William Whitla

WHITLA, William John. b. Galt (now Cambridge), Ontario, Canada, 1 May 1934. Whitla was educated at University College, Toronto (BA, English Language & Literature, 1957); University of Toronto (MA, English, 1961); Trinity College, Toronto (STB, Bachelor of Sacred Theology, Graduate Honours degree in Theology, 1961); Merton College, Oxford (DPhil, English, 1968).  He was Professor of English and Humanities at York University, Toronto (1963–94), and Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar (1994–). Ordained priest in the Anglican Church of Canada (1963), his academic special topics are literature and culture of Victorian Britain (including Victorian poetry, Victorian religious and social...