Current Faculty
Adam J. Frank
Adam J. Frank
Associate Dean (Policy, Faculty of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies) and Professor of English
emailadafrank@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 4087
Adam Frank’s research and teaching areas include affect theory and poetics in US literature and culture. His essays have appeared in ELH, Criticism, Critical Inquiry, Science in Context, Textual Practice, and elsewhere. He is the author of Radio Free Stein: Gertrude Stein's Parlor Plays(Northw...Read more
Alexa Manuel
Alexa Manuel
Postdoctoral Fellow
emailalexa.manuel@ubc.ca
Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Indigenous Literary And Cultural Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studiesiskʷist capqʷícyaʔ, kn‿Syilx uɬ St'at'imc. My name is Alexa capqʷícyaʔ Manuel, I am from the Syilx and St’at’imc nations.
I completed my doctoral studies in March 2024. My dissertation, titled “Stories of Lands, Bodies and Dreams: A tmixwcentric Literary Theory”, proposes a li...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Indigenous Literary And Cultural Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies
Alexander Dick
I work and teach in the fields of Eighteenth-Century and Romantic British Literatures, Scottish Literature, and Environmental humanities. I am the author of Romanticism and the Gold Standard: Money, Literature, and Economic Debate in Britain 1790-1830 (Palgrave 2013) and I have also published coll...Read more
Alice Te Punga Somerville
emailHead.English@ubc.ca
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Thematic Research Area
Indigenous Literary And Cultural StudiesProfessor Alice Te Punga Somerville (Māori – Te Āti Awa, Taranaki) joined the UBC Department of English Language and Literatures in 2022. She holds a joint appointment with the UBC Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies. She has previously taught in New Zealand, Australia and Hawai’i. Pro...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Indigenous Literary And Cultural Studies
Aren Roukema
Aren Roukema
Sessional Lecturer
emailaren.roukema@ubc.ca
Aren Roukema is a sessional lecturer and postdoctoral researcher, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He brings together methods and perspectives from literary criticism, cultural studies, history, and religious studies to analyze relationships between narrative ...Read more
ON LEAVE
January 1, 2025 - June 30, 2025
Barbara Dancygier
Barbara Dancygier
ON LEAVE
January 1, 2025 - June 30, 2025
Professor | FRSC | Distinguished University Scholar
phone604 822 5738
I am a cognitive linguist, interested in conceptual viewpoint, conceptual metaphor theory, blending, and construction grammar, as applied to a variety of meaning-related phenomena in grammar and discourse. Much of my work is focused on cognitive poetics, especially fictional narratives and drama. I ...Read more
Brendan McCormack
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I study and teach Canadian and Indigenous literatures, often thinking through the historical entanglements and disentanglements of these fields of study. My research specializes in literary nationalisms, the politics of multiculturalism, and the relationship between public policy and literary arts i...Read more
Christine Kim
Christine Kim is Associate Professor and editor of the journal Canadian Literature. She is the author of The Minor Intimacies of Race (University of Illinois Press, 2016) and co-editor of Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora and Indigeneity (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2012). Her forthcoming book, Br...Read more
Christopher Lee
Chris Lee is Associate Professor of English and an affiliated faculty of the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program (ACAM). He is the author of The Semblance of Identity: Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature (2012), which received the literary criticism book award from the As...Read more
Dallas Hunt
Dallas Hunt
Assistant Professor
emailDallas.Hunt@ubc.ca
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Thematic Research Area
Children’s Literature | Environmental Humanities | Indigenous Literary And Cultural Studies | Poetry And Poetics | Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesDallas Hunt is Cree and a member of Wapsewsipi (Swan River First Nation) in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia, where he also holds an affiliation with the UBC Centre for Cli...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Children’s Literature | Environmental Humanities | Indigenous Literary And Cultural Studies | Poetry And Poetics | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies
Daniel Justice,
O.C., F.R.S.C.
Daniel Justice,
O.C., F.R.S.C.
he/him/his
Professor, English and Critical Indigenous Studies | Distinguished University Scholar
phone604 827 5176
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Danielle Wong
Danielle Wong
Assistant Professor
emaildanielle.wong@ubc.ca
phone604 822 5749
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Thematic Research Area
Asian Diaspora Studies | Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies | Science And Technology StudiesDanielle Wong is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia, where she is also a faculty affiliate of the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program. Her research focuses on the analysis of race, empire, capitalism, a...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Asian Diaspora Studies | Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies | Science And Technology Studies
David Gaertner
David Gaertner
Associate Professor, Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies | Associate Member of English Language and Literatures
David Gaertner is an assistant professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the co-Director of the CEDaR space: a community-centered new media and immersive storytelling lab. He writes, researches, and teaches new media, critical Indigenous studies; Indigenous literatures; contemp...Read more
Dennis Britton
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Thematic Research Area
Critical Race Studies And Black StudiesDr. Britton researches and teaches early modern English literature (especially works by William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser), with a focus on the history of race, critical race studies, Protestant theology, and the history of emotion.
He is the author of Becoming Christian: Race, Reformatio...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Critical Race Studies And Black Studies
Dina Al-Kassim
Dina Al-Kassim
Associate Professor
phone604 822 5743
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Thematic Research Area
Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesDr. Dina Al-Kassim is a critical theorist, who works on political subjectivation, sexuality and aesthetics in transnational modernist and contemporary postcolonial cultures, including the Middle East, Africa, Europe and the United States. She is the author of On Pain of Speech: Fantasies of the Fir...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies
Elise Stickles
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Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Cognitive Linguistics | Contemporary Linguistics
Elise Stickles studies spoken and signed language from the perspective of cognitive semantics.
Her research lies at the intersection of conceptual metaphor theory and embodied construction grammar approaches to syntax and lexical semantics. She focuses particularly on multimodal metapho...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Cognitive Linguistics | Contemporary Linguistics
Elizabeth Hodgson
I earned my BA (English Honours) at UBC (1985), my MA at University of Toronto (1987), and my PhD at Brandeis University in Boston (1992). I returned to UBC in 1995 as a faculty member.
The English Renaissance is my scholarly neighbourhood, and I’m particularly interested in historicism, femi...Read more
Gisèle Baxter
I moved from Nova Scotia to Vancouver in 1997 to teach at UBC. My teaching and research interests include 19th-21st century literary and cultural studies; Gothic studies; Victorian literature and 19th-century studies; science/speculative fiction and fantasy; dystopian/post-apocalyptic narratives; ch...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Rhetoric
Glenn Deer
Glenn Deer
Associate Professor | Associate Head (Curriculum & Planning)
emailGlenn.Deer@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4469
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My areas of teaching and research include Canadian and Asian North American literature, multi-ethnic and mixed race studies, and the intersections of writing, photography, and film. My first book explores the politics of interpretation and ideologies of postmodernism: Postmodern Canadian Fiction and...Read more
Gregory Mackie
Gregory Mackie
Associate Professor
emailmackieg@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 5506
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Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Gender And Sexuality StudiesDr. Mackie specializes in Victorian and Modernist literature, drama, and book history. His monograph Beautiful Untrue Things: Forging Oscar Wilde’s Extraordinary Afterlife (2019) examines a lost archive of Wilde forgeries that flooded the rare book market in the 1920s. He has been the recipient of...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies
Ian Hill
I am an Associate Professor in the History and Theory of Rhetoric, and I am also affiliated with UBC’s Graduate Program in Science and Technology Studies. My research focuses on rhetoric and technology – the ways people advocate, resist, design, and otherwise argue and debate machines and system...Read more
Ina Biermann
Ina Biermann
Sessional Lecturer
emailIna.Biermann@ubc.ca
phone604-822-4254
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Thematic Research Area
Contemporary LinguisticsMy research and teaching interests are in stylistics, phonology, grammar and theory of literature. I’ve taught and published in both English and Afrikaans. Before teaching at UBC, I taught for several years at the University of South Africa working with students from various language backgrounds
Thematic Research Area
Contemporary Linguistics
J. Logan Smilges
Led by commitments to transfeminism and disability justice, J. Logan Smilges writes and teaches at the nexus of queer/trans disability studies, the history of medicine, and rhetorical studies. Their first book, Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence (University of Minnesota Press, 2022...Read more
Jae Sharpe
Jae Sharpe
Sessional Lecturer
emailjaes@mail.ubc.ca
I study United States literature after World War II, with a specific interest in postmodern and maximalist texts and the digital humanities after the Cold War. I have written about David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Matthew McIntosh, paying specific attention to how these authors...Read more
Janice Ho
Janice Ho grew up in Malaysia and Australia, received her BA (First Class Honours) from the University of Queensland, and her MA and PhD degrees from Cornell University. She has research and teaching interests in twentieth- and twenty-first century British literature and culture; British and transna...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies
Jeffrey Severs
I study postmodern and contemporary U.S. literature and culture, and I have published criticism on David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon, John Edgar Wideman, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and others. I co-edited (with Christopher Leise) Pynchon’s Against the Day: A Corrupted Pilgrim’s Guide (University...Read more
Thematic Research Area
War And Conflict Studies
Jessica de Villiers
Jessica de Villiers
Associate Professor and Language Coordinator
emaildevillie@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 4081
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Thematic Research Area
Contemporary LinguisticsI am a linguist interested in meaning-making in grammar and discourse. My research focuses on discourse analysis, clinical linguistics and the interaction between pragmatics and health. In discourse analysis, I study information structure, emotion detection and coherence in discourse, often focusing...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Contemporary Linguistics
Judith Paltin
Judith Paltin
Associate Professor
emailJudith.Paltin@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4080
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Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies | Science And Technology StudiesI am an associate professor in Modernist studies. My current research focuses on the politics of British and Irish modernism and on modern and contemporary theories of collective identification and action. I also hold more general interests in critical and cultural theory, critical studies in gender...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies | Science And Technology Studies
Kathryn Grafton
Kathryn Grafton
Associate Professor of Teaching
I am a Senior Instructor, a tenured faculty member who specializes in Educational Leadership. I work in both English and the Coordinated Arts Program (CAP). My areas of specialization include Canadian literature, media, genre and reception studies, as well as academic writing and research in and acr...Read more
Katja Thieme
emailKatja.Thieme@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4738
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Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Rhetoric | Science And Technology StudiesI have an M.A. in art history from Universität Leipzig, Germany, an M.A. in English from UBC, and a Ph.D. in English language studies from UBC. I have also studied at Carleton University in Ottawa.
My research interests include genre theory, forms of public address in social and political moveme...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Rhetoric | Science And Technology Studies
ON LEAVE
September 1, 2024 - February 28, 2025
Kavita Philip
Kavita Philip
ON LEAVE
September 1, 2024 - February 28, 2025
President's Excellence Chair in Network Cultures | Professor
emailKavita.Philip@ubc.ca
Kevin McNeilly
Kevin McNeilly
Associate Professor
phone604 822 4466
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Poetry And PoeticsMy critical practice emerged from the study of late modernism and critical theory: my own doctoral dissertation repurposed the thinking of Theodor Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas to engage with the poetry and theatre of W. B. Yeats. I maintain a keen interest in contemporary North American poetics, part...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Poetry And Poetics
Kimberly Bain
Dr. Bain’s most pressing and urgent scholarly and critical-creative pursuits have consolidated around the history, theory, and philosophy of the African diaspora, race, gender, environmental and medical racism, the Anthropocene, and Black arts and letters.
