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			ANDY ORCHARD TO LEAD TRINITY AS PROVOST When Provost Margaret MacMillan's five-year term comes to a close on June 30, 2007, Trinity College in the University of Toronto will continue to be led by a multi-talented and acclaimed academic. Professor Andy Orchard, director of the Centre for Medieval Studies in the University of Toronto, will be Trinity's next, and 14th, Provost and Vice-Chancellor. Professor Orchard has been described as "the most remarkable scholar of the literatures of early medieval Britain of his generation" and has an outstanding worldwide reputation among Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse and Medieval Latin scholars. As a Fellow of Trinity, Professor Orchard is no stranger to the College. As conversant in Latin as most English-speakers are in English, he has astounded Convocation assemblies as the College's Public Orator since 2002 with Latin citations that are as entertaining – for those in the know – as they are fluid. He is the chair of Trinity's Senate and teaches a first-year seminar course at the College. Professor Orchard has published extensively. He is the author of the Cassell Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend and was widely interviewed recently to unravel the antecedent legends behind Wagner's Ring Cycle. His other books include The Poetic Art of Aldhelm and a forthcoming companion volume, The Poetic Craft of Cynewulf (both Cambridge University Press). He edits a number of series and journals and is currently completing A Critical Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature, a set of translations from Old Norse, for Penguin Classics. Professor Orchard was born in England in February 1964. His early interest in English and the Classics later developed into a full-blown passion for Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, which he pursued at Queens' College, Cambridge, then at Exeter College, Oxford, before receiving his PhD in 1990 at the age of 26 from Cambridge. For the next 10 years he taught Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Cambridge. He came to the University of Toronto in 2000 as Professor of English and Medieval Studies and became associate director of the Centre for Medieval Studies in 2001 and its director in 2004. He is an experienced administrator, as well as a professor who is held in the highest esteem by his students. He honed his administrative skills in his present position, and previously as Admissions Tutor for Arts at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and as head of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Cambridge. Just 42, he is expected to bring his vitality to bear as an inspired leader, charismatic teacher and brilliant lecturer, not to mention a sensibility that will complement and safeguard Trinity's important traditions. Professor Orchard will live in the Provost's Lodge at the College with his wife Clare and two children, Ellen, 10, and Oscar, five. "Trinity has long been a place where the old world and the new meet and merge," he said when introduced as the next Provost at the fall 2006 meeting of Trinity's Corporation. "I hope to maintain the same sense of the lively co-existence of tradition and innovation, and am both inspired and humbled by the achievements of the past and the challenges ahead." Professor Margaret MacMillan will continue to lead Trinity until the end of June, after which she will take up new duties as Warden of St. Antony's College at Oxford University. Back to Top Home

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