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University of Toronto Quarterly

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ7896494 ↗
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The University of Toronto Quarterly, also abbreviated as UTQ, is an interdisciplinary academic journal of the humanities published by the University of Toronto Press. It was established in 1931 under the editorship of the philosopher George Sidney Brett. The current editor-in-chief is Colin Hill. The journal accepts submissions in either English or French. The journal is abstracted and indexed in Academic Search, the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, CrossRef, Current Contents, EBSCO databases, MLA International Bibliography, Project MUSE, Scopus, and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory.

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“University of Toronto Quarterly” enters the record as journal. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what University, Toronto and Quarterly can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1931—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1931-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around University, Toronto and Quarterly.
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This entry incorporates text from “University of Toronto Quarterly” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.