She is currently working on two schola...Read more
Laura Moss
emailLaura.Moss@ubc.ca
Laura Moss (BA, U of Toronto; MA U of Guelph, PhD Queen’s U) is Professor of English at UBC where she teaches Canadian and postcolonial literatures, particularly those of Africa. Her current research project is on “Climate Warnings: The Power of Canadian Environmental Art, Literature, and Creat...Read more
Laurie McNeill
phone604 827 5179
Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Pedagogy, Education, and Curriculum Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesI earned my PhD from the Department of English at UBC, and joined the faculty in 2012. My research has focused on contemporary instances of “folk genres” of autobiography, such as the diary and the obituary. Rhetorical genre theories have helped me frame questions about access and agency in self...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Pedagogy, Education, and Curriculum Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies
Mark Vessey
emailMark.Vessey@ubc.ca
phone604 822 8670
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Poetry And Poetics | Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesMark Vessey studied English at Cambridge (BA 1980) and later Latin literature, Roman history and Latin patristics at the Université de Paris-IV (Sorbonne) and Oxford (DPhil 1988), before joining the Department of English at UBC as an I.W. Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 1989. He was appointe...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Poetry And Poetics | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies
Marlene Briggs
Marlene Briggs
Assistant Professor
phone604 822 4088
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Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies | War And Conflict StudiesI completed my PhD in English Literature at the University of Ottawa and I held a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship in the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University before I joined the department of English at the University of British Columbia. I focus on war and conflict in my interdisciplinary...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies | War And Conflict Studies
Mary Chapman
emailMary.Chapman@ubc.ca
phone604 822 5120
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Thematic Research Area
Asian Diaspora Studies | Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Poetry And PoeticsMary Chapman (B.A. Queen’s, M.A. Queen’s, Ph.D. Cornell) is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada. She specializes in American literature and transnational American Studies; suffrage literature and activism; women’s poetry; periodicals; digital human...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Asian Diaspora Studies | Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Poetry And Poetics
ON LEAVE
September 1, 2024 - August 31, 2025
Michael Zeitlin
phone604 822 4018
Thematic Research Area
War And Conflict StudiesPh.D., University of Toronto, 1988. "Faulkner and Ulysses: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry."
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia, 1989-90.
My main areas of interest include transatlantic modernism, the fiction and screenplays of Willia...Read more
Thematic Research Area
War And Conflict Studies
Miguel Mota
Miguel Mota (MA, PhD, Queen’s University) writes and teaches in the following areas: post-1945 British literature, with emphasis on the Thatcher years; the relationship between print and film cultures, and image and text more generally, with focus on the status and function of screenplays as print...Read more
Miranda Burgess
emailmirandab@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 5549
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Environmental Humanities | Poetry And Poetics | Science And Technology StudiesI specialize in British and Irish Romantic-period writing (i.e. writing from the period 1780-1840) and in the history and theory of feeling, mobility, media/mediation, and literary form. My first book, British Fiction and the Production of Social Order, 1740-1830, was published by Cambridge Universi...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Environmental Humanities | Poetry And Poetics | Science And Technology Studies
Mo Pareles
Dr. Pareles (they+) is a medievalist whose interests include Old and Middle English literature, translation, temporalities, critical animal studies, and Jewish-Christian relations.
Their first book, Nothing Pure: Jewish Law, Christian Supersession, and Bible Translation in Old English (University o...Read more
Moberley Luger
Moberley Luger
she/her/hers
Associate Professor of Teaching and Chair of the Coordinated Arts Program
emailmluger@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 9558
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Thematic Research Area
Pedagogy, Education, and Curriculum Studies | Poetry And Poetics | War And Conflict StudiesI am an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Department of English Language and Literatures and Chair of the Coordinated Arts Program. My research has generally focused on contemporary American poetry and its relation to crisis and memory; more recently, my scholarship has turned toward pedagogy ...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Pedagogy, Education, and Curriculum Studies | Poetry And Poetics | War And Conflict Studies
Nancy Frelick
Nancy Frelick
Associate Professor
emailNancy.Frelick@ubc.ca
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Poetry And PoeticsNancy Frelick is associate professor of French Renaissance Literature and English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia where she has been teaching since 1990. She is the author of the book Délie as Other: Toward a Poetics of Desire in Scève’s Délie (French Forum, 19...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Poetry And Poetics
Pamela Dalziel
phone604 822 5408
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Poetry And PoeticsMy research specialization is Victorian literature and culture. I am particularly interested in illustration and visual cultures, aesthetics, ethics, religion, gender, textual criticism (scholarly editing), and the production of culture-texts (texts, such as Dickens’s A Christmas Carol and Carroll...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Poetry And Poetics
Patricia Badir
emailpatribad@mail.ubc.ca
phone822 5603
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Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media StudiesI am a specialist in Renaissance drama and poetry with a particular interest in religious writing. I have a secondary interest in early twentieth-century Canadian theatre. My book, The Maudlin Impression: English Literary Images of Mary Magdalene, 1550-1700, was published by the University of Notre...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies
Phanuel Antwi
Phanuel Antwi
Canada Research Chair in Black Arts and Epistemologies and Associate Professor
emailPhanuel.Antwi@ubc.ca
Phanuel Antwi is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures. In 2022 he was named Canada Research Chair in Black Arts and Epistemologies. He writes, researches, and teaches critical black studies; settler colonial studies; black Atlantic and diaspora studies; Canadi...Read more
Ramesh Mallipeddi
Ramesh Mallipeddi
Associate Professor | Editor, Eighteenth-Century Studies
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Thematic Research Area
Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Environmental Humanities | Science And Technology StudiesI’m an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures. My research on sentimentalism, transatlantic slavery, and the British empire has appeared in Eighteenth-Century Studies, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, and ELH. My monograph, Spectacular Suffe...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Environmental Humanities | Science And Technology Studies
Richard Cavell
Richard Cavell
Professor
emailr.cavell@ubc.ca
phone604 822 2147
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Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media StudiesMy teaching, research, and supervisions are in the area of media theory. In addition to media studies, I have published broadly, on Italian Futurism, Cold War cultural politics, sexuality and nationalism, media anthropology, and West Coast modern architecture. My most recent book, The Explorations of Edmund Snow Carpenter: Anthropology Upside Down, received the McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book of 2024 from the Media Ecology Association, and my first book, McLuhan in Space (UTP 2002), will be published in translation by the Communication University Press (Beijing) in 2026. Co-founder of the Bachelor of Media Studies Program, I regularly teach ENGL 232, “Media Anthropology,” and most recently co-taught a graduate course on “Media and Misinformation.” My latest doctoral supervisions were on lyric poetry from print to Web 2.0 (UBC) and a co-supervision on the ontology of sound (TU Delft NL)....Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies
Rick Gooding
Rick Gooding
he/him/his
Associate Professor of Teaching and Chair, Masters in Children's Literature Program
emailRick.Gooding@ubc.ca
phone604 827 5834
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Thematic Research Area
Children’s LiteratureLike most academics in UBC’s educational leadership stream, my working life is divided between teaching, research, educational leadership, and service. I did my graduate work on the eighteenth-century novel and later researched literary representations of disease in the eighteenth century before t...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Children’s Literature
Robert Rouse
Robert Rouse
Associate Professor
emailRobert.Rouse@ubc.ca
I have taught in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia since 2005, after studying and teaching in the United Kingdom. My own research has been primarily concerned with medieval romance (both Arthurian and non-Arthurian), writing on issues of histori...Read more
Sandra Tomc
emailtomc@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 4097
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Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media StudiesSandra Tomc is a filmmaker and scholar of nineteenth-century US literature and print culture. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century book and magazine history, romantic authorship, the gothic, especially Edgar Allan Poe, transatlantic fashion, and visual culture. Her most recent book, Fashion Na...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies
Siân Echard
emailSian.Echard@ubc.ca
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media StudiesI completed my graduate work at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto in 1990, and have been at UBC since then. I am a medievalist and a book historian. My interests include twelfth-century Anglo-Latin literature, particular Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britannie; A...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies
ON LEAVE
September 1, 2024 - August 31, 2025
Stefan Dollinger
phone604 822 4095
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Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Contemporary Linguistics | Historical Linguistics | Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesStefan is interested in the connection of language and identity, broadly construed, which he most often explores from the vantage points of sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, dialectology and lexicography. He has published monographs on Canadian English, Austrian German and other non-dominant...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Contemporary Linguistics | Historical Linguistics | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies
Stephen Guy-Bray, F.R.S.C.
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I specialize in poetics, Renaissance poetry, and queer theory. My most recent monograph is Line Endings in Renaissance Poetry (2022). I have two chapters in collections forthcoming: one on asexual aesthetics and one of queer parataxis. I’m now writing a book on the question of subject matter in ...Read more
Stephen Partridge
My main areas of interest are Middle English manuscripts, authorship, and Chaucer. In several publications I have contributed to the ongoing, collaborative (though only sometimes formally so) effort to describe more accurately and to contextualize Middle English manuscripts. I have a particular inte...Read more
Suzanne James
I have a PhD in 19-century Canadian literature from SFU, and I have been teaching at the University of British Columbia since 2007. My teaching and research interests include contemporary Canadian and African fiction, literary prize culture, Children's literature and migration studies.
Suzy Anger
emailSuzy.Anger@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4539
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Thematic Research Area
Science And Technology StudiesMy writing and teaching focus on Victorian literature in relation to nineteenth-century science, psychology, and philosophy. I am currently working on a project that investigates Victorian fiction and nineteenth-century theories of consciousness. It considers the novels of Thomas Hardy, Charles Dick...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Science And Technology Studies
Tara Lee
Tara Lee
Sessional Lecturer
emailtara.lee@ubc.ca
Tara Lee completed a PhD (Simon Fraser University) in Asian Canadian literature, with field specialties in Canadian Literature and eighteenth-century British Literature. Her teaching and research interests include critical race studies, techno/new media studies, Canadian literature, dystopian liter...Read more
Tiffany Potter
phone604 822 4026
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Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Pedagogy, Education, and Curriculum StudiesTiffany 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...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Pedagogy, Education, and Curriculum Studies
Tolulope Akinwole
Tolulope Akinwole
Assistant Professor
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Dr. Akinwole’s teaching and research coalesce around African literatures, African screen media, cultural and critical theory, global Black literatures, urban studies, infrastructure studies, and Black geographies. He is associate editor at Africanwriter.com, an online magazine of contemporary Afri...Read more
Vin Nardizzi
emailnardizzi@mail.ubc.ca
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Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Poetry And Poetics | Science And Technology StudiesI specialize in English Renaissance literature and Shakespeare. I also have research interests in ecotheory, plant studies, queer studies, and disability studies.
