UBC Department of English Language & Literatures

Department of English Language & Literatures

Welcome
Welcome to the Department of English Language & Literatures at the University of British Columbia, a top-ranked academic program and scholarly community that conducts dynamic research in both English language and literature.
English Alumni Career Advice
Share the story of your career path and offer advice to students and new graduates. [...]
Archival Research
Faculty and students have access to materials that are housed at UBC’s Rare Books and Special Collections. PhD Candidate Justin O’Hearn and the Department of English recently managed to procure two rare books that share a connection with Oscar Wilde, making an important contribution to this archive.
Medieval Studies
The department is home to a robust network of scholars working on medieval texts. Faculty members and students are affiliated with UBC’s interdisciplinary Medieval Studies program, as well as Oecologies, a research group that applies ecological approaches to medieval and early modern texts.
Canadian Literature
Associate 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.
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.
Beyond the Book
Faculty and graduate student research in English language and literature goes “beyond the book” to include a vast range of multimedia and digital humanities projects. With projects that focus on graphic novels, collaborative writing technologies, and science and technology studies, department members are engaged in re-imagining and revealing new forms of textuality and communication.
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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Frankenreads: Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Come celebrate the 200th anniversary of the writing of FRANKENSTEIN with us by helping read aloud from Shelley's novel on Halloween! All day, in Buchanan Tower 323! [...]

Visiting Speaker Series: Lechers & Loose Men

We are pleased to announce the schedule for the Department of English Language and Literatures' Visiting Speaker Series 2018-2019. Our inaugural lecture will be given by Derrick Higginbotham on 18 October. [...]

2018 Fairclough Prize

The Department of English Language & Literatures is delighted to announce Tara Fleming as the 2017 - 2018 Fairclough prize winner. [...]

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Visiting Speaker Series: Lechers and Loose Men
18 Oct 2018 , 4:00:pm Buchanan Tower, Room 323
The Department of English Language & Literatures Visiting Speaker Series presents "Lechers and Loose Men: Queering Consumption in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Theatres" by Dr. Derrick Higginbotham, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. October 18, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Buchanan Tower 323. [...]
Frankenreads: Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
31 Oct 2018 , 9:30:am Buchanan Tower, Room 323
Come celebrate the 200th anniversary of the writing of FRANKENSTEIN with us by helping read aloud from Shelley's novel on Halloween! All day, in Buchanan Tower 323! [...]
Visiting Speaker Series: Refuge in the Anthropocene
9 Nov 2018 , 2:00:pm Buchanan Tower, Room 323
The Department of English Language & Literatures Visiting Speakers Series presents "Refuge in the Anthropocene: Rights, the Creaturely, and the Rise of the Biotariat" by Stephen Collis, SFU. 9 November 2018, 2:00 - 3:30 pm in BuTo 323 [...]
Visiting Speaker Series: Rebecca West and the Antinomies of Liberalism
30 Nov 2018 , 3:00:pm Buchanan Tower, Room 323
The Department of English Language and Literatures Visiting Speakers Series presents “A New Game for the Bourgeoisie” - Rebecca West on the Allure of Communism to Western Intellectuals by Peter Baehr (Lingnan University, Hong Kong). 30 November 3:00 pm in BuTo 323. [...]

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About the Department of English

Consistently ranked among the top English departments in the world, ours is one of the largest, most diverse, and most vibrant departments at the University of British Columbia.
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