Event Category Archives: Featured Graduate

Racialization and Resistance in Medieval England and Wales: Ecological Imperialism and England’s First Colony

To illuminate the complex history of how the Welsh, England’s first colonial subjects, became “white”, this talk by Dr. Coral Lumbley (NYU) highlights key moments across the multilingual literary history of premodern Britain, including Old English riddles, Anglo-Latin historiography, Middle Welsh lyric, and Shakespeare’s Henry V.

Literature & Legacies of Race: Nuclear Antipolitics and the Queer Art of Logistical Failure

In this talk, Dr. Iyko Day (Mount Holyoke College) delves into the intimacies between the Congo, the Northwest Territories, and Japan, and examines how power relations between colonizer and colonized were reframed and reproduced in the post-World War II era as relations between the nuclear and non-nuclear. This event is part of the Literature & Legacies of Race Lecture Series.

Critical Conversations: Intimacies & Kinship

We are delighted to welcome you to the first Critical Conversations event this fall 2022. Critical Conversations is an in-house speaker series initiated by the UBC Department of English Language and Literatures and the UBC English Graduate Student Caucus to foster conversations across fields and periodization between students, faculty, and the UBC community. The events […]

Critical Conversations: Ecologies

We are delighted to welcome you to the second instalment of Critical Conversations on 1st February 2023. Critical Conversations is a faculty research series supported by the UBC Department of English Language and Literatures and the UBC English Graduate Student Caucus to foster conversations across fields and periodization between students, faculty, and the UBC community. The events are open […]

Literature & Legacies of Race | ‘Better to the Commonwealth’: Merchant of Venice, Mixedness, and Demographic Revision

The Department of English Language & Literatures is pleased to invite you to the Literature & Legacies of Race lecture series, organized by Dr. Dennis Austin Britton. In this three-part series, leading scholars will help us consider how histories of racism, colonialism, and slavery have shaped cultural imaginations at different historical moments. All lectures in […]

Refugee Lifeworlds: Celebrating Dr. Y-Dang Troeung

On Tuesday March 7, at 4 pm, we invite you to celebrate the life and work of Dr. Y-Dang Troeung, whose generosity and sharpness of mind made her a treasured colleague and friend across the UBC community. Dr. Y-Dang Troeung was a brilliant and resounding scholar in critical refugee studies, transnational Asian literatures, transpacific Cold […]

Critical Conversations: Area, Region, Place

We are delighted to welcome you to the third and final instalment this year of Critical Conversations on 29th March 2023. Critical Conversations is a faculty research series supported by the UBC Department of English Language and Literatures and the UBC English Graduate Student Caucus to foster conversations across fields and periodization between students, faculty, and the UBC community. […]

2023 Garnett Sedgewick Lecture | “Metaphor and Illness” with Dr. Elena Semino

The Department of English Language & Literatures is pleased to invite you to the 2023 Garnett Sedgewick Lecture, featuring Professor Elena Semino (Department of Linguistics and English Language, ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University). Prof. Semino will present a talk entitled “Metaphor and Illness.” Happening on April 17, 2023 at 3:30 […]