My first book, Wooden Os: Shakespeare’s Theatres and England’s Trees (University of Toronto Press, 2013; reprint 2017), brings ...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Poetry And Poetics | Science And Technology StudiesGraduate Faculty
Adam J. Frank
Adam J. Frank
Associate Dean (Policy, Faculty of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies) and Professor of English
emailadafrank@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 4087
Adam Frank’s research and teaching areas include affect theory and poetics in US literature and culture. His essays have appeared in ELH, Criticism, Critical Inquiry, Science in Context, Textual Practice, and elsewhere. He is the author of Radio Free Stein: Gertrude Stein's Parlor Plays(Northw...Read more
Alexander Dick
I work and teach in the fields of Eighteenth-Century and Romantic British Literatures, Scottish Literature, and Environmental humanities. I am the author of Romanticism and the Gold Standard: Money, Literature, and Economic Debate in Britain 1790-1830 (Palgrave 2013) and I have also published coll...Read more
Alice Te Punga Somerville
emailHead.English@ubc.ca
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Thematic Research Area
Indigenous Literary And Cultural StudiesProfessor Alice Te Punga Somerville (Māori – Te Āti Awa, Taranaki) joined the UBC Department of English Language and Literatures in 2022. She holds a joint appointment with the UBC Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies. She has previously taught in New Zealand, Australia and Hawai’i. Pro...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Indigenous Literary And Cultural Studies
ON LEAVE
January 1, 2025 - June 30, 2025
Barbara Dancygier
Barbara Dancygier
ON LEAVE
January 1, 2025 - June 30, 2025
Professor | FRSC | Distinguished University Scholar
phone604 822 5738
I am a cognitive linguist, interested in conceptual viewpoint, conceptual metaphor theory, blending, and construction grammar, as applied to a variety of meaning-related phenomena in grammar and discourse. Much of my work is focused on cognitive poetics, especially fictional narratives and drama. I ...Read more
Christine Kim
Christine Kim is Associate Professor and editor of the journal Canadian Literature. She is the author of The Minor Intimacies of Race (University of Illinois Press, 2016) and co-editor of Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora and Indigeneity (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2012). Her forthcoming book, Br...Read more
Christopher Lee
Chris Lee is Associate Professor of English and an affiliated faculty of the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program (ACAM). He is the author of The Semblance of Identity: Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature (2012), which received the literary criticism book award from the As...Read more
Dallas Hunt
Dallas Hunt
Assistant Professor
emailDallas.Hunt@ubc.ca
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Thematic Research Area
Children’s Literature | Environmental Humanities | Indigenous Literary And Cultural Studies | Poetry And Poetics | Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesDallas Hunt is Cree and a member of Wapsewsipi (Swan River First Nation) in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia, where he also holds an affiliation with the UBC Centre for Cli...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Children’s Literature | Environmental Humanities | Indigenous Literary And Cultural Studies | Poetry And Poetics | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies
Daniel Justice,
O.C., F.R.S.C.
Daniel Justice,
O.C., F.R.S.C.
he/him/his
Professor, English and Critical Indigenous Studies | Distinguished University Scholar
phone604 827 5176
location_onBuch E258
‘siyo ginali. I’m an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation, born and raised in Colorado. (See Statement of Indigenous Citizenship and Affiliation below.) Professionally, I work on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm territory as Full Professor and Distinguished University Scholar in the Institute for ...Read more
Danielle Wong
Danielle Wong
Assistant Professor
emaildanielle.wong@ubc.ca
phone604 822 5749
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Thematic Research Area
Asian Diaspora Studies | Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies | Science And Technology StudiesDanielle Wong is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia, where she is also a faculty affiliate of the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program. Her research focuses on the analysis of race, empire, capitalism, a...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Asian Diaspora Studies | Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies | Science And Technology Studies
David Gaertner
David Gaertner
Associate Professor, Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies | Associate Member of English Language and Literatures
David Gaertner is an assistant professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the co-Director of the CEDaR space: a community-centered new media and immersive storytelling lab. He writes, researches, and teaches new media, critical Indigenous studies; Indigenous literatures; contemp...Read more
Dennis Britton
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Thematic Research Area
Critical Race Studies And Black StudiesDr. Britton researches and teaches early modern English literature (especially works by William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser), with a focus on the history of race, critical race studies, Protestant theology, and the history of emotion.
He is the author of Becoming Christian: Race, Reformatio...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Critical Race Studies And Black Studies
Dina Al-Kassim
Dina Al-Kassim
Associate Professor
phone604 822 5743
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Thematic Research Area
Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesDr. Dina Al-Kassim is a critical theorist, who works on political subjectivation, sexuality and aesthetics in transnational modernist and contemporary postcolonial cultures, including the Middle East, Africa, Europe and the United States. She is the author of On Pain of Speech: Fantasies of the Fir...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies
Elise Stickles
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Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Cognitive Linguistics | Contemporary Linguistics
Elise Stickles studies spoken and signed language from the perspective of cognitive semantics.
Her research lies at the intersection of conceptual metaphor theory and embodied construction grammar approaches to syntax and lexical semantics. She focuses particularly on multimodal metapho...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Cognitive Linguistics | Contemporary Linguistics
Elizabeth Hodgson
I earned my BA (English Honours) at UBC (1985), my MA at University of Toronto (1987), and my PhD at Brandeis University in Boston (1992). I returned to UBC in 1995 as a faculty member.
The English Renaissance is my scholarly neighbourhood, and I’m particularly interested in historicism, femi...Read more
Glenn Deer
Glenn Deer
Associate Professor | Associate Head (Curriculum & Planning)
emailGlenn.Deer@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4469
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My areas of teaching and research include Canadian and Asian North American literature, multi-ethnic and mixed race studies, and the intersections of writing, photography, and film. My first book explores the politics of interpretation and ideologies of postmodernism: Postmodern Canadian Fiction and...Read more
Gregory Mackie
Gregory Mackie
Associate Professor
emailmackieg@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 5506
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Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Gender And Sexuality StudiesDr. Mackie specializes in Victorian and Modernist literature, drama, and book history. His monograph Beautiful Untrue Things: Forging Oscar Wilde’s Extraordinary Afterlife (2019) examines a lost archive of Wilde forgeries that flooded the rare book market in the 1920s. He has been the recipient of...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies
Ian Hill
I am an Associate Professor in the History and Theory of Rhetoric, and I am also affiliated with UBC’s Graduate Program in Science and Technology Studies. My research focuses on rhetoric and technology – the ways people advocate, resist, design, and otherwise argue and debate machines and system...Read more
J. Logan Smilges
Led by commitments to transfeminism and disability justice, J. Logan Smilges writes and teaches at the nexus of queer/trans disability studies, the history of medicine, and rhetorical studies. Their first book, Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence (University of Minnesota Press, 2022...Read more
Janice Ho
Janice Ho grew up in Malaysia and Australia, received her BA (First Class Honours) from the University of Queensland, and her MA and PhD degrees from Cornell University. She has research and teaching interests in twentieth- and twenty-first century British literature and culture; British and transna...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies
Jeffrey Severs
I study postmodern and contemporary U.S. literature and culture, and I have published criticism on David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon, John Edgar Wideman, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and others. I co-edited (with Christopher Leise) Pynchon’s Against the Day: A Corrupted Pilgrim’s Guide (University...Read more
Thematic Research Area
War And Conflict Studies
Jessica de Villiers
Jessica de Villiers
Associate Professor and Language Coordinator
emaildevillie@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 4081
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Thematic Research Area
Contemporary LinguisticsI am a linguist interested in meaning-making in grammar and discourse. My research focuses on discourse analysis, clinical linguistics and the interaction between pragmatics and health. In discourse analysis, I study information structure, emotion detection and coherence in discourse, often focusing...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Contemporary Linguistics
Judith Paltin
Judith Paltin
Associate Professor
emailJudith.Paltin@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4080
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Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies | Science And Technology StudiesI am an associate professor in Modernist studies. My current research focuses on the politics of British and Irish modernism and on modern and contemporary theories of collective identification and action. I also hold more general interests in critical and cultural theory, critical studies in gender...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies | Science And Technology Studies
ON LEAVE
September 1, 2024 - February 28, 2025
Kavita Philip
Kavita Philip
ON LEAVE
September 1, 2024 - February 28, 2025
President's Excellence Chair in Network Cultures | Professor
emailKavita.Philip@ubc.ca
Kevin McNeilly
Kevin McNeilly
Associate Professor
phone604 822 4466
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Poetry And PoeticsMy critical practice emerged from the study of late modernism and critical theory: my own doctoral dissertation repurposed the thinking of Theodor Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas to engage with the poetry and theatre of W. B. Yeats. I maintain a keen interest in contemporary North American poetics, part...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Poetry And Poetics
Kimberly Bain
Dr. Bain’s most pressing and urgent scholarly and critical-creative pursuits have consolidated around the history, theory, and philosophy of the African diaspora, race, gender, environmental and medical racism, the Anthropocene, and Black arts and letters.
She is currently working on two schola...Read more
Laura Moss
emailLaura.Moss@ubc.ca
Laura Moss (BA, U of Toronto; MA U of Guelph, PhD Queen’s U) is Professor of English at UBC where she teaches Canadian and postcolonial literatures, particularly those of Africa. Her current research project is on “Climate Warnings: The Power of Canadian Environmental Art, Literature, and Creat...Read more
Mark Vessey
emailMark.Vessey@ubc.ca
phone604 822 8670
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Poetry And Poetics | Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesMark Vessey studied English at Cambridge (BA 1980) and later Latin literature, Roman history and Latin patristics at the Université de Paris-IV (Sorbonne) and Oxford (DPhil 1988), before joining the Department of English at UBC as an I.W. Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 1989. He was appointe...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Poetry And Poetics | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies
Marlene Briggs
Marlene Briggs
Assistant Professor
phone604 822 4088
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Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies | War And Conflict StudiesI completed my PhD in English Literature at the University of Ottawa and I held a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship in the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University before I joined the department of English at the University of British Columbia. I focus on war and conflict in my interdisciplinary...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies | War And Conflict Studies
Mary Chapman
emailMary.Chapman@ubc.ca
phone604 822 5120
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Thematic Research Area
Asian Diaspora Studies | Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Poetry And PoeticsMary Chapman (B.A. Queen’s, M.A. Queen’s, Ph.D. Cornell) is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada. She specializes in American literature and transnational American Studies; suffrage literature and activism; women’s poetry; periodicals; digital human...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Asian Diaspora Studies | Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Poetry And Poetics
ON LEAVE
September 1, 2024 - August 31, 2025
Michael Zeitlin
phone604 822 4018
Thematic Research Area
War And Conflict StudiesPh.D., University of Toronto, 1988. "Faulkner and Ulysses: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry."
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia, 1989-90.
My main areas of interest include transatlantic modernism, the fiction and screenplays of Willia...Read more
Thematic Research Area
War And Conflict Studies
Miguel Mota
Miguel Mota (MA, PhD, Queen’s University) writes and teaches in the following areas: post-1945 British literature, with emphasis on the Thatcher years; the relationship between print and film cultures, and image and text more generally, with focus on the status and function of screenplays as print...Read more
Miranda Burgess
emailmirandab@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 5549
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Environmental Humanities | Poetry And Poetics | Science And Technology StudiesI specialize in British and Irish Romantic-period writing (i.e. writing from the period 1780-1840) and in the history and theory of feeling, mobility, media/mediation, and literary form. My first book, British Fiction and the Production of Social Order, 1740-1830, was published by Cambridge Universi...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Environmental Humanities | Poetry And Poetics | Science And Technology Studies
Mo Pareles
Dr. Pareles (they+) is a medievalist whose interests include Old and Middle English literature, translation, temporalities, critical animal studies, and Jewish-Christian relations.
