UBC Department of English Language & Literatures

Department of English Language and Literatures

Why Humanity Needs the Humanities Now
We need the humanities now more than ever, says Paul Yachnin, Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies at McGill. Join us on Oct 24 for his talk on how humanities scholars can move the humanities into public space and public action.
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 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 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.

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