Randy Boyagoda

Randy Boyagoda
Born	1976 Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Writer and Professor
Education	Trinity College, The University of Toronto, Boston University
Period	2005–present
Website
www.english.utoronto.ca/facultystaff/facultyprofiles/Boyagoda__Randy.htm

Soharn Randy Boyagoda (born 1976) is a Canadian writer, intellectual and critic known for his novels Governor of the Northern Province (2006), Beggar's Feast (2011), Original Prin (2018), and Dante's Indiana (2021). He is also the author of a biography of Richard John Neuhaus (2015). He is the past principal and vice-president of the University of St. Michael's College in Toronto, where he held the Basilian Chair in Christianity, Arts and Letters. He most recently was the Acting Vice-Provost, Faculty & Academic Life at the University of Toronto, and now serves as Vice-Dean, Arts and Sciences, and is the University’s Provostial Advisor on Civil Discourse. Boyagoda is also a professor in the University of Toronto's English Department, and currently chairs the PEN Canada Advisory Board. He served as President of PEN Canada from 2015-2017. Boyagoda is listed in Toronto Life magazine as one of the 50 most influential Torontonians of 2024. ^[1]