Nick Mount

Nick Mount is a nationally recognized student and teacher of Canadian literature. In 2005, Mount’s prize-winning doctoral dissertation became a prize-winning book: When Canadian Literature Moved to New York (UTP, 2005) winner of the Gabrielle Roy Prize for the best book in Canadian literary criticism. His most recent book is Arrival: The Story of CanLit (Anansi, 2017), a Globe & Mail and National Post best book of the year. He regularly gives public talks and interviews on the arts in Canada, with appearances at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, the Arts & Letters Club of Toronto, the Toronto Public Library, and on TVO's The Agenda and CBC Radio’s Sunday Edition. He is currently writing Vandalism: A History of Destruction, the first international history of vandalism.

Professor Mount is a two-time finalist in TVO’s Best Lecturer Competition, a province-wide search for the best lecturer in a post-secondary institution. He has won the Faculty of Arts & Science’s Outstanding Teaching Award (2007), the President’s Teaching Award (2009), and a National Magazine Silver Award (2009). In 2011, he was awarded a 3M National Teaching Fellowship, the country’s highest teaching award.

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