Photo of PhD candidate and TA Mentor Robyn Peers from the UBC Department of English Language & Literatures.
Congratulations to EL&L PhD candidate and TA Mentor Robyn Peers on being awarded a 2024/2025 Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award! This award serves as recognition of the valuable role that Graduate Teaching Assistants play in programs and departments across UBC.
Robyn has worked as a teaching assistant for over half a decade with the Department of English Language and Literatures, and she also served as TA Mentor for the 2024/2025 year. Her role as TA Mentor involved coordinating pedagogy workshops and serving as a mentor to all other TAs in the Department.
Outside of her work as a teaching assistant, Robyn’s research examines how scientific discourse around weight and health functions rhetorically to provide a scientific imprimatur to the marginalization of fat people. She highlights how such sanctioning of fatphobia is intertwined with ideology and ethos, taking as her primary objects of study North American health-and-nutrition documentaries from the past two decades. Her additional research areas include book history, digital humanities and media studies, rhetoric, and science and technology studies.
Read more about the 2024/2025 Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award recipients.
