University Of Toronto Students Protest English Instructor Who Is 'Not Interested In Teaching Books By Women'
The National Post reports that Toronto students staged a protest Friday after David Gilmour - who teaches English at the university - gave a controversial interview to Hazlitt Magazine. Gilmour said that he teaches "only the best" literature, more specifically "serious heterosexual guys" and not women or minority writers.
Here's the full excerpt that is causing the most controversy from Gilmour's interview:
In response, more than 100 University of Toronto students and teaching assistants protested on Friday, reading works from authors such as Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich, and Tony Kushner.
"We want to make sure the rest of the university community and the public at large knows that Gilmour is not representative of our institution or of the academy and to encourage Victoria College to seriously reconsider his continued employment," one student told CBC.
Gilmour has also been condemned by members of Toronto's English department, including its chair, who in a statement said: