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The UBC English Grad uate Student Caucus\, with the support of the Department of English Languag e & Literatures\, is pleased to invite you to the first Critical Conver sations event of the 2024/2025 academic year. On Wednesday\, October 2 nd\, 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 conv ersation in-person in Buchanan Tower 323 or online via Zoom. Light refreshm ents will be available in-person.
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Moberley Luger i s an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Department of English Language and Literatures and Chair of the Co-ordinated Arts Program. Her research ha s generally focused on contemporary American poetry and its relation to cri sis and memory. More recently\, her scholarship has turned toward pedagogie s of poetry\, where she is developing methods for incorporating cultural st udies of poetry into the classroom. She is also working on several equity-f ocused projects\, including the TLEF-funded online teaching resource\, the PASS (Precedents Archive for Sc holarly Speaking).
Dr. Laurie McNeill is Associate Dean\, Students\, in the Facu lty 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. Sh e 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 works in 18th-ce ntury studies. Her arc has included federally-funded research projects on l ibertinism and gender in fiction and theatre\; colonialist representations of indigenous women in 17th- and 18th-century North American contact and ca ptivity narratives\; and women writers in 18th-century England.
As Pr ofessor of Teaching\, she specializes in the scholarship of teaching and le arning\, 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 behin d the award-winning online learning tool ComPAIR. She was awarded the 3M Na tional Teaching Prize in 2020\, the UBC Killam Teaching Prize in 2015\, and the Fairclough Teaching Prize in 2006.