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Critical Conversations is a faculty research series organized by both the UBC Department of English Language and Literatures and the UBC English Graduate Student C aucus. The events aim to foster interdisciplinary dialogue across field s and periodization between students\, faculty\, and the larger university community. These events\, which occur a handful of times over the course of the academic year\, feature brief talks by speakers on a critical topic in formed by their wide-ranging research expertise and interests.
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The in-person venue\, Buchanan Tower Room 323\, is wheelchair a ccessible. This event series is also available virtually via Zoom. Please i ndicate your attendance preference via the RSVP form linked below.
Li ght refreshments will be made available for in-person attendees.
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Sandra Tomc (she/ her/hers) is a filmmaker and scholar of nineteenth-century US literature an d print culture. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century book and magazi ne history\, romantic authorship\, the gothic\, especially Edgar Allan Poe\ , transatlantic fashion\, and visual culture. Her most recent book\, Fa shion Nation: Picturing the United States in the Long Nineteenth Century (2021)\, looks at the role of clothing and décor in the development of n ationalist visual itineraries in the nineteenth-century transatlantic world . Her scholarly work has appeared in ELH\, American Literature \, The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe\, and Represent ations. Her most recent documentary feature films include Citizen Marc (2013) and Cool Daddy (2019). She is also the author of Industry and the Creative Mind: The Eccentric Writer in American Litera ture and Entertainment\, 1790-1860 (2012).
Siân Echard (she/her/hers) completed her grad uate work at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto i n 1990\, and has been at UBC since then. She is a medievalist and a book hi storian. Her interests include twelfth-century Anglo-Latin literature\, par ticularly Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britannie\; Arthur ian literature\; the works of John Gower\; and the post-medieval reception and transmission of medieval texts. Her books include Arthurian Narrati ve in the Latin Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press\, 199 8) and The Arthur of Medieval Latin Literature (Cardiff: Universit y of Wales Press\, 2011)\; A Companion to Gower (Cambridge: D.S. B rewer\, 2004)\; and Printing the Middle Ages (Philadelphia: Univer sity of Pennsylvania Press\, 2008). With Robert Rouse\, she is also the gen eral editor of The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell\, 2017).
She has just completed a co-wri tten history of the book in Britain\, and she is working on a study of facs imiles of medieval manuscripts\, from the early modern period to the presen t. She is endlessly fascinated by how the preservation and presentation of text—on the page\, in the archive\, in the digital world—affects how that t ext is received and discussed.
Aren Roukema (he/him/his) received his MA from University of Amsterdam and his PhD from Birkbeck\, University of London. He is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English Language and Literatures a t UBC. He works at the intersections of popular culture\, mental science\, and heterodox religion in the Anglosphere. His publications include Eso tericism and Narrative: The Occult Fiction of Charles Williams (Brill\ , 2018) and recent articles in Science Fiction Studies and the Journal of Literature and Science.
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