Their first book, Nothing Pure: Jewish Law, Christian Supersession, and Bible Translation in Old English (University o...Read more
Nancy Frelick
Nancy Frelick
Associate Professor
emailNancy.Frelick@ubc.ca
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Poetry And PoeticsNancy Frelick is associate professor of French Renaissance Literature and English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia where she has been teaching since 1990. She is the author of the book Délie as Other: Toward a Poetics of Desire in Scève’s Délie (French Forum, 19...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Poetry And Poetics
Pamela Dalziel
phone604 822 5408
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Poetry And PoeticsMy research specialization is Victorian literature and culture. I am particularly interested in illustration and visual cultures, aesthetics, ethics, religion, gender, textual criticism (scholarly editing), and the production of culture-texts (texts, such as Dickens’s A Christmas Carol and Carroll...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Poetry And Poetics
Patricia Badir
emailpatribad@mail.ubc.ca
phone822 5603
location_onBuTo 513
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media StudiesI am a specialist in Renaissance drama and poetry with a particular interest in religious writing. I have a secondary interest in early twentieth-century Canadian theatre. My book, The Maudlin Impression: English Literary Images of Mary Magdalene, 1550-1700, was published by the University of Notre...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies
Phanuel Antwi
Phanuel Antwi
Canada Research Chair in Black Arts and Epistemologies and Associate Professor
emailPhanuel.Antwi@ubc.ca
Phanuel Antwi is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures. In 2022 he was named Canada Research Chair in Black Arts and Epistemologies. He writes, researches, and teaches critical black studies; settler colonial studies; black Atlantic and diaspora studies; Canadi...Read more
Ramesh Mallipeddi
Ramesh Mallipeddi
Associate Professor | Editor, Eighteenth-Century Studies
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Thematic Research Area
Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Environmental Humanities | Science And Technology StudiesI’m an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures. My research on sentimentalism, transatlantic slavery, and the British empire has appeared in Eighteenth-Century Studies, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, and ELH. My monograph, Spectacular Suffe...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Environmental Humanities | Science And Technology Studies
Richard Cavell
Richard Cavell
Professor
emailr.cavell@ubc.ca
phone604 822 2147
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Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media StudiesMy teaching, research, and supervisions are in the area of media theory. In addition to media studies, I have published broadly, on Italian Futurism, Cold War cultural politics, sexuality and nationalism, media anthropology, and West Coast modern architecture. My most recent book, The Explorations of Edmund Snow Carpenter: Anthropology Upside Down, received the McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book of 2024 from the Media Ecology Association, and my first book, McLuhan in Space (UTP 2002), will be published in translation by the Communication University Press (Beijing) in 2026. Co-founder of the Bachelor of Media Studies Program, I regularly teach ENGL 232, “Media Anthropology,” and most recently co-taught a graduate course on “Media and Misinformation.” My latest doctoral supervisions were on lyric poetry from print to Web 2.0 (UBC) and a co-supervision on the ontology of sound (TU Delft NL)....Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies
Robert Rouse
Robert Rouse
Associate Professor
emailRobert.Rouse@ubc.ca
I have taught in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia since 2005, after studying and teaching in the United Kingdom. My own research has been primarily concerned with medieval romance (both Arthurian and non-Arthurian), writing on issues of histori...Read more
Sandra Tomc
emailtomc@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 4097
location_onBuTo 517
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media StudiesSandra Tomc is a filmmaker and scholar of nineteenth-century US literature and print culture. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century book and magazine history, romantic authorship, the gothic, especially Edgar Allan Poe, transatlantic fashion, and visual culture. Her most recent book, Fashion Na...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies
Siân Echard
emailSian.Echard@ubc.ca
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media StudiesI completed my graduate work at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto in 1990, and have been at UBC since then. I am a medievalist and a book historian. My interests include twelfth-century Anglo-Latin literature, particular Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britannie; A...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies
ON LEAVE
September 1, 2024 - August 31, 2025
Stefan Dollinger
phone604 822 4095
location_onBuTo 416
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Contemporary Linguistics | Historical Linguistics | Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesStefan is interested in the connection of language and identity, broadly construed, which he most often explores from the vantage points of sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, dialectology and lexicography. He has published monographs on Canadian English, Austrian German and other non-dominant...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Contemporary Linguistics | Historical Linguistics | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies
Stephen Guy-Bray, F.R.S.C.
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I specialize in poetics, Renaissance poetry, and queer theory. My most recent monograph is Line Endings in Renaissance Poetry (2022). I have two chapters in collections forthcoming: one on asexual aesthetics and one of queer parataxis. I’m now writing a book on the question of subject matter in ...Read more
Stephen Partridge
My main areas of interest are Middle English manuscripts, authorship, and Chaucer. In several publications I have contributed to the ongoing, collaborative (though only sometimes formally so) effort to describe more accurately and to contextualize Middle English manuscripts. I have a particular inte...Read more
Suzy Anger
emailSuzy.Anger@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4539
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Thematic Research Area
Science And Technology StudiesMy writing and teaching focus on Victorian literature in relation to nineteenth-century science, psychology, and philosophy. I am currently working on a project that investigates Victorian fiction and nineteenth-century theories of consciousness. It considers the novels of Thomas Hardy, Charles Dick...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Science And Technology Studies
Tolulope Akinwole
Tolulope Akinwole
Assistant Professor
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Dr. Akinwole’s teaching and research coalesce around African literatures, African screen media, cultural and critical theory, global Black literatures, urban studies, infrastructure studies, and Black geographies. He is associate editor at Africanwriter.com, an online magazine of contemporary Afri...Read more
Vin Nardizzi
emailnardizzi@mail.ubc.ca
location_onBuTo 425
Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Poetry And Poetics | Science And Technology StudiesI specialize in English Renaissance literature and Shakespeare. I also have research interests in ecotheory, plant studies, queer studies, and disability studies.
My first book, Wooden Os: Shakespeare’s Theatres and England’s Trees (University of Toronto Press, 2013; reprint 2017), brings ...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Poetry And Poetics | Science And Technology StudiesLeadership Team
Alice Te Punga Somerville
emailHead.English@ubc.ca
location_onBuTo 397
Thematic Research Area
Indigenous Literary And Cultural StudiesProfessor Alice Te Punga Somerville (Māori – Te Āti Awa, Taranaki) joined the UBC Department of English Language and Literatures in 2022. She holds a joint appointment with the UBC Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies. She has previously taught in New Zealand, Australia and Hawai’i. Pro...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Indigenous Literary And Cultural Studies
Laura Moss
emailLaura.Moss@ubc.ca
Laura Moss (BA, U of Toronto; MA U of Guelph, PhD Queen’s U) is Professor of English at UBC where she teaches Canadian and postcolonial literatures, particularly those of Africa. Her current research project is on “Climate Warnings: The Power of Canadian Environmental Art, Literature, and Creat...Read more
Miguel Mota
Miguel Mota (MA, PhD, Queen’s University) writes and teaches in the following areas: post-1945 British literature, with emphasis on the Thatcher years; the relationship between print and film cultures, and image and text more generally, with focus on the status and function of screenplays as print...Read more
Sandra Tomc
emailtomc@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 4097
location_onBuTo 517
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media StudiesSandra Tomc is a filmmaker and scholar of nineteenth-century US literature and print culture. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century book and magazine history, romantic authorship, the gothic, especially Edgar Allan Poe, transatlantic fashion, and visual culture. Her most recent book, Fashion Na...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media StudiesPostdoctoral Fellows
Alexa Manuel
Alexa Manuel
Postdoctoral Fellow
emailalexa.manuel@ubc.ca
Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Indigenous Literary And Cultural Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studiesiskʷist capqʷícyaʔ, kn‿Syilx uɬ St'at'imc. My name is Alexa capqʷícyaʔ Manuel, I am from the Syilx and St’at’imc nations.
I completed my doctoral studies in March 2024. My dissertation, titled “Stories of Lands, Bodies and Dreams: A tmixwcentric Literary Theory”, proposes a li...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Indigenous Literary And Cultural Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies
Lauren Cullen
emailLauren.Cullen@ubc.ca
location_onBuTo 301
I am a Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English Language and Literatures at UBC.
My research is located at the intersection of nineteenth-century literature, animal studies, and the environmental humanities, with broader interests spa...Read more
Current Faculty
Adam J. Frank
Adam J. Frank
Associate Dean (Policy, Faculty of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies) and Professor of English
emailadafrank@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 4087
Adam Frank’s research and teaching areas include affect theory and poetics in US literature and culture. His essays have appeared in ELH, Criticism, Critical Inquiry, Science in Context, Textual Practice, and elsewhere. He is the author of Radio Free Stein: Gertrude Stein's Parlor Plays(Northw...Read more
Alexa Manuel
Alexa Manuel
Postdoctoral Fellow
emailalexa.manuel@ubc.ca
Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Indigenous Literary And Cultural Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studiesiskʷist capqʷícyaʔ, kn‿Syilx uɬ St'at'imc. My name is Alexa capqʷícyaʔ Manuel, I am from the Syilx and St’at’imc nations.
I completed my doctoral studies in March 2024. My dissertation, titled “Stories of Lands, Bodies and Dreams: A tmixwcentric Literary Theory”, proposes a li...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Indigenous Literary And Cultural Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies
Alexander Dick
I work and teach in the fields of Eighteenth-Century and Romantic British Literatures, Scottish Literature, and Environmental humanities. I am the author of Romanticism and the Gold Standard: Money, Literature, and Economic Debate in Britain 1790-1830 (Palgrave 2013) and I have also published coll...Read more
Period/Nation Research Area
Restoration And Eighteenth-Century Literatures | Romantic, Victorian And Nineteenth-Century Literatures
Alice Te Punga Somerville
emailHead.English@ubc.ca
location_onBuTo 397
Thematic Research Area
Indigenous Literary And Cultural StudiesProfessor Alice Te Punga Somerville (Māori – Te Āti Awa, Taranaki) joined the UBC Department of English Language and Literatures in 2022. She holds a joint appointment with the UBC Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies. She has previously taught in New Zealand, Australia and Hawai’i. Pro...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Indigenous Literary And Cultural Studies
Aren Roukema
Aren Roukema
Sessional Lecturer
emailaren.roukema@ubc.ca
Aren Roukema is a sessional lecturer and postdoctoral researcher, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He brings together methods and perspectives from literary criticism, cultural studies, history, and religious studies to analyze relationships between narrative ...Read more
ON LEAVE
January 1, 2025 - June 30, 2025
Barbara Dancygier
Barbara Dancygier
ON LEAVE
January 1, 2025 - June 30, 2025
Professor | FRSC | Distinguished University Scholar
phone604 822 5738
I am a cognitive linguist, interested in conceptual viewpoint, conceptual metaphor theory, blending, and construction grammar, as applied to a variety of meaning-related phenomena in grammar and discourse. Much of my work is focused on cognitive poetics, especially fictional narratives and drama. I ...Read more
Brendan McCormack
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I study and teach Canadian and Indigenous literatures, often thinking through the historical entanglements and disentanglements of these fields of study. My research specializes in literary nationalisms, the politics of multiculturalism, and the relationship between public policy and literary arts i...Read more
Period/Nation Research Area
Canadian Literatures
Christine Kim
Christine Kim is Associate Professor and editor of the journal Canadian Literature. She is the author of The Minor Intimacies of Race (University of Illinois Press, 2016) and co-editor of Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora and Indigeneity (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2012). Her forthcoming book, Br...Read more
Period/Nation Research Area
Canadian Literatures | Contemporary Literatures | Global Literatures | United States Literatures
Christopher Lee
Chris Lee is Associate Professor of English and an affiliated faculty of the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program (ACAM). He is the author of The Semblance of Identity: Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature (2012), which received the literary criticism book award from the As...Read more
Period/Nation Research Area
Canadian Literatures | Contemporary Literatures | Global Literatures | Modernist And Twentieth-Century Literatures | United States Literatures
Dallas Hunt
Dallas Hunt
Assistant Professor
emailDallas.Hunt@ubc.ca
location_onBuTo 505
Thematic Research Area
Children’s Literature | Environmental Humanities | Indigenous Literary And Cultural Studies | Poetry And Poetics | Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesDallas Hunt is Cree and a member of Wapsewsipi (Swan River First Nation) in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia, where he also holds an affiliation with the UBC Centre for Cli...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Children’s Literature | Environmental Humanities | Indigenous Literary And Cultural Studies | Poetry And Poetics | Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Canadian Literatures | Contemporary Literatures | United States Literatures
Daniel Justice,
O.C., F.R.S.C.
