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Active on the UofT campus for almost 50 years, the Toronto Eighteenth-Century Group (TECG) promotes interdisciplinary knowledge of long eighteenth-century literature and culture by inviting visiting scholars, local faculty, and graduate students to present their research in a collegial environment. Membership is open to faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars from across the GTA. Visitors are always welcome.
We hope you will join us!

Toronto Eighteenth-Century Group Events | 2025-2026

Information forthcoming . . .

Affiliated Speaker Series Events

Thursday, March 12, 2026 | 4:30 pm | Jackman Humanities Building, Rm 616
~ The 2026 Vincent A. De Luca Lecture, Department of English, UofT ~
“Title TBD”
Essaka Joshua, Professor of English, University of Notre Dame
Essaka Joshua, PhD, FSA, specializes in the literary and cultural perceptions of disability of the Romantic and Victorian periods. Joshua is the author of three monographs: Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2020), The Romantics and the May Day Tradition (Ashgate, 2007), and Pygmalion and Galatea: The History of a Narrative in English Literature (Ashgate, 2001). Professor Joshua is currently working on a monograph on disability in Romantic Theatre and is the general editor of the four-volume series, The Oxford Handbooks of Disability and Literatures in English.

Graduate Student Reading Group
Local graduate students in eighteenth-century studies have formed a reading group,
which meets before each TECG talk to discuss a reading recommended by the speaker.
New members are always welcome!
For more information, please contact: Philip Trotter