UBC Department of English Language & Literatures

Department of English Language and Literatures

Our Honours Program
English Honours offers a small cohort, seminar-style classes, and more grounding in the discipline!
ENGL 372 -001
Writing the Remedy: Illness and Healing in Contemporary Canadian Fiction
The course will also provide an introduction to theories of ‘biopolitics’: a set of ideas that describe how modern state power controls people at the level of their biological existence. Critical accounts of biopolitics will orient our approach to theorizing biomedical citizenship, the immunological body and the entanglements of sex, race and kinship.
Welcoming Four New Faculty
We are thrilled to be welcoming four new faculty to the Department of English Language and Literatures: Sarika Bose, Ayasha Guerin, Christine Kim and Derek Woods.
ENGL 224-001
World Literature in English Tara Lee Term 1 MWF, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM Magic, Border Crossing, and Postcolonial Imaginings This course delves into the wonder, pain, and possibilities of storytelling in works set in Australia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Jamaica, and India, as well as in spaces of transit and transformation. Each of these locations embody complex […]
ENGL 231-001
Introduction to Indigenous Literatures
This course will examine contemporary articulations of Indigenous identity, politics and cultural traditions in the field of literature, through the genres of the novel, poetry, plays/drama, film, and other modes of resurgent cultural expression.
ENGL 223-002
"‘I would Prefer Not To’: Work in US Literature"
One of COVID-19’s effects has been to complicate our relationship with work. In the US, unemployment rates have shot up, “essential” labour is being redefined and in many cases coerced, and labour activism is on the rise. This course will shed light on current struggles by looking to the US’s rich history of literature about work [...]
ENGL 353-001
"So Much Drama! 18th-Century Theatre
After the silence of the Puritan Commonwealth, London’s theatres burst into social, artistic and ideological prominence in the long eighteenth century. Through heroic drama, tragedy, burlesque, laughing comedy, weeping comedy, plays contributed to cultural dialogues on the relative identities of the nation and the individual through such conflicting elements as noble heroics, razor wit, political subversion, historical revisionism, and some rather explicit sex.[...]

CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) AND UBC’S RESPONSE: In response to physical distancing protocols, the Department of English Language and Literatures is now providing support remotely. Find the latest updates and resources from the university. Learn more.

STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY AGAINST ANTI-BLACK VIOLENCE

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