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Book Launch | Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence

This event is a virtual celebration for J. Logan Smilges’s firstborn book, Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence.  Your favorite trans, disabled professor is having their first book baby, and you’re invited! While Queer Silence is a rather melancholy book about the ableism that is trafficked through silence in the field of queer studies, […]

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 […]

Literature & Legacies of Race Conversation: Race, Gender, and Representation in the Revolutionary Atlantic

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

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 […]