The Literature Channel

The YouTube channel of Professor Timothy H. Wilson of the University of Ottawa.

This channel provides videos of some of my lectures on the history of English Literature as well as videos providing introductions to the great books of the Western Canon.

I teach English Literature at the University of Ottawa, specializing in Renaissance Literature and Literary Theory. My recent research has focused on the “quarrel of philosophy and poetry” within the Western tradition, bearing fruit in a number of recent articles and papers on the manifestation of this quarrel in the political thinking of Plato, Shakespeare, and Nietzsche. I am also the Associate Vice-President of Research Programs at the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Prior to joining SSHRC, I held a number of executive positions within the Treasury Board Secretariat and the Public Service Commission of Canada