Daniel Justice,
O.C., F.R.S.C.
he/him/his
Professor, English and Critical Indigenous Studies | Distinguished University Scholar
phone604 827 5176
location_onBuch E258
‘siyo ginali. I’m an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation, born and raised in Colorado. (See Statement of Indigenous Citizenship and Affiliation below.) Professionally, I work on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm territory as Full Professor and Distinguished University Scholar in the Institute for ...Read more
Danielle Wong
Danielle Wong
Assistant Professor
emaildanielle.wong@ubc.ca
phone604 822 5749
location_onBuTo 501
Thematic Research Area
Asian Diaspora Studies | Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies | Science And Technology StudiesDanielle Wong is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia, where she is also a faculty affiliate of the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program. Her research focuses on the analysis of race, empire, capitalism, a...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Asian Diaspora Studies | Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies | Science And Technology Studies
David Gaertner
David Gaertner
Associate Professor, Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies | Associate Member of English Language and Literatures
David Gaertner is an assistant professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the co-Director of the CEDaR space: a community-centered new media and immersive storytelling lab. He writes, researches, and teaches new media, critical Indigenous studies; Indigenous literatures; contemp...Read more
Dennis Britton
location_onBuTo 526
Thematic Research Area
Critical Race Studies And Black StudiesDr. Britton researches and teaches early modern English literature (especially works by William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser), with a focus on the history of race, critical race studies, Protestant theology, and the history of emotion.
He is the author of Becoming Christian: Race, Reformatio...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Critical Race Studies And Black StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Medieval And Early Modern Literatures
Dina Al-Kassim
Dina Al-Kassim
Associate Professor
phone604 822 5743
location_onBuTo 508
Thematic Research Area
Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesDr. Dina Al-Kassim is a critical theorist, who works on political subjectivation, sexuality and aesthetics in transnational modernist and contemporary postcolonial cultures, including the Middle East, Africa, Europe and the United States. She is the author of On Pain of Speech: Fantasies of the Fir...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Contemporary Literatures | Global Literatures | Modernist And Twentieth-Century Literatures | United States Literatures
Elise Stickles
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Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Cognitive Linguistics | Contemporary Linguistics
Elise Stickles studies spoken and signed language from the perspective of cognitive semantics.
Her research lies at the intersection of conceptual metaphor theory and embodied construction grammar approaches to syntax and lexical semantics. She focuses particularly on multimodal metapho...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Cognitive Linguistics | Contemporary Linguistics
Elizabeth Hodgson
I earned my BA (English Honours) at UBC (1985), my MA at University of Toronto (1987), and my PhD at Brandeis University in Boston (1992). I returned to UBC in 1995 as a faculty member.
The English Renaissance is my scholarly neighbourhood, and I’m particularly interested in historicism, femi...Read more
Period/Nation Research Area
Medieval And Early Modern Literatures
Gisèle Baxter
I moved from Nova Scotia to Vancouver in 1997 to teach at UBC. My teaching and research interests include 19th-21st century literary and cultural studies; Gothic studies; Victorian literature and 19th-century studies; science/speculative fiction and fantasy; dystopian/post-apocalyptic narratives; ch...Read more
Thematic Research Area
RhetoricPeriod/Nation Research Area
Contemporary Literatures | Modernist And Twentieth-Century Literatures | Romantic, Victorian And Nineteenth-Century Literatures
Glenn Deer
Glenn Deer
Associate Professor | Associate Head (Curriculum & Planning)
emailGlenn.Deer@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4469
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My areas of teaching and research include Canadian and Asian North American literature, multi-ethnic and mixed race studies, and the intersections of writing, photography, and film. My first book explores the politics of interpretation and ideologies of postmodernism: Postmodern Canadian Fiction and...Read more
Gregory Mackie
Gregory Mackie
Associate Professor
emailmackieg@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 5506
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Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Gender And Sexuality StudiesDr. Mackie specializes in Victorian and Modernist literature, drama, and book history. His monograph Beautiful Untrue Things: Forging Oscar Wilde’s Extraordinary Afterlife (2019) examines a lost archive of Wilde forgeries that flooded the rare book market in the 1920s. He has been the recipient of...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Gender And Sexuality StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Modernist And Twentieth-Century Literatures | Romantic, Victorian And Nineteenth-Century Literatures
Ian Hill
I am an Associate Professor in the History and Theory of Rhetoric, and I am also affiliated with UBC’s Graduate Program in Science and Technology Studies. My research focuses on rhetoric and technology – the ways people advocate, resist, design, and otherwise argue and debate machines and system...Read more
Ina Biermann
Ina Biermann
Sessional Lecturer
emailIna.Biermann@ubc.ca
phone604-822-4254
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Thematic Research Area
Contemporary LinguisticsMy research and teaching interests are in stylistics, phonology, grammar and theory of literature. I’ve taught and published in both English and Afrikaans. Before teaching at UBC, I taught for several years at the University of South Africa working with students from various language backgrounds
Thematic Research Area
Contemporary Linguistics
J. Logan Smilges
Led by commitments to transfeminism and disability justice, J. Logan Smilges writes and teaches at the nexus of queer/trans disability studies, the history of medicine, and rhetorical studies. Their first book, Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence (University of Minnesota Press, 2022...Read more
Jae Sharpe
Jae Sharpe
Sessional Lecturer
emailjaes@mail.ubc.ca
I study United States literature after World War II, with a specific interest in postmodern and maximalist texts and the digital humanities after the Cold War. I have written about David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Matthew McIntosh, paying specific attention to how these authors...Read more
Janice Ho
Janice Ho grew up in Malaysia and Australia, received her BA (First Class Honours) from the University of Queensland, and her MA and PhD degrees from Cornell University. She has research and teaching interests in twentieth- and twenty-first century British literature and culture; British and transna...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Contemporary Literatures | Global Literatures | Modernist And Twentieth-Century Literatures
Jeffrey Severs
I study postmodern and contemporary U.S. literature and culture, and I have published criticism on David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon, John Edgar Wideman, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and others. I co-edited (with Christopher Leise) Pynchon’s Against the Day: A Corrupted Pilgrim’s Guide (University...Read more
Thematic Research Area
War And Conflict Studies
Jessica de Villiers
Jessica de Villiers
Associate Professor and Language Coordinator
emaildevillie@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 4081
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Thematic Research Area
Contemporary LinguisticsI am a linguist interested in meaning-making in grammar and discourse. My research focuses on discourse analysis, clinical linguistics and the interaction between pragmatics and health. In discourse analysis, I study information structure, emotion detection and coherence in discourse, often focusing...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Contemporary Linguistics
John Culbert
John Culbert
Sessional Lecturer
emailjohn.culbert@ubc.ca
Period/Nation Research Area
Contemporary Literatures
Judith Paltin
Judith Paltin
Associate Professor
emailJudith.Paltin@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4080
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Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies | Science And Technology StudiesI am an associate professor in Modernist studies. My current research focuses on the politics of British and Irish modernism and on modern and contemporary theories of collective identification and action. I also hold more general interests in critical and cultural theory, critical studies in gender...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies | Science And Technology Studies
Kathryn Grafton
Kathryn Grafton
Associate Professor of Teaching
I am a Senior Instructor, a tenured faculty member who specializes in Educational Leadership. I work in both English and the Coordinated Arts Program (CAP). My areas of specialization include Canadian literature, media, genre and reception studies, as well as academic writing and research in and acr...Read more
Katja Thieme
emailKatja.Thieme@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4738
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Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Rhetoric | Science And Technology StudiesI have an M.A. in art history from Universität Leipzig, Germany, an M.A. in English from UBC, and a Ph.D. in English language studies from UBC. I have also studied at Carleton University in Ottawa.
My research interests include genre theory, forms of public address in social and political moveme...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Rhetoric | Science And Technology StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Canadian Literatures
ON LEAVE
September 1, 2024 - February 28, 2025
Kavita Philip
Kavita Philip
ON LEAVE
September 1, 2024 - February 28, 2025
President's Excellence Chair in Network Cultures | Professor
emailKavita.Philip@ubc.ca
Thematic Research Area
Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies | Science And Technology StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Global Literatures
Kevin McNeilly
Kevin McNeilly
Associate Professor
phone604 822 4466
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Poetry And PoeticsMy critical practice emerged from the study of late modernism and critical theory: my own doctoral dissertation repurposed the thinking of Theodor Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas to engage with the poetry and theatre of W. B. Yeats. I maintain a keen interest in contemporary North American poetics, part...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Poetry And PoeticsPeriod/Nation Research Area
Canadian Literatures | Contemporary Literatures | Global Literatures | Modernist And Twentieth-Century Literatures | United States Literatures
Kimberly Bain
Dr. Bain’s most pressing and urgent scholarly and critical-creative pursuits have consolidated around the history, theory, and philosophy of the African diaspora, race, gender, environmental and medical racism, the Anthropocene, and Black arts and letters.
