The UBC English Graduate Student Caucus, with the support of the Department of English Language & Literatures, is pleased to invite you to “New / Experimental / Digital Media,” as part of the 2024/2025 Critical Conversations series. On Friday, March 14, join us for a critical conversation between Dr. Danielle Wong, Dr. Kevin McNeilly, and Dr. Adam Frank.
Critical Conversations is a faculty research series organized by both the UBC Department of English Language and Literatures and the UBC English Graduate Student Caucus. The events aim to foster interdisciplinary dialogue across fields and periodization between students, faculty, and the larger university community. These events, which occur a handful of times over the course of the academic year, feature brief talks by speakers on a critical topic informed by their wide-ranging research expertise and interests.
Speakers
Dr. Danielle Wong
Danielle Wong (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia, where she is also a faculty affiliate of the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program. Her research focuses on the analysis of race, empire, capitalism, and “new” technologies. Her first book, Racial Virtuality: Asianness, New Media, and Information Capitalism, is forthcoming with New York University Press. Her other scholarly work can be found in publications including Representations, Transformations, Post-45, and Theatre Research in Canada. Prior to joining the University of British Columbia, she was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Asian American Studies Program at Cornell University.
Dr. Kevin McNeilly
Kevin McNeilly’s pedagogical interests have involved convergences of literary studies, critical digital humanities, and media studies. He has been associated for the past decade with two major research initiatives around improvisation and social aesthetics: Improvisation, Community and Social Practice (2007-2014) and the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (2014-present). His own work in this field has centred on investigating the intersections of music, text and media. He has published critical work on television drama and has been developing a critical project on intermediality and the poetics of listening. He maintains two blogs on poetry, music and improvisation: frankstyles.blogspot.ca and flowfissuremesh.com. His own poetry and creative work can be found through his website, kevinmcneilly.ca.
Dr. Adam Frank
Adam Frank’s research and teaching areas include affect theory and poetics in US literature and culture. His essays have appeared in ELH, Criticism, Critical Inquiry, Science in Context, Textual Practice, and elsewhere. He is the author of Radio Free Stein: Gertrude Stein’s Parlor Plays (Northwestern University Press, 2025) and Transferential Poetics, from Poe to Warhol (Fordham University Press, 2015), and co-author (with Elizabeth Wilson) of A Silvan Tomkins Handbook (University of Minnesota Press, 2020). He has produced a dozen recorded audiodramas in collaboration with composers locally, nationally, and internationally.
