BARRY CALLAGHAN
man of letters
Born: July 5, 1937, in Toronto, Ontario
Named: Barry Callaghan
Parents: Morley Callaghan, Lorretto Dee
Partner: Claire Weissman Wilks (www.cwwilks.ca)
Children: Michael Callaghan (b. 1964)
Residences: Toronto, Ontario (Annex, Chinatown, Rosedale)
ABOUT
Novelist, Poet, Translator.
Full Professor, former Chair of the English Department, Atkinson College, York University, Toronto (Retired 2006)
War Correspondent, and Documentary Film Producer 1969 - 1976 (Middle East and Southern Africa)
Literary Critic and Essayist
Founding Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Exile: A Literary Quarterly, and Exile Editions, Ltd., Toronto.
EDUCATION
Completed all Ph.D. courses and exam requirements. Stood first among Ph.D. candidates, 1965. Did not complete Ph.D. Thesis: The Writings of Edmund Wilson.
D.Litt. State University of New York, at Buffalo. Degree awarded 1999.
LLD The University of Guelph, Ontario. Degree awarded 2001.
M.A. Department of English, University of Toronto. Degree awarded 1963
Thesis: The Narrative Structure of Arthur Golden Pym, by E.A. Poe.
B.A. Department of English, University of Toronto. Degree awarded 1960.
PAST TEACHING
St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto - Teaching Fellow (1960 - 1965)
Let’s Speak English. Taught 81 programmes on a T.V. series for the teaching of English to foreign students (1961 - 1962)