She is currently working on two schola...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Science And Technology StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
United States Literatures
Laura Moss
emailLaura.Moss@ubc.ca
Laura Moss (BA, U of Toronto; MA U of Guelph, PhD Queen’s U) is Professor of English at UBC where she teaches Canadian and postcolonial literatures, particularly those of Africa. Her current research project is on “Climate Warnings: The Power of Canadian Environmental Art, Literature, and Creat...Read more
Laurie McNeill
phone604 827 5179
Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Pedagogy, Education, and Curriculum Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesI earned my PhD from the Department of English at UBC, and joined the faculty in 2012. My research has focused on contemporary instances of “folk genres” of autobiography, such as the diary and the obituary. Rhetorical genre theories have helped me frame questions about access and agency in self...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Pedagogy, Education, and Curriculum Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Canadian Literatures | Contemporary Literatures | Global Literatures | Modernist And Twentieth-Century Literatures | United States Literatures
Mark Vessey
emailMark.Vessey@ubc.ca
phone604 822 8670
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Poetry And Poetics | Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesMark Vessey studied English at Cambridge (BA 1980) and later Latin literature, Roman history and Latin patristics at the Université de Paris-IV (Sorbonne) and Oxford (DPhil 1988), before joining the Department of English at UBC as an I.W. Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 1989. He was appointe...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Poetry And Poetics | Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Medieval And Early Modern Literatures | Modernist And Twentieth-Century Literatures
Marlene Briggs
Marlene Briggs
Assistant Professor
phone604 822 4088
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Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies | War And Conflict StudiesI completed my PhD in English Literature at the University of Ottawa and I held a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship in the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University before I joined the department of English at the University of British Columbia. I focus on war and conflict in my interdisciplinary...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies | War And Conflict Studies
Mary Chapman
emailMary.Chapman@ubc.ca
phone604 822 5120
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Thematic Research Area
Asian Diaspora Studies | Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Poetry And PoeticsMary Chapman (B.A. Queen’s, M.A. Queen’s, Ph.D. Cornell) is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada. She specializes in American literature and transnational American Studies; suffrage literature and activism; women’s poetry; periodicals; digital human...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Asian Diaspora Studies | Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Poetry And PoeticsPeriod/Nation Research Area
Canadian Literatures | Modernist And Twentieth-Century Literatures | United States Literatures
ON LEAVE
September 1, 2024 - August 31, 2025
Michael Zeitlin
phone604 822 4018
Thematic Research Area
War And Conflict StudiesPh.D., University of Toronto, 1988. "Faulkner and Ulysses: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry."
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia, 1989-90.
My main areas of interest include transatlantic modernism, the fiction and screenplays of Willia...Read more
Thematic Research Area
War And Conflict Studies
Miguel Mota
Miguel Mota (MA, PhD, Queen’s University) writes and teaches in the following areas: post-1945 British literature, with emphasis on the Thatcher years; the relationship between print and film cultures, and image and text more generally, with focus on the status and function of screenplays as print...Read more
Miranda Burgess
emailmirandab@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 5549
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Environmental Humanities | Poetry And Poetics | Science And Technology StudiesI specialize in British and Irish Romantic-period writing (i.e. writing from the period 1780-1840) and in the history and theory of feeling, mobility, media/mediation, and literary form. My first book, British Fiction and the Production of Social Order, 1740-1830, was published by Cambridge Universi...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Environmental Humanities | Poetry And Poetics | Science And Technology StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Romantic, Victorian And Nineteenth-Century Literatures
Mo Pareles
Dr. Pareles (they+) is a medievalist whose interests include Old and Middle English literature, translation, temporalities, critical animal studies, and Jewish-Christian relations.
Their first book, Nothing Pure: Jewish Law, Christian Supersession, and Bible Translation in Old English (University o...Read more
Period/Nation Research Area
Medieval And Early Modern Literatures
Moberley Luger
Moberley Luger
she/her/hers
Associate Professor of Teaching and Chair of the Coordinated Arts Program
emailmluger@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 9558
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Thematic Research Area
Pedagogy, Education, and Curriculum Studies | Poetry And Poetics | War And Conflict StudiesI am an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Department of English Language and Literatures and Chair of the Coordinated Arts Program. My research has generally focused on contemporary American poetry and its relation to crisis and memory; more recently, my scholarship has turned toward pedagogy ...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Pedagogy, Education, and Curriculum Studies | Poetry And Poetics | War And Conflict Studies
Nancy Frelick
Nancy Frelick
Associate Professor
emailNancy.Frelick@ubc.ca
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Poetry And PoeticsNancy Frelick is associate professor of French Renaissance Literature and English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia where she has been teaching since 1990. She is the author of the book Délie as Other: Toward a Poetics of Desire in Scève’s Délie (French Forum, 19...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Poetry And PoeticsPeriod/Nation Research Area
Medieval And Early Modern Literatures
Pamela Dalziel
phone604 822 5408
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Poetry And PoeticsMy research specialization is Victorian literature and culture. I am particularly interested in illustration and visual cultures, aesthetics, ethics, religion, gender, textual criticism (scholarly editing), and the production of culture-texts (texts, such as Dickens’s A Christmas Carol and Carroll...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Poetry And PoeticsPeriod/Nation Research Area
Romantic, Victorian And Nineteenth-Century Literatures
Patricia Badir
emailpatribad@mail.ubc.ca
phone822 5603
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Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media StudiesI am a specialist in Renaissance drama and poetry with a particular interest in religious writing. I have a secondary interest in early twentieth-century Canadian theatre. My book, The Maudlin Impression: English Literary Images of Mary Magdalene, 1550-1700, was published by the University of Notre...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies
Phanuel Antwi
Phanuel Antwi
Canada Research Chair in Black Arts and Epistemologies and Associate Professor
emailPhanuel.Antwi@ubc.ca
Phanuel Antwi is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures. In 2022 he was named Canada Research Chair in Black Arts and Epistemologies. He writes, researches, and teaches critical black studies; settler colonial studies; black Atlantic and diaspora studies; Canadi...Read more
Ramesh Mallipeddi
Ramesh Mallipeddi
Associate Professor | Editor, Eighteenth-Century Studies
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Thematic Research Area
Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Environmental Humanities | Science And Technology StudiesI’m an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures. My research on sentimentalism, transatlantic slavery, and the British empire has appeared in Eighteenth-Century Studies, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, and ELH. My monograph, Spectacular Suffe...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Environmental Humanities | Science And Technology StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Restoration And Eighteenth-Century Literatures
Richard Cavell
Richard Cavell
Professor
emailr.cavell@ubc.ca
phone604 822 2147
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Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media StudiesMy teaching, research, and supervisions are in the area of media theory. In addition to media studies, I have published broadly, on Italian Futurism, Cold War cultural politics, sexuality and nationalism, media anthropology, and West Coast modern architecture. My most recent book, The Explorations of Edmund Snow Carpenter: Anthropology Upside Down, received the McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book of 2024 from the Media Ecology Association, and my first book, McLuhan in Space (UTP 2002), will be published in translation by the Communication University Press (Beijing) in 2026. Co-founder of the Bachelor of Media Studies Program, I regularly teach ENGL 232, “Media Anthropology,” and most recently co-taught a graduate course on “Media and Misinformation.” My latest doctoral supervisions were on lyric poetry from print to Web 2.0 (UBC) and a co-supervision on the ontology of sound (TU Delft NL)....Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies
Rick Gooding
Rick Gooding
he/him/his
Associate Professor of Teaching and Chair, Masters in Children's Literature Program
emailRick.Gooding@ubc.ca
phone604 827 5834
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Thematic Research Area
Children’s LiteratureLike most academics in UBC’s educational leadership stream, my working life is divided between teaching, research, educational leadership, and service. I did my graduate work on the eighteenth-century novel and later researched literary representations of disease in the eighteenth century before t...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Children’s LiteraturePeriod/Nation Research Area
Restoration And Eighteenth-Century Literatures
Robert Rouse
Robert Rouse
Associate Professor
emailRobert.Rouse@ubc.ca
I have taught in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia since 2005, after studying and teaching in the United Kingdom. My own research has been primarily concerned with medieval romance (both Arthurian and non-Arthurian), writing on issues of histori...Read more
Period/Nation Research Area
Medieval And Early Modern Literatures
Sandra Tomc
emailtomc@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 4097
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Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media StudiesSandra Tomc is a filmmaker and scholar of nineteenth-century US literature and print culture. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century book and magazine history, romantic authorship, the gothic, especially Edgar Allan Poe, transatlantic fashion, and visual culture. Her most recent book, Fashion Na...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Romantic, Victorian And Nineteenth-Century Literatures | United States Literatures
Sarika Bose
Period/Nation Research Area
Contemporary Literatures | Romantic, Victorian And Nineteenth-Century Literatures
Siân Echard
emailSian.Echard@ubc.ca
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media StudiesI completed my graduate work at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto in 1990, and have been at UBC since then. I am a medievalist and a book historian. My interests include twelfth-century Anglo-Latin literature, particular Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britannie; A...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Medieval And Early Modern Literatures
ON LEAVE
September 1, 2024 - August 31, 2025
Stefan Dollinger
phone604 822 4095
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Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Contemporary Linguistics | Historical Linguistics | Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesStefan is interested in the connection of language and identity, broadly construed, which he most often explores from the vantage points of sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, dialectology and lexicography. He has published monographs on Canadian English, Austrian German and other non-dominant...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Contemporary Linguistics | Historical Linguistics | Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Canadian Literatures
Stephen Guy-Bray, F.R.S.C.
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I specialize in poetics, Renaissance poetry, and queer theory. My most recent monograph is Line Endings in Renaissance Poetry (2022). I have two chapters in collections forthcoming: one on asexual aesthetics and one of queer parataxis. I’m now writing a book on the question of subject matter in ...Read more
Period/Nation Research Area
Medieval And Early Modern Literatures
Stephen Partridge
My main areas of interest are Middle English manuscripts, authorship, and Chaucer. In several publications I have contributed to the ongoing, collaborative (though only sometimes formally so) effort to describe more accurately and to contextualize Middle English manuscripts. I have a particular inte...Read more
Period/Nation Research Area
Medieval And Early Modern Literatures
Suzanne James
I have a PhD in 19-century Canadian literature from SFU, and I have been teaching at the University of British Columbia since 2007. My teaching and research interests include contemporary Canadian and African fiction, literary prize culture, Children's literature and migration studies.
Suzy Anger
emailSuzy.Anger@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4539
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Thematic Research Area
Science And Technology StudiesMy writing and teaching focus on Victorian literature in relation to nineteenth-century science, psychology, and philosophy. I am currently working on a project that investigates Victorian fiction and nineteenth-century theories of consciousness. It considers the novels of Thomas Hardy, Charles Dick...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Science And Technology StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Romantic, Victorian And Nineteenth-Century Literatures
Tara Lee
Tara Lee
Sessional Lecturer
emailtara.lee@ubc.ca
Tara Lee completed a PhD (Simon Fraser University) in Asian Canadian literature, with field specialties in Canadian Literature and eighteenth-century British Literature. Her teaching and research interests include critical race studies, techno/new media studies, Canadian literature, dystopian liter...Read more
Tiffany Potter
phone604 822 4026
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Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Pedagogy, Education, and Curriculum StudiesTiffany 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...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Pedagogy, Education, and Curriculum StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Restoration And Eighteenth-Century Literatures
Tolulope Akinwole
Tolulope Akinwole
Assistant Professor
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Dr. Akinwole’s teaching and research coalesce around African literatures, African screen media, cultural and critical theory, global Black literatures, urban studies, infrastructure studies, and Black geographies. He is associate editor at Africanwriter.com, an online magazine of contemporary Afri...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Environmental Humanities | Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Global Literatures
Vin Nardizzi
emailnardizzi@mail.ubc.ca
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Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Poetry And Poetics | Science And Technology StudiesI specialize in English Renaissance literature and Shakespeare. I also have research interests in ecotheory, plant studies, queer studies, and disability studies.
