About Mossie Kirkwood Mossie May Kirkwood (1890-1985) was a professor of English at University College (1920-1936) and Trinity College (1936-1959) at the University of Toronto. She was also later Principal and Dean of Women at St Hilda's College (1936-1959). Books by Mossie Kirkwood Santayana Saint of the Imagination by (author) Mossie Kirkwood