Joseph Pivato, Athabasca University

Hello,

I protest in the strongest terms the Faculty of Arts and Science's plans to disestablish the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. The effective closure of the Comparative Literature program will be damaging to all students in the Arts, damaging to  faculty who do interdisciplinary research and damaging to the University of Toronto.

The  great value of degrees in Comparative Literature has never been documented in the careers and lives of countless professionals across Canada. The negative recommendations for your strategic planning committee perpetuates the anti-arts prejudices too often found on campuses.

I urgue you to keep Comparative Literature alive at U.of T.

 Yours sincerely,

Joseph Pivato, Ph.D.

Professor

Centre for Language and Literature

and Centre for Integrated Studies

Athabasca University, CANADA