My first book, Wooden Os: Shakespeare’s Theatres and England’s Trees (University of Toronto Press, 2013; reprint 2017), brings ...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Poetry And Poetics | Science And Technology StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Medieval And Early Modern LiteraturesGraduate Faculty
Adam J. Frank
Adam J. Frank
Associate Dean (Policy, Faculty of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies) and Professor of English
emailadafrank@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 4087
Adam Frank’s research and teaching areas include affect theory and poetics in US literature and culture. His essays have appeared in ELH, Criticism, Critical Inquiry, Science in Context, Textual Practice, and elsewhere. He is the author of Radio Free Stein: Gertrude Stein's Parlor Plays(Northw...Read more
Alexander Dick
I work and teach in the fields of Eighteenth-Century and Romantic British Literatures, Scottish Literature, and Environmental humanities. I am the author of Romanticism and the Gold Standard: Money, Literature, and Economic Debate in Britain 1790-1830 (Palgrave 2013) and I have also published coll...Read more
Period/Nation Research Area
Restoration And Eighteenth-Century Literatures | Romantic, Victorian And Nineteenth-Century Literatures
Alice Te Punga Somerville
emailHead.English@ubc.ca
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Thematic Research Area
Indigenous Literary And Cultural StudiesProfessor Alice Te Punga Somerville (Māori – Te Āti Awa, Taranaki) joined the UBC Department of English Language and Literatures in 2022. She holds a joint appointment with the UBC Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies. She has previously taught in New Zealand, Australia and Hawai’i. Pro...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Indigenous Literary And Cultural Studies
ON LEAVE
January 1, 2025 - June 30, 2025
Barbara Dancygier
Barbara Dancygier
ON LEAVE
January 1, 2025 - June 30, 2025
Professor | FRSC | Distinguished University Scholar
phone604 822 5738
I am a cognitive linguist, interested in conceptual viewpoint, conceptual metaphor theory, blending, and construction grammar, as applied to a variety of meaning-related phenomena in grammar and discourse. Much of my work is focused on cognitive poetics, especially fictional narratives and drama. I ...Read more
Christine Kim
Christine Kim is Associate Professor and editor of the journal Canadian Literature. She is the author of The Minor Intimacies of Race (University of Illinois Press, 2016) and co-editor of Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora and Indigeneity (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2012). Her forthcoming book, Br...Read more
Period/Nation Research Area
Canadian Literatures | Contemporary Literatures | Global Literatures | United States Literatures
Christopher Lee
Chris Lee is Associate Professor of English and an affiliated faculty of the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program (ACAM). He is the author of The Semblance of Identity: Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature (2012), which received the literary criticism book award from the As...Read more
Period/Nation Research Area
Canadian Literatures | Contemporary Literatures | Global Literatures | Modernist And Twentieth-Century Literatures | United States Literatures
Dallas Hunt
Dallas Hunt
Assistant Professor
emailDallas.Hunt@ubc.ca
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Thematic Research Area
Children’s Literature | Environmental Humanities | Indigenous Literary And Cultural Studies | Poetry And Poetics | Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesDallas Hunt is Cree and a member of Wapsewsipi (Swan River First Nation) in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia, where he also holds an affiliation with the UBC Centre for Cli...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Children’s Literature | Environmental Humanities | Indigenous Literary And Cultural Studies | Poetry And Poetics | Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Canadian Literatures | Contemporary Literatures | United States Literatures
Daniel Justice,
O.C., F.R.S.C.
Daniel Justice,
O.C., F.R.S.C.
he/him/his
Professor, English and Critical Indigenous Studies | Distinguished University Scholar
phone604 827 5176
location_onBuch E258
‘siyo ginali. I’m an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation, born and raised in Colorado. (See Statement of Indigenous Citizenship and Affiliation below.) Professionally, I work on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm territory as Full Professor and Distinguished University Scholar in the Institute for ...Read more
Danielle Wong
Danielle Wong
Assistant Professor
emaildanielle.wong@ubc.ca
phone604 822 5749
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Thematic Research Area
Asian Diaspora Studies | Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies | Science And Technology StudiesDanielle Wong is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia, where she is also a faculty affiliate of the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program. Her research focuses on the analysis of race, empire, capitalism, a...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Asian Diaspora Studies | Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies | Science And Technology Studies
David Gaertner
David Gaertner
Associate Professor, Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies | Associate Member of English Language and Literatures
David Gaertner is an assistant professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the co-Director of the CEDaR space: a community-centered new media and immersive storytelling lab. He writes, researches, and teaches new media, critical Indigenous studies; Indigenous literatures; contemp...Read more
Dennis Britton
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Thematic Research Area
Critical Race Studies And Black StudiesDr. Britton researches and teaches early modern English literature (especially works by William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser), with a focus on the history of race, critical race studies, Protestant theology, and the history of emotion.
He is the author of Becoming Christian: Race, Reformatio...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Critical Race Studies And Black StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Medieval And Early Modern Literatures
Dina Al-Kassim
Dina Al-Kassim
Associate Professor
phone604 822 5743
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Thematic Research Area
Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesDr. Dina Al-Kassim is a critical theorist, who works on political subjectivation, sexuality and aesthetics in transnational modernist and contemporary postcolonial cultures, including the Middle East, Africa, Europe and the United States. She is the author of On Pain of Speech: Fantasies of the Fir...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Contemporary Literatures | Global Literatures | Modernist And Twentieth-Century Literatures | United States Literatures
Elise Stickles
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Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Cognitive Linguistics | Contemporary Linguistics
Elise Stickles studies spoken and signed language from the perspective of cognitive semantics.
Her research lies at the intersection of conceptual metaphor theory and embodied construction grammar approaches to syntax and lexical semantics. She focuses particularly on multimodal metapho...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Cognitive Linguistics | Contemporary Linguistics
Elizabeth Hodgson
I earned my BA (English Honours) at UBC (1985), my MA at University of Toronto (1987), and my PhD at Brandeis University in Boston (1992). I returned to UBC in 1995 as a faculty member.
The English Renaissance is my scholarly neighbourhood, and I’m particularly interested in historicism, femi...Read more
Period/Nation Research Area
Medieval And Early Modern Literatures
Glenn Deer
Glenn Deer
Associate Professor | Associate Head (Curriculum & Planning)
emailGlenn.Deer@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4469
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My areas of teaching and research include Canadian and Asian North American literature, multi-ethnic and mixed race studies, and the intersections of writing, photography, and film. My first book explores the politics of interpretation and ideologies of postmodernism: Postmodern Canadian Fiction and...Read more
Gregory Mackie
Gregory Mackie
Associate Professor
emailmackieg@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 5506
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Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Gender And Sexuality StudiesDr. Mackie specializes in Victorian and Modernist literature, drama, and book history. His monograph Beautiful Untrue Things: Forging Oscar Wilde’s Extraordinary Afterlife (2019) examines a lost archive of Wilde forgeries that flooded the rare book market in the 1920s. He has been the recipient of...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Gender And Sexuality StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Modernist And Twentieth-Century Literatures | Romantic, Victorian And Nineteenth-Century Literatures
Ian Hill
I am an Associate Professor in the History and Theory of Rhetoric, and I am also affiliated with UBC’s Graduate Program in Science and Technology Studies. My research focuses on rhetoric and technology – the ways people advocate, resist, design, and otherwise argue and debate machines and system...Read more
J. Logan Smilges
Led by commitments to transfeminism and disability justice, J. Logan Smilges writes and teaches at the nexus of queer/trans disability studies, the history of medicine, and rhetorical studies. Their first book, Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence (University of Minnesota Press, 2022...Read more
Janice Ho
Janice Ho grew up in Malaysia and Australia, received her BA (First Class Honours) from the University of Queensland, and her MA and PhD degrees from Cornell University. She has research and teaching interests in twentieth- and twenty-first century British literature and culture; British and transna...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Contemporary Literatures | Global Literatures | Modernist And Twentieth-Century Literatures
Jeffrey Severs
I study postmodern and contemporary U.S. literature and culture, and I have published criticism on David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon, John Edgar Wideman, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and others. I co-edited (with Christopher Leise) Pynchon’s Against the Day: A Corrupted Pilgrim’s Guide (University...Read more
Thematic Research Area
War And Conflict Studies
Jessica de Villiers
Jessica de Villiers
Associate Professor and Language Coordinator
emaildevillie@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 4081
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Thematic Research Area
Contemporary LinguisticsI am a linguist interested in meaning-making in grammar and discourse. My research focuses on discourse analysis, clinical linguistics and the interaction between pragmatics and health. In discourse analysis, I study information structure, emotion detection and coherence in discourse, often focusing...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Contemporary Linguistics
Judith Paltin
Judith Paltin
Associate Professor
emailJudith.Paltin@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4080
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Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies | Science And Technology StudiesI am an associate professor in Modernist studies. My current research focuses on the politics of British and Irish modernism and on modern and contemporary theories of collective identification and action. I also hold more general interests in critical and cultural theory, critical studies in gender...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies | Science And Technology Studies
ON LEAVE
September 1, 2024 - February 28, 2025
Kavita Philip
Kavita Philip
ON LEAVE
September 1, 2024 - February 28, 2025
President's Excellence Chair in Network Cultures | Professor
emailKavita.Philip@ubc.ca
Thematic Research Area
Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies | Science And Technology StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Global Literatures
Kevin McNeilly
Kevin McNeilly
Associate Professor
phone604 822 4466
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Poetry And PoeticsMy critical practice emerged from the study of late modernism and critical theory: my own doctoral dissertation repurposed the thinking of Theodor Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas to engage with the poetry and theatre of W. B. Yeats. I maintain a keen interest in contemporary North American poetics, part...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Poetry And PoeticsPeriod/Nation Research Area
Canadian Literatures | Contemporary Literatures | Global Literatures | Modernist And Twentieth-Century Literatures | United States Literatures
Kimberly Bain
Dr. Bain’s most pressing and urgent scholarly and critical-creative pursuits have consolidated around the history, theory, and philosophy of the African diaspora, race, gender, environmental and medical racism, the Anthropocene, and Black arts and letters.
She is currently working on two schola...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Science And Technology StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
United States Literatures
Laura Moss
emailLaura.Moss@ubc.ca
Laura Moss (BA, U of Toronto; MA U of Guelph, PhD Queen’s U) is Professor of English at UBC where she teaches Canadian and postcolonial literatures, particularly those of Africa. Her current research project is on “Climate Warnings: The Power of Canadian Environmental Art, Literature, and Creat...Read more
Mark Vessey
emailMark.Vessey@ubc.ca
phone604 822 8670
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Poetry And Poetics | Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesMark Vessey studied English at Cambridge (BA 1980) and later Latin literature, Roman history and Latin patristics at the Université de Paris-IV (Sorbonne) and Oxford (DPhil 1988), before joining the Department of English at UBC as an I.W. Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 1989. He was appointe...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Poetry And Poetics | Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Medieval And Early Modern Literatures | Modernist And Twentieth-Century Literatures
Marlene Briggs
Marlene Briggs
Assistant Professor
phone604 822 4088
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Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies | War And Conflict StudiesI completed my PhD in English Literature at the University of Ottawa and I held a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship in the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University before I joined the department of English at the University of British Columbia. I focus on war and conflict in my interdisciplinary...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies | War And Conflict Studies
Mary Chapman
emailMary.Chapman@ubc.ca
phone604 822 5120
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Thematic Research Area
Asian Diaspora Studies | Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Poetry And PoeticsMary Chapman (B.A. Queen’s, M.A. Queen’s, Ph.D. Cornell) is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada. She specializes in American literature and transnational American Studies; suffrage literature and activism; women’s poetry; periodicals; digital human...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Asian Diaspora Studies | Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Poetry And PoeticsPeriod/Nation Research Area
Canadian Literatures | Modernist And Twentieth-Century Literatures | United States Literatures
ON LEAVE
September 1, 2024 - August 31, 2025
Michael Zeitlin
phone604 822 4018
Thematic Research Area
War And Conflict StudiesPh.D., University of Toronto, 1988. "Faulkner and Ulysses: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry."
