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We are delighted to welcom e you to the second instalment of Critical Conversations on 1 st February 2023. Critical Conversations is a faculty resear ch series supported by the UBC Department of English Language and Literatur es and the UBC English Graduate Student Caucus to foster co nversations across fields and periodization between students\, faculty\, an d the UBC community. The events are open to all and feature brief talks on a critical topic based on the speakers’ wide-ranging research expertise and interests.
The prompt for the second event is “Ecologies” to be free ly interpreted by the speakers. The event will begin with 10-minute talks f ollowed by a Q&A session. Register to attend in-person at BuTo 323 or onlin e via Zoom. Light refreshments will be available in-person.
Organized by Dr. Jeffrey Severs and Fiana Kawane.
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Robert Rouse's research focuses on Arthuri an and non-Arthurian medieval romance\, historiography\, English national i dentity\, saracens and other medieval others\, the law\, the medieval eroti c\, the medieval geographical imagination\, TV medievalism (including A Game of Thrones)\, digital medievalism\, and ecocritical approaches to premodern texts. Currently\, he is completing a monograph on the Medieva l Geographical Imagination. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall\, Cambridge\, a Visiting Fellow in the Culture and Politics of the Transregional at The Cen tre for Research in the Arts\, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at Cambridge\, and a Slater Visiting Fellow at University College\, Univers ity of Durham.
K avita Philip is President' s Excellence Chair in Network Cultures and Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures. She is author of Civilizing Nature s (Rutgers University Press)\, and co-editor of five volumes curating interdisciplinary work in radical history\, political science\, art\, activ ism\, gender\, technology studies\, and public policy. Her work is in conve rsation with academic research\, science and technology policy\, social mov ements\, and advocacy groups. Her research foci include British colonial en vironmental history\, tactical media\, and decolonizing computing.
Elise Stickles studies conceptual metaphor theory and embodied construction grammar approaches to syntax and lexical semantics. She focuses on multimodal metaphoric constru ctions\, comprising both linguistic and gestural content\, in order to unde rstand how our interaction with and perception of space influences our lang uage\, and in turn how our language use reflects and construes how we think about spatial relationships and events. Her major research projects includ e MetaNet\, a “big data” approach to identifying and analyzing metaphoric l anguage in large text corpora\, and Multimodal Embodied Construction Gramma r\, a theoretical framework for incorporating gestural and other non-verbal communicative content into the representation of linguistic form and meani ng.
Leah Alfred-Olmedo (she/her) is a member of the 'Na̱mg̱is First Nation and from Canada. She is currently a second year MA student in Literature in English. Though she is happily fathoming the field\, her research interests tend toward In digenous literatures and monster studies.
Sarah-Nelle Jackson (they/she) is a PhD candidate and UBC Public Scholar in English L anguage and Literatures. She draws on philology\, ecocriticism\, critical I ndigenous legal scholarship\, and video game studies to explore early notio ns of “environment” in Middle English accounts of imperial failure and cris es of human–nonhuman governance.
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