Department of English

Randy Boyagoda
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Boston University

Office: JOR 1012
Phone: 416-979-5000 ext 4745
E-mail: boyagoda@ryerson.ca

Writer, critic, and scholar Randy Boyagoda’s research interests include modern American fiction, religion and literature, South Asian literature and culture, and American Studies. He teaches courses in American literature and culture, literary non-fiction, and modern literature. He has written for publications including The New York Times Book Review,  Harper’s, The Paris Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, First Things, The Globe and Mail, and The National Post. He also appears regularly on CBC Radio to discuss literature and current affairs. His new novel, Beggar's Feast, has been published to critical acclaim at home and abroad; his first novel, Governor of the Northern Province, was a 2006 nominee for the ScotiaBank Giller Prize. An academic monograph, on the fiction of Salman Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner, was published in 2008. He is currently at work on a SSHRC-supported biography of Richard John Neuhaus, a Catholic priest and prominent American public intellectual, which will be published by Random House (US) in 2014.  Since 2011, he has served as Vice-President of PEN Canada.

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