Please join me in congratulating Dean Paula Gouveia who will be convocating this spring having completed all requirements for her doctoral program in the French Department at the University of Toronto. Paula’s thesis, titled –

La Théorie de la disposition rhétorique: sa formulation dans les textes classiques, sa réapparition dans les arts poétiques de la Renaissance française et son influence sur la composition des Sonnets pour Hélène (1578) de Pierre de Ronsard,

was supervised by Professor John McClelland. Professor McClelland is an especially well known authority in French literature and a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. The external examiner, Professor Amy Graves from SUNY (Buffalo), is a University of Chicago School of Divinity Martin E. Marty Center Fellow and a former Fulbright Scholar at the Institut d'Histoire de la Réformation (Geneva).

Michael Hatton
Vice President, Academic