Faculty

A Response by Vin Nardizzi, Associate Professor

What does it mean to read and study language, literature, and culture in our current location? This question is at the heart of the “Oecologies” project (http://oecologies.com/). Based at UBC in the English Department, many of the cluster’s founding collaborators teach and conduct research in the environmental Humanities.
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–Vin Nardizzi, Associate Professor

A Response by Lucia Lorenzi, Ph.D. English

Graduate students in humanities disciplines such as English often face a number of challenges: how can they conduct research that engages a variety of historical, sociocultural, and political intersections, how can this research be seen as applicable to a wide range of career opportunities, and what role does their work maintain within the university community at large?
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–Lucia Lorenzi, Ph.D. UBC English