UBC Department of English Language & Literatures

Department of English Language and Literatures

The Poetics of Capitalocene Time
Jason Moore’s recent arguments about the end of “cheap nature” and the closing of resource frontiers indicate temporal dimensions particularly expressive of the Capitalocene present: intensification, simultaneity, and stagnation. These key temporal dynamics, in turn, are reflections of the broader metabolic relations and rifts that develop through capitalism’s planetary transformations. This talk considers the ways such dynamics find formal expression...February 26, 3:00-4:30 pm
ESA’s Sixth Annual Colloquium
A night of literary talks, food and fun. Featuring presentations from English undergraduate, graduate students and faculty, this academic conference provides a great opportunity for attendees to learn about original research from each of the presenters.
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 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.

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