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  • ENGL 351-002

    "The Rise of the Professional Woman Writer"
    Although many women wrote before the eighteenth century, this age marked the first time that women openly and sometimes profitably wrote for the burgeoning literary marketplace. In this class we will explore the first great movement of women into public life, along with literary reactions to this revolution by women and men.

  • ENGL 200

    NEW COURSE: 'Principles of Literary Studies'
    Collaboratively taught by teams of award-winning professors, English 200 mixes lively seminars with shared weekly lectures, introducing students to important developments and practices in the study of literature.

  • ENGL 231-001

    "Contemporary Indigenous Writing in Canada"
    This course takes themes of transformation as its focus. We'll discuss examples of writing by contemporary Indigenous writers who engage transformation in the context of the impacts of settler colonialism on Indigenous peoples and lands. 

  • ENGL 348-004

    "Thinking and Feeling Out Loud: Sidney, Montaigne, and Shakespeare"
    The opening line of King Lear—when Kent tells Gloucester and Edmund, “I thought the king had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall”—sets the terms for this course and for all psychology, sociology and political science. How do we know what others think and feel? Why do we believe them? Why should they believe us? How do shared thought and feeling influence the actions of people in the world?

  • ENGL 348-002

    "Mediatic Shakespeare"
    Shakespeare was professionally immersed in the three major media of his time: orality, script, and print. This course studies Shakespeare’s dramatization of the interrelationships of these media in a number of major works.

  • ENGL 247-001

    NEW COURSE: 'On Television'
    In this course, we will take up television (specifically, North American television) as an object of investigation and a subject for criticism. Our method will be to approach television by watching it, by reading critical and historical writing about it, and by taking the perspectives of print fiction, graphic novels, and film. We will try to understand why television is so provocative, why it has been so difficult to understand, and how we may develop tools and techniques to approach it critically.

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Celebrating Oecologies: New Work in the Environmental Humanities

In this co-sponsored event, Dr. Daniella Boccassini, Dr. David K. Coley, Dr. Vin Nardizzi, Dr. Tiffany Jo Werth and Dr. Nöelle Phillips will be discussing and launching their most recent publications.

Y-Dan Troeung, Wall Research Scholar

Peter Wall Research Scholar Award

Congratulations to Y-Dang Troeung on being selected as Peter Wall Institute Scholar for 2020-2021. Wall Research Scholars are chosen among leading UBC researchers from all academic disciplines, with the objective of creating a dynamic and diverse intellectual community at the Institute.[Read more]

Thinking While Black

Lind Initiative Seminar: Thinking While Black

"Thinking While Black" is the theme of the 2020 Phil Lind Initiative dialogue series and course (January - April 2020). Led by Dr. Phanuel Antwi, the seminar series brings lectures, panels, and workshops that explore how Blackness manifests in often unconnected guises that can be tracked through the event of racial violence, and what can be done about it. [Read more...]

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Historians on John Gower, edited by Stephen Rigby with Sian Echard

Historians on John Gower
Edited by Stephen Rigby with Siân Echard

Ovidian Transversions, ‘Iphis and Ianthe’, 1300-1650
Edited by Valerie Traub - Patricia Badir and Peggy McCracken

Creating Canadian English: The Professor, the Mountaineer, and a National Variety of English
Stefan Dollinger

The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction
Zachary Lesser (Editor) - Daniel Allington - David A. Brewer - Stephen Colclough and Siân Echard

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
Edited by Vin Nardizzi and Tiffany Jo Werth

Can Lit 237

Canadian Literature
Laura Moss

Why Indigenous Literatures Matter
Daniel Justice

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

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