Biography

University of Toronto St. George Campus - English

Degrees
B.A. (Manitoba), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto), FRSC

Lynne Magnusson is a Professor of English at the University of Toronto, where she has served as Graduate Director and Associate Chair (2014-17) and as Director of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (2010-2014). Immediately prior to her appointment at Toronto in 2003, she was Professor of English at Queen’s University, Kingston (2000-2003), and she spent much of her early career at the University of Waterloo (1984-1999). There, she co-directed the biennial International Elizabethan Theatre Conferences, contributed to the development of innovative graduate programs in rhetoric and discourse analysis, and served both as Acting Chair and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies. Her first full-time appointment was as a CLTA in English at Toronto (1981-84). Over the years, she has held Visiting Fellowships at All Souls College, Oxford and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

The impact of her research in early modern studies has been recognized by her election in 2014 as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the award in 2008-9 of the prestigious Killam Research Fellowship, and SSHRC fellowships throughout her career. She has served as an elected Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America, on the editorial board of Shakespeare Quarterly, and as co-General Editor of two book series at The Arden Shakespeare. She has twice directed programs at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, and, in 2015, delivered the annual Shakespeare Birthday Lecture. She takes great delight in the accomplishments of the many talented students, graduate and undergraduate, she has had the opportunity to teach and to supervise.