Applying to Graduate School: A Series of discussions, information, and workshops
Thinking about/in the process of applying for your Masters? This is the event for you! The UBC Department of English Language and Literatures and the UBC English Students’ Association present “Applying to Graduate School: A Series of discussions, information, and workshops.” […]
Oroonoko
Tiffany Potter, Editor Broadview Press 2020 The best-known work by Aphra Behn, Oroonoko is an important contribution to the development of the novel in English. Though it predates the British abolition movement by more than a century, it is also an early depiction of the dehumanizing racial violence of slavery; Oroonoko tells of a noble […]
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Eliza Haywood
Tiffany Potter, Editor Modern Language Association 2020 During her long and varied career, Eliza Haywood acted onstage, worked as a publisher and bookseller, and wrote prolifically in many genres, from novels of seduction to essays in periodicals. Her works illuminate the private emotional lives of people in eighteenth-century England, invite readers to consider how women […]
UBC President’s Excellence Chair in Network Cultures
It is with great pleasure that we announce that Dr. Kavita Philip will be joining us at the UBC Department of English Language and Literatures as Professor of English and President’s Excellence Chair in Network Cultures. […]
