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Event poster with text Virtual Undergraduate Town Hall; January 28, 2022, 4 pm Pacific Time, and link to event webpage.Virtual Undergraduate Town Hall

The Department of English Language and Literatures (EL&L) is committed to supporting the learning and wellbeing of our students. To help undergraduates have a safe and smooth transition back to university life, EL&L is co-hosting a virtual Town Hall event with the English Students’ Association on January 28th at 4:00 pm to address your questions […]

NOW VIRTUAL: English Language & Literatures Prospective Student Open House

The Department of English Language and Literatures offers a broad and balanced curriculum featuring historical, national, and transnational literatures, cultural studies, genre studies, theory, media, rhetoric, and English linguistics. In English, you can custom-tailor a program that reflects your interests and which explores literatures, media, and language from the English-speaking world. You can learn about […]

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 […]

Honours Students Orientation and Thesis-writing Workshop

The Department of English Language & Literatures is holding an orientation and thesis-writing workshop for new and returning Honours students. This event will happen in-person on Monday, October 24th, 4:00-5:00PM, in BuTo 323. It will be led by Dr. Laurie McNeill (Associate Head, Undergraduate), Dr. Greg Mackie (Honours Coordinator), and Dr. Judith Paltin. The first […]