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Victoria College
About Victoria / Centre for Creativity / People (Centre for Creativity)

Current C4C Administration and Fellows 

The Centre for Creativity welcomes artists and scholars from all areas of creative life. 

Administration

Adam Sol, PhD, is the Launch Director for the Centre for Creativity and the Coordinator of the Creativity & Society Minor. He teaches a number of courses for that program, as well in the Vic One Program. Before joining Victoria College, he was an Associate Professor of English at Laurentian University. He is best known as a poet and critic of poetry, and his first collection of short stories, Rigour, is forthcoming from ECW Press. His academic scholarship focuses on the concept of ethnicity in American literature, particularly from the early 20th century.

Email: a.sol@utoronto.ca 

 

Kelly Baron, PhD, is the Special Projects and Events Coordinator (Research). Alongside her role at Victoria College, she is the Managing Director of Siren Recordings, a sonic poetry label and archive, and the co-editor of The Crossroads of Music and Literature: New Essays on the Muse of Song (Bloomsbury 2025). Her academic scholarship focuses on representations of music and memory in contemporary Canadian literature and the intersections of music and literature more broadly. 

Note: Kelly Baron is currently on leave.

Email: vic.creativity@utoronto.ca  

Kai Wang worked in 2024 with the Office of the Principal and subsequently with Communications. She holds a BA from UBC and an MA from Yonsei University, with a specialization in sustainable development policy.

Email: vic.creativity@utoronto.ca  

Affiliated Research Creation Projects
The C4C Research Creation Affiliate Program, launching in the 2026-2027 year, provides financial and administrative support for the research creation projects of Victoria College Fellows. This opportunity will be of special interest to Fellows who work with, or would like to work with, undergraduate Research Assistants. By affiliating your project with the C4C, you become eligible for the following benefits:  
  • The C4C will cover the residual wages for Work Study Research Assistants (normally one per project) up to $2,000. 
  • You will gain priority access to booking the Northrop Frye Centre (VC102) for project-related activities. If needed, the C4C will also offer administrative and promotional support for affiliated research creation projects and performances. 
As part of the program, we ask that all successful applicants plan for a performance or update on their project as part of our annual Creativity Night.   

We invite Victoria College Fellows to apply for this unique opportunity by submitting a short abstract about your creative project along with a few lines about how collaborating with the C4C and/or employing undergrad RAs would benefit your work.  

Applications will open for affiliated research creation projects in spring 2026. 
Undergraduate Fellows

The Centre for Creativity Undergraduate Fellows are the recipients of the Sheelagh Whittaker Centre for Creativity Undergraduate Fellowship Awards and the Truant Centre for Creativity Undergraduate Fellowship Awards. Both awards will become available for non-graduating undergraduate students at Victoria University working on an independent research creation project in any artistic field. These awards will begin in the 2027-2028 academic year.  

As part of their awards, the C4C Undergraduate Fellows will be regular attendees at C4C programming and will be required to perform or provide an update on their project as part of our annual Creativity Night.  

Applications will open for undergraduate fellows in spring 2027.  

Advisory Committee
Currently, the Centre for Creativity has an advisory board comprised of faculty members who engage in research creation from a wide variety of fields. Advisory committee members commit to either two- or three-year terms, both of which can be renewable for two periods.   
 
Launch Director: Prof. Adam Sol, Victoria College
Advisory Committee Members:  
  • Prof. Seika Boye, Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, dance (2-year term ending or extending in June 2026)
  • Prof. Emanuel Istrate, Victoria College, sciences, holography and photography (3-year term ending or extending in June 2027) 
  • Prof. Claire Battershill, Department of English, creative writer, digital humanities, and print culture (2-year term ending in June 2026)
  • Prof. Sherry Lee, Victoria College, Faculty of Music, music (2-year term ending or extending in June 2026)
  • Prof. Thomas Reynolds, Emmanuel College, music (3-year term ending or extending in June 2028)