The Ridiculousness of David Gilmour:
A Collection of Links
Part 1: Initial Interview: “Shelf Esteem” Interview with Hazlitt (by Emily Keeler): http://www.randomhouse.ca/hazlitt/blog/david-gilmour-building-strong-stomachs
Part 2: David Gilmour’s “Apology”: http://arts.nationalpost.com/2013/09/25/david-gilmour-there-isnt-a-racist-or-a-sexist-bone-in-my-body/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Part 3: Full transcript of the Interview on Hazlitt: http://www.randomhouse.ca/hazlitt/blog/gilmour-transcript
Part 4: University of Toronto Media Statements:
Part 5: Serious Heterosexual Guys for Serious Literary Scholarship: https://www.facebook.com/events/199656653539929/
Part 6: Hitting the Fan: Media Explode
Toronto:
- CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/david-gilmour-not-interested-in-teaching-on-women-authors-1.1868197
- CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/university-of-toronto-students-protest-david-gilmour-1.1869668
- CityTV: http://www.citynews.ca/2013/09/26/author-david-gilmour-in-hot-water-for-comments-on-women-writers/
- CityTV: http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/u-of-t-students-protest-against-david-gilmour-s-comments-1.1473469
- CP24: http://www.cp24.com/news/author-apologizes-for-comments-about-female-writers-1.1471644
- Global News: http://globalnews.ca/news/865281/professors-avoidance-of-female-writers-sparks-international-backlash/
- MetroNews: http://metronews.ca/news/toronto/808476/academics-at-university-of-toronto-angry-over-david-gilmour-comments/
- Toronto Life: http://www.torontolife.com/informer/toronto-culture/2013/09/26/top-10-david-gilmour-quotes-everyday-wisdom-from-a-bespectacled-middle-aged-megalomaniac/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=top-10-david-gilmour-quotes-everyday-wisdom-from-a-bespectacled-middle-aged-megalomaniac
- Toronto Star: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/09/25/u_of_t_instructor_david_gilmour_under_fire_for_shinning_female_writers.html#
- Toronto Star: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/09/27/david_gilmour_protest_and_angry_academics_at_u_of_t.html
- Toronto Star: http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2013/09/27/david_gilmour_controversy_writerinresidence_vs_working_poor_academic.html
- Toronto Sun: http://www.torontosun.com/2013/09/25/david-gilmour-calls-his-comments-about-writers-careless-out-of-context
- Sun News Network: http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2013/09/20130925-210822.html
- TRB: http://www.torontoreviewofbooks.com/2013/09/national-embarrassmentbore-sparks-great-literary-criticism/
Campus Papers:
Toronto
- The Cannon (UofT Engineering): http://cannon.skule.ca/uoft-professor-david-gilmours-comments-condemned/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=uoft-professor-david-gilmours-comments-condemned
- The Varsity: http://thevarsity.ca/2013/09/30/lecturer-not-interested-in-teaching-works-of-queer-female-or-chinese-writers/
- The Varsity (from 2008): http://thevarsity.ca/2008/01/29/qa-with-david-gilmour/
National
National:
- Globe & Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/david-gilmour-responds-after-remarks-on-female-writers-sparks-controversy/article14535257/
- Globe & Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/u-of-ts-english-department-head-appalled-at-gilmours-comments/article14549688/
- Globe & Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/gilmour-and-ignatieff-relics-of-privileged-old-canada/article14616714/
- Globe & Mail (video): http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/news-video/david-gilmour-exposes-literatures-diversity-problem/article14546544/
- The Loop: http://www.theloop.ca/news/ctvnews/article/-/a/2764704/Women-writers-as-good-as-male-writers-author-David-Gilmour-says-in-apology
- Macleans: http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/09/27/down-the-hall-from-david-gilmour/
- National Post: http://arts.nationalpost.com/2013/09/25/david-gilmour-does-not-love-female-writers-does-love-himself/
- National Post: http://arts.nationalpost.com/2013/09/26/david-gilmour-is-not-my-colleague-university-of-toronto-english-professor-takes-aim-at-giller-nominated-author/
- National Post: http://arts.nationalpost.com/2013/09/26/godspeed-david-gilmour-what-this-weeks-twin-controversies-say-about-canadas-artistic-evolution/
- National Post: http://arts.nationalpost.com/2013/09/27/university-of-toronto-students-protest-david-gilmour-as-english-department-head-slams-giller-nominated-author-online/
- National Post: http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/09/27/david-gilmour-protested-by-small-crowd-at-u-of-t/
- National Post (2011): http://arts.nationalpost.com/2011/08/30/david-gilmour-figures-out-the-perfect-order-of-things/
