Isolation Reading List
We asked members of our department to recommend books for those who are self-isolating or are quarantined due to the Corona Virus. […]
200-level Summer Registration
Want a summer course, but don’t have the right year standing yet? We can help! Contact Nicole at english.undergraduate@ubc.ca PS: yes! year one students CAN register for our brilliant 200-level summer courses –just ask Nicole for help!
Speaker Series: Erika Lin
This talk examines the analytical and methodological challenges that arise when theorizing how early modern performance was experienced and understood by spectators. Erika T. Lin is an award-winning scholar of early modern performance and drama.
Tiffany Potter Wins 3M Teaching Fellowship Award
Congratulations to Professor and Associate Head, Tiffany Potter on winning the 2020 3M National Teaching Fellowship Award. […]
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
Killam Senior Research Prize Recipient
Congratulations to Professor Stephen Guy-Bray on being awarded a 2019 Killam Research Prize. […]
Endnotes 2020 CFP
Endnotes 2020, the annual conference run by the department’s graduate students takes place May 22-23. This year’s theme is (Sub)merged, and topics range from oceanic literatures to the gothic to narratives of assimilation and much more! Abstracts being accepted now (extended to February 15). […]
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.
New Associate Dean of Students
The Faculty of Arts has appointed Professor Laura Moss as the new Associate Dean of Students starting May 2020. [Read more…]
