John W Lennox
Professor Emeritus
Office: Founders College, 126A
Phone: (416) 736-2100 Ext: 20245
Email: jlennox@yorku.ca
John Lennox was Acting Dean and then Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies from July 1, 1999 to June 30, 2005, and held the post of Associate Vice-President Graduate from May 2004 to June 2005. He was Academic Convenor of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences that was held at York University May 27-June 3, 2006.
He is co-author, with Clara Thomas, of William Arthur Deacon: A Canadian Literary Life (1982) and co-editor, with Michele Lacombe, of Dear Bill: The Correspondence of William Arthur Deacon (1988). He is editor of Margaret Laurence-Al Purdy: A Friendship in Letters (1993) and co-editor, with Janet Paterson, of Challenges, Projects, Texts: Canadian Editing/Défis, projets et textes dans l'edition critique au Canada (1993). He and Ruth Panofsky are co-editors of Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman (1997). In 2000, John Lennox was the recipient of the Governor-General’s International Award for Canadian Studies.
John Lennox has published two recent articles: “Using the Archives” in The Power and Passion of Archives: A Festschrift in Honour of Kent Haworth (2005) ed. Marion Beyea et al., Association of Canadian Archivists; and, "Letters and the Editor" in Canada: Society and the Individual/Societe et individu, ed. Regina Kvasyte, Siauliai University, Lithuania (2006).
His research interests in Canadian Literature include life-writing; editions of correspondence; fiction; and literary history. Prof. Lennox received the honorific title of University Professor at the 2008 June Convocation ceremony.
Degrees
Ph.D., University of New BrunswickM.ès A., Université de Sherbrooke
B.A., York University, Toronto
John Lennox was Acting Dean and then Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies from July 1, 1999 to June 30, 2005, and held the post of Associate Vice-President Graduate from May 2004 to June 2005. He was Academic Convenor of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences that was held at York University May 27-June 3, 2006.
He is co-author, with Clara Thomas, of William Arthur Deacon: A Canadian Literary Life (1982) and co-editor, with Michele Lacombe, of Dear Bill: The Correspondence of William Arthur Deacon (1988). He is editor of Margaret Laurence-Al Purdy: A Friendship in Letters (1993) and co-editor, with Janet Paterson, of Challenges, Projects, Texts: Canadian Editing/Défis, projets et textes dans l'edition critique au Canada (1993). He and Ruth Panofsky are co-editors of Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman (1997). In 2000, John Lennox was the recipient of the Governor-General’s International Award for Canadian Studies.
John Lennox has published two recent articles: “Using the Archives” in The Power and Passion of Archives: A Festschrift in Honour of Kent Haworth (2005) ed. Marion Beyea et al., Association of Canadian Archivists; and, "Letters and the Editor" in Canada: Society and the Individual/Societe et individu, ed. Regina Kvasyte, Siauliai University, Lithuania (2006).
His research interests in Canadian Literature include life-writing; editions of correspondence; fiction; and literary history. Prof. Lennox received the honorific title of University Professor at the 2008 June Convocation ceremony.
Degrees
Ph.D., University of New BrunswickM.ès A., Université de Sherbrooke
B.A., York University, Toronto