- The Record: http://www.therecord.com/whatson-story/4128166-professor-under-fire-for-shunning-female-authors/
International:
- The Atlantic Wire: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2013/09/lit-professor-who-doesnt-teach-books-women-surprised-offends-people/69880/
- The Chronicle of Higher Ed: http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/u-of-toronto-professor-favors-books-by-serious-heterosexual-guys-mostly/66655
- Colorado Newsday: http://www.coloradonewsday.com/national/19158-david-gilmour-canadian-professor-not-interested-in-teaching-books-by-women.html
- Cosmopolitan: http://www.cosmopolitan.com/celebrity/news/canadian-professor-not-teach-books-by-women
- The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/27/author-david-gilmour-female-writers?CMP=twt_gu
- The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/27/women-books-canadian-lecturer-david-gilmour
- The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/the-womens-blog-with-jane-martinson/2013/sep/27/women-writer-artist-academic-david-gilmour?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
Online-only Media:
- The Gawker: http://gawker.com/coworkers-bail-on-prof-who-will-only-teach-serious-het-1405036574
- Huffington Post Canada: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/25/david-gilmour-books-by-women-professor-authors-_n_3991142.html
- Huffington Post Canada: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/anne-theriault-/david-gilmour-women-writers_b_3991298.html
- Huffington Post Canada: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/holger-syme/holger-syme-david-gilmour_b_3996818.html
- Jezebel: http://jezebel.com/lit-professor-thinks-women-and-queer-writers-suck-sorr-1388250948
- Yahoo News: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/u-t-lit-prof-david-gilmour-lack-women-214530295.html
- Salon.com: http://www.salon.com/2013/09/25/university_of_toronto_professor_david_gilmour_is_not_interested_in_teaching_books_by_women/singleton/
Blogs, Opinion & Commentary:
- Allan Pero: http://allanpero.com/2013/09/26/meanwhile-down-the-hall/
- Anne Thériault: http://bellejarblog.wordpress.com/2013/09/25/an-open-letter-to-david-gilmour/
- Barbara Kay: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/09/26/barbara-kay-david-gilmour-has-a-point/
- Brenna Clarke Gray: http://bookriot.com/2013/09/26/david-gilmour-shallow-misguided-wrong/
- Holger Syme: http://www.dispositio.net/archives/1688?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Dispositio+%28Dispositio%29
- Jan Wong, The Chronicle-Herald: http://thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/1157665-wong-no-girls-please-for-the-gilmour-boy
- Jared Bland: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/memo-to-david-gilmour-teaching-only-books-by-heterosexual-guys-does-a-grave-disservice-to-your-students/article14531982/
- matttbastard: http://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2013/09/26/so-who-are-they-assigning-down-the-hall-anyway/
- Melissa Dalgliesh: http://www.hookandeye.ca/2013/09/why-were-here-or-inevitable-david.html
- Peter Buchanan: http://www.torontoreviewofbooks.com/2013/09/serious-male-authors-contract-status-gilmour-plight-adjunct/
- rabble.ca:
Marusya Bociurkiw: http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/marusya-bociurkiw/2013/09/six-reasons-why-calls-to-fire-david-gilmour-miss-point
Lucia Lorenzi: http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/campus-notes/2013/09/why-david-gilmours-advice-to-go-down-hall-isnt-so-bad
Kaitlin McNabb: http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/bound-not-gagged/2013/09/do-you-have-penis-no-well-then-you-didnt-make-david-gilmours - Rachel Bulatovich (Globe and Mail): http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/as-a-student-of-david-gilmour-and-a-feminist-i-say-put-away-the-rope/article14563703/
- Stephen Warner: http://www.twoblindminds.com/2013/09/regarding-david-gilmour.html
- Tabatha Southey: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/columnists/no-manly-men-at-u-of-t-what-the-dickens/article14702074/
- Tenure, She Wrote: http://tenureshewrote.wordpress.com/2013/09/26/dont-be-that-dude-handy-tips-for-the-male-academic/
Satire:
- A by André Alexis: http://nouspique.com/2013/10/a-by-andre-alexis/
- Chinese Virgina Woolf Tumblr: http://chinesevirginiawoolf.tumblr.com/?og=1
- Dangerous Words: http://www.dangerouswords.org/satira/woman-down-hall-responds-david-gilmour/
- The Horizon: http://www.the-horizon.ca/stomaching-david-gilmour/
- Mallory Ortberg @ The Toast: http://the-toast.net/2013/09/25/david-gilmour-on-virginia-woolf/
- Mememaker:
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