{"id":18114,"date":"2010-10-31T00:29:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T04:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=18114"},"modified":"2010-10-31T00:29:32","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T04:29:32","slug":"an-email-from-neil-ten-kortenaar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/10\/31\/an-email-from-neil-ten-kortenaar\/","title":{"rendered":"An Email from Neil ten Kortenaar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dear Michael Happy,<\/p>\n

You may have heard the good news: the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto will survive.\u00a0 The great outpouring of international support for the Centre in the form of letters and signatures to the on-line petition made the administration think again about their plans to cut the Centre\u2019s degree programs.\u00a0 The Administration has also stepped back from its decision to fold the languages and literature departments into a single School of Languages and Literatures.\u00a0 German, Spanish and Portuguese, Slavic, Italian, and East Asian Studies will all retain their status as independent departments.<\/p>\n

There is not only relief but excitement.\u00a0 One good thing that has come out of the otherwise regrettable crisis is a new spirit of collaboration among the languages and literatures at Toronto.\u00a0 The Centre for Comparative Literature will develop closer links to Victoria College (the part of the university where Northrop Frye had his academic home|) and to the undergraduate program in Literary Studies housed there.\u00a0 This is all to the good.<\/p>\n

I would like to thank you and all the many contributors to the Frye blog for all the support and coverage you have given us through the crisis.\u00a0 Know that it all worked.<\/p>\n

Thank you again.<\/p>\n

Best wishes,<\/p>\n

Neil ten Kortenaar, Director, Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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