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia, 1989-90.
My main areas of interest include transatlantic modernism, the fiction and screenplays of Willia...Read more
Thematic Research Area
War And Conflict Studies
Miguel Mota
Miguel Mota (MA, PhD, Queen’s University) writes and teaches in the following areas: post-1945 British literature, with emphasis on the Thatcher years; the relationship between print and film cultures, and image and text more generally, with focus on the status and function of screenplays as print...Read more
Miranda Burgess
emailmirandab@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 5549
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Environmental Humanities | Poetry And Poetics | Science And Technology StudiesI specialize in British and Irish Romantic-period writing (i.e. writing from the period 1780-1840) and in the history and theory of feeling, mobility, media/mediation, and literary form. My first book, British Fiction and the Production of Social Order, 1740-1830, was published by Cambridge Universi...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Environmental Humanities | Poetry And Poetics | Science And Technology StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Romantic, Victorian And Nineteenth-Century Literatures
Mo Pareles
Dr. Pareles (they+) is a medievalist whose interests include Old and Middle English literature, translation, temporalities, critical animal studies, and Jewish-Christian relations.
Their first book, Nothing Pure: Jewish Law, Christian Supersession, and Bible Translation in Old English (University o...Read more
Period/Nation Research Area
Medieval And Early Modern Literatures
Nancy Frelick
Nancy Frelick
Associate Professor
emailNancy.Frelick@ubc.ca
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Poetry And PoeticsNancy Frelick is associate professor of French Renaissance Literature and English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia where she has been teaching since 1990. She is the author of the book Délie as Other: Toward a Poetics of Desire in Scève’s Délie (French Forum, 19...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Poetry And PoeticsPeriod/Nation Research Area
Medieval And Early Modern Literatures
Pamela Dalziel
phone604 822 5408
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Poetry And PoeticsMy research specialization is Victorian literature and culture. I am particularly interested in illustration and visual cultures, aesthetics, ethics, religion, gender, textual criticism (scholarly editing), and the production of culture-texts (texts, such as Dickens’s A Christmas Carol and Carroll...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Gender And Sexuality Studies | Poetry And PoeticsPeriod/Nation Research Area
Romantic, Victorian And Nineteenth-Century Literatures
Patricia Badir
emailpatribad@mail.ubc.ca
phone822 5603
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Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media StudiesI am a specialist in Renaissance drama and poetry with a particular interest in religious writing. I have a secondary interest in early twentieth-century Canadian theatre. My book, The Maudlin Impression: English Literary Images of Mary Magdalene, 1550-1700, was published by the University of Notre...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies
Phanuel Antwi
Phanuel Antwi
Canada Research Chair in Black Arts and Epistemologies and Associate Professor
emailPhanuel.Antwi@ubc.ca
Phanuel Antwi is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures. In 2022 he was named Canada Research Chair in Black Arts and Epistemologies. He writes, researches, and teaches critical black studies; settler colonial studies; black Atlantic and diaspora studies; Canadi...Read more
Ramesh Mallipeddi
Ramesh Mallipeddi
Associate Professor | Editor, Eighteenth-Century Studies
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Thematic Research Area
Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Environmental Humanities | Science And Technology StudiesI’m an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures. My research on sentimentalism, transatlantic slavery, and the British empire has appeared in Eighteenth-Century Studies, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, and ELH. My monograph, Spectacular Suffe...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Environmental Humanities | Science And Technology StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Restoration And Eighteenth-Century Literatures
Richard Cavell
Richard Cavell
Professor
emailr.cavell@ubc.ca
phone604 822 2147
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Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media StudiesMy teaching, research, and supervisions are in the area of media theory. In addition to media studies, I have published broadly, on Italian Futurism, Cold War cultural politics, sexuality and nationalism, media anthropology, and West Coast modern architecture. My most recent book, The Explorations of Edmund Snow Carpenter: Anthropology Upside Down, received the McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book of 2024 from the Media Ecology Association, and my first book, McLuhan in Space (UTP 2002), will be published in translation by the Communication University Press (Beijing) in 2026. Co-founder of the Bachelor of Media Studies Program, I regularly teach ENGL 232, “Media Anthropology,” and most recently co-taught a graduate course on “Media and Misinformation.” My latest doctoral supervisions were on lyric poetry from print to Web 2.0 (UBC) and a co-supervision on the ontology of sound (TU Delft NL)....Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies
Robert Rouse
Robert Rouse
Associate Professor
emailRobert.Rouse@ubc.ca
I have taught in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia since 2005, after studying and teaching in the United Kingdom. My own research has been primarily concerned with medieval romance (both Arthurian and non-Arthurian), writing on issues of histori...Read more
Period/Nation Research Area
Medieval And Early Modern Literatures
Sandra Tomc
emailtomc@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 4097
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Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media StudiesSandra Tomc is a filmmaker and scholar of nineteenth-century US literature and print culture. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century book and magazine history, romantic authorship, the gothic, especially Edgar Allan Poe, transatlantic fashion, and visual culture. Her most recent book, Fashion Na...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Romantic, Victorian And Nineteenth-Century Literatures | United States Literatures
Siân Echard
emailSian.Echard@ubc.ca
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media StudiesI completed my graduate work at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto in 1990, and have been at UBC since then. I am a medievalist and a book historian. My interests include twelfth-century Anglo-Latin literature, particular Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britannie; A...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Medieval And Early Modern Literatures
ON LEAVE
September 1, 2024 - August 31, 2025
Stefan Dollinger
phone604 822 4095
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Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Contemporary Linguistics | Historical Linguistics | Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesStefan is interested in the connection of language and identity, broadly construed, which he most often explores from the vantage points of sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, dialectology and lexicography. He has published monographs on Canadian English, Austrian German and other non-dominant...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Contemporary Linguistics | Historical Linguistics | Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Canadian Literatures
Stephen Guy-Bray, F.R.S.C.
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I specialize in poetics, Renaissance poetry, and queer theory. My most recent monograph is Line Endings in Renaissance Poetry (2022). I have two chapters in collections forthcoming: one on asexual aesthetics and one of queer parataxis. I’m now writing a book on the question of subject matter in ...Read more
Period/Nation Research Area
Medieval And Early Modern Literatures
Stephen Partridge
My main areas of interest are Middle English manuscripts, authorship, and Chaucer. In several publications I have contributed to the ongoing, collaborative (though only sometimes formally so) effort to describe more accurately and to contextualize Middle English manuscripts. I have a particular inte...Read more
Period/Nation Research Area
Medieval And Early Modern Literatures
Suzy Anger
emailSuzy.Anger@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4539
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Thematic Research Area
Science And Technology StudiesMy writing and teaching focus on Victorian literature in relation to nineteenth-century science, psychology, and philosophy. I am currently working on a project that investigates Victorian fiction and nineteenth-century theories of consciousness. It considers the novels of Thomas Hardy, Charles Dick...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Science And Technology StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Romantic, Victorian And Nineteenth-Century Literatures
Tolulope Akinwole
Tolulope Akinwole
Assistant Professor
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Dr. Akinwole’s teaching and research coalesce around African literatures, African screen media, cultural and critical theory, global Black literatures, urban studies, infrastructure studies, and Black geographies. He is associate editor at Africanwriter.com, an online magazine of contemporary Afri...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media Studies | Critical Race Studies And Black Studies | Environmental Humanities | Post/Anti/Decolonial StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Global Literatures
Vin Nardizzi
emailnardizzi@mail.ubc.ca
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Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Poetry And Poetics | Science And Technology StudiesI specialize in English Renaissance literature and Shakespeare. I also have research interests in ecotheory, plant studies, queer studies, and disability studies.
My first book, Wooden Os: Shakespeare’s Theatres and England’s Trees (University of Toronto Press, 2013; reprint 2017), brings ...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Poetry And Poetics | Science And Technology StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Medieval And Early Modern LiteraturesLeadership Team
Alice Te Punga Somerville
emailHead.English@ubc.ca
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Thematic Research Area
Indigenous Literary And Cultural StudiesProfessor Alice Te Punga Somerville (Māori – Te Āti Awa, Taranaki) joined the UBC Department of English Language and Literatures in 2022. She holds a joint appointment with the UBC Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies. She has previously taught in New Zealand, Australia and Hawai’i. Pro...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Indigenous Literary And Cultural Studies
Laura Moss
emailLaura.Moss@ubc.ca
Laura Moss (BA, U of Toronto; MA U of Guelph, PhD Queen’s U) is Professor of English at UBC where she teaches Canadian and postcolonial literatures, particularly those of Africa. Her current research project is on “Climate Warnings: The Power of Canadian Environmental Art, Literature, and Creat...Read more
Miguel Mota
Miguel Mota (MA, PhD, Queen’s University) writes and teaches in the following areas: post-1945 British literature, with emphasis on the Thatcher years; the relationship between print and film cultures, and image and text more generally, with focus on the status and function of screenplays as print...Read more
Sandra Tomc
emailtomc@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 4097
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Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media StudiesSandra Tomc is a filmmaker and scholar of nineteenth-century US literature and print culture. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century book and magazine history, romantic authorship, the gothic, especially Edgar Allan Poe, transatlantic fashion, and visual culture. Her most recent book, Fashion Na...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Book History, Digital Humanities and Media StudiesPeriod/Nation Research Area
Romantic, Victorian And Nineteenth-Century Literatures | United States LiteraturesPostdoctoral Fellows
Alexa Manuel
Alexa Manuel
Postdoctoral Fellow
emailalexa.manuel@ubc.ca
Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Indigenous Literary And Cultural Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studiesiskʷist capqʷícyaʔ, kn‿Syilx uɬ St'at'imc. My name is Alexa capqʷícyaʔ Manuel, I am from the Syilx and St’at’imc nations.
I completed my doctoral studies in March 2024. My dissertation, titled “Stories of Lands, Bodies and Dreams: A tmixwcentric Literary Theory”, proposes a li...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Gender And Sexuality Studies | Indigenous Literary And Cultural Studies | Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies
Lauren Cullen
emailLauren.Cullen@ubc.ca
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I am a Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English Language and Literatures at UBC.
My research is located at the intersection of nineteenth-century literature, animal studies, and the environmental humanities, with broader interests spa...Read more
Period/Nation Research Area
Canadian Literatures | Romantic, Victorian And Nineteenth-Century LiteraturesDepartment Head – Alice Te Punga Somerville
Associate Head, Grad – Sandra Tomc
Associate Head, Undergraduate – Miguel Mota
Associate Head, Curriculum (Glenn Deer)
Graduate Office
– Masters Advisor – Suzy Anger
– TA Coordinator – Ian Hill
Undergraduate Office
– Honours Coordinator – Siân Echard
– Majors Advisor, Language – Jessica de Villiers
– Majors Advisor, Literature – Laura Moss
– First-Year English Coordinator – Suzanne James
– 200-level Courses Coordinator – Suzanne James
– Awards Coordinator – Tiffany Potter