The UBC English Graduate Student Caucus, with the support of the Department of English Language & Literatures, is pleased to invite you to the first Critical Conversations event of the 2024/2025 academic year. On Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024, join us for a critical conversation on research and pedagogy.
Critical Conversations is a faculty research series meant to foster conversations across fields and periodization within our discipline, and to build connections between students, faculty, and the larger UBC community.
The events focus on a critical topic based on the speakers’ wide-ranging research expertise and interests. Register to join this conversation in-person in Buchanan Tower 323 or online via Zoom. Light refreshments will be available in-person.
Speakers
Moberley Luger
Moberley Luger is an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Department of English Language and Literatures and Chair of the Co-ordinated Arts Program. Her research has generally focused on contemporary American poetry and its relation to crisis and memory. More recently, her scholarship has turned toward pedagogies of poetry, where she is developing methods for incorporating cultural studies of poetry into the classroom. She is also working on several equity-focused projects, including the TLEF-funded online teaching resource, the PASS (Precedents Archive for Scholarly Speaking).
Laurie McNeill
Dr. Laurie McNeill is Associate Dean, Students, in the Faculty of Arts. She is also Professor of Teaching in the Department of English Language & Literatures. Her research has focused on contemporary instances of “folk genres” of autobiography, such as the diary and the obituary. She is also engaged in projects related to curriculum design and renewal. Her work on the first-year experience, initially funded by TLEF, was carried out in partnership with Dr. Kathryn Grafton.
Tiffany Potter
Tiffany Potter works in 18th-century studies. Her arc has included federally-funded research projects on libertinism and gender in fiction and theatre; colonialist representations of indigenous women in 17th- and 18th-century North American contact and captivity narratives; and women writers in 18th-century England.
As Professor of Teaching, she specializes in the scholarship of teaching and learning, publishing Approaches to Teaching the Works of Eliza Haywood with MLA (2020). She is one of the originators of UBC’s groundbreaking English PhD Co-op program, and part of the collaborative design team behind the award-winning online learning tool ComPAIR. She was awarded the 3M National Teaching Prize in 2020, the UBC Killam Teaching Prize in 2015, and the Fairclough Teaching Prize in 2006.
