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  • Student Involvement

    Undergraduate and graduate students are deeply involved in department life, organizing events such as Endnotes, the yearly graduate conference, a yearly undergraduate colloquium, and publishing The Garden Statuary, an undergraduate literary journal.

  • Research in the English Language

    The DCHP project team visualizing some of the entries made into the Dictionary of Canadian English on Historic Principles. The 2nd edition, co-edited by Stefan Dollinger and Margery Fee was released to coincide with Canada’s 150th anniversary in 2018.

  • Canadian Literature

    Professor Laura Moss is the editor of Canadian Literature, a leading peer-reviewed journal that has been housed at UBC since its founding in 1959. Canadian Literature also produces CanLit Guides, an online open-access teaching resource that offers a wide array of material for bringing Canadian literature into the classroom.

  • Research in Poetics

    The department has a vibrant tradition of work on poetry and poetics, ranging from contemporary and site-specific projects based in Vancouver to archival and historical work. In previous years, students and faculty have organized a series of poetry readings featuring artists from across Canada.

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Beyond the Bard

Modern-day Spin on Timeless Techniques of Mobilization

2019 UBC Honorary Degree Recipient

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Congress 2019 | UBC

Congress 2019: Circles of Conversation

Are you ready for Congress 2019? Between June 1 – 7 UBC will host the 2019 Congress of the Humanities and Social Science, the largest academic conference in Canada. Visit Congress 2019 to learn about the events and opportunities.

Congress 2019 – Catching up with the Academic Convenor

As Canada's biggest annual interdisciplinary gathering Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences — hosted at UBC from June 1-7 — is just around the corner, we catch up with Academic Convenor Laura Moss.

Beyond the Bard

How can an obscure play written in the late 1500s make a meaningful contribution to the cultural and artistic dialogue of present-day Vancouver? A recent partnership between Bard on the Beach and researchers from UBC’s Faculty of Arts holds the answer.

Sessional Teaching, 2019-2020

The Department of English Language and Literatures invites applications for part-time Sessional Lecturers for the academic year 2019-2020.

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Department Bookshelf   |  Explore Our Bookshelf »

Pluricentricity Debate

The Pluricentricity Debate
Stefan Dollinger

Beautiful Untrue Things: Forging Oscar Wilde’s Extraordinary Afterlife
Gregory Mackie

Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary Imagination
Vin Nardizzi

Can Lit 237

Canadian Literature
Laura Moss

Why Indigenous Literatures Matter
Daniel Justice

Oldness; or, the Last-Ditch Efforts of Marcus O
Brett Grubisic

The Tao of Right and Wrong
Dennis Danielson

Advocating Weapons, War, and Terrorism
Ian Hill

The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics
Barbara Dancygier

ADVA
Glenn Deer Chris Lee Marissa Largo Guest Eds

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