in Canada during the war era. His first novel, The Mysteries, was named one of the top five Canadian fiction books of the year by Quill & Quire. Robert has published short fiction in Hazlitt, Toronto Life, The Journey Prize Anthology, Grain, The Dalhousie Review, The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly, and Descant. He is also the author of The Treacherous Imagination: Intimacy, Ethics, and Autobiographical Fiction, which addresses people’s sense of betrayal when they believe they have been turned into characters in novels or stories. He is currently working on new fiction, as well as articles about diversity and authority in Creative Writing pedagogy.
