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English Students’ Association 9th Annual Colloquium

The UBC English Students’ Association (ESA) is delighted to invite you to their student research conference, the Colloquium. Join them on Friday, March 10th from 3:30 – 5:45 pm in Irving K. Barber’s Dodson Room for this annual ESA event. The Colloquium is an undergraduate student conference focused on showcasing the research and scholarship produced […]

Dorothy Black Lecture 2023 with Dr. Eve Ng | The Politics of Cancel Culture: Critiques and Contestations

The UBC Department of English Language & Literatures is pleased to invite you to the 2023 Dorothy Black Lecture featuring Dr. Eve Ng, Associate Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Media Arts and Associate Professor of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Ohio University. This lecture can be attended online via […]

Pictures of Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde in Weimar Germany

On March 23 at 3:30 pm PT, join us for a talk by Dr. Yvonne Ivory (Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina) entitled “Pictures of Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde in Weimar Germany.” This event is hosted by the Department of English Language & Literatures and sponsored by Central, Eastern and […]

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. […]

Honours Information Panel

Are you ready to challenge yourself with an Honours thesis project, but still have questions about the English Honours program? This discussion panel aims to answer all of your pressing questions about the English Honours program. We will be addressing the advantages of choosing the English Honours program, what makes it different from the English […]

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 […]

Endnotes 2023 Conference: Occupation(s) and Survival

Endnotes is the annual graduate conference of the Department of English language & Literatures at the University of British Columbia. The 2023 Endnotes conference will be taking place on the UBC Vancouver Point Grey Campus in the Dodson Room (Room 302) of the Irving K Barber Learning Centre on May 26th and 27th. Registration details […]

Book Launch | Crip Negativity by J. Logan Smilges

You are cordially invited to celebrate the launch of J. Logan Smilges’s Crip Negativity. At a funeral. For good crip feelings. Crip negativity refers to the bad feelings felt by disabled, debilitated, and otherwise non-normatively embodyminded folks while we’re living in a world structured by ableism. The phrase comes from the eponymous book (University of Minnesota […]