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Alumni, Student
Alumna Q&A with Catherine Slamka (BA 2023)
November 25, 2024
Achievement
Congratulations, UBC EL&L Class of 2024!
November 25, 2024
Faculty
Professor Emeritus Paul Stanwood, 1933 – November 14 2024
November 25, 2024
Achievement, Student
2024 EL&L Undergraduate Scholarship Winners
November 1, 2024
Faculty
Know Your Profs with Dr. Gisèle Baxter
October 30, 2024
Alumni
Alumna Q&A with Jade Standing (PhD 2020)
October 17, 2024
Faculty
Know Your Profs with Dr. Tolu Akinwole
September 24, 2024
Alumni, Faculty, Research
A Different Kind of Reading: Storylistening with Dr. Alexa Manuel
September 18, 2024
10 Texts by Indigenous Authors of BC to Read for Orange Shirt Day
September 13, 2024
Faculty
Know Your Profs with Dr. Laura Moss
September 5, 2024
Achievement, Announcement, Faculty
Dr. Barbara Dancygier Elected to The Royal Society of Canada
September 3, 2024
Announcement, Spotlight
UBC English Language & Literatures Welcomes New Department Head Dr. Alice Te Punga Somerville
August 26, 2024
Announcement, Faculty
UBC EL&L Welcomes Global Black Literatures Scholar Dr. Tolulope Akinwole
August 21, 2024
Faculty
Professor Emeritus Errol Durbach, 1941 - 2024
July 22, 2024
Achievement, Announcement, Student
Announcing 2023/2024 UBC EL&L Undergraduate Awards Winners
July 8, 2024
Achievement, Faculty, Research
EL&L Faculty Dr. Kimberly Bain and Dr. Danielle Wong Win 2024 SSHRC Insight Development Grants
July 3, 2024
Announcement, Faculty
Professor Emeritus Tony Dawson, 1941 - 2024
June 19, 2024
Achievement, Announcement, Research
UBC Library | Meet CJ McGillivray, recipient of the UBC Undergraduate Prize in Library Research
June 18, 2024
Student
2024/2025 EL&L Courses to Enrich Your Life
June 7, 2024
Achievement, Announcement, Research
UBC Library | Meet Diana Andrews, recipient of the UBC Undergraduate Prize in Library Research
June 5, 2024
Achievement, Alumni, Student
Congratulations, EL&L Class of 2024!
May 21, 2024
Faculty
Professor Emeritus John Cooper, 1944 – 2024
April 30, 2024
Faculty, Research
On data collection and standard languages – a conversation with Dr. Stefan Dollinger
April 2, 2024
Dr. Stefan Dollinger Awarded 2024 Killam Faculty Research Prize
March 21, 2024
Achievement, Announcement, Faculty, Publication
Dr. J. Logan Smilges Wins 2024 Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship
March 7, 2024
Publication, Research
Publication | Nothing Pure: a new book Q&A with Dr. Mo Pareles
February 16, 2024
Announcement, Faculty
Professor Emerita Sneja Gunew, 1946-2024
January 17, 2024
Faculty, Spotlight
Know Your Profs with Dr. James Stratton
December 4, 2023
Event Highlight, Research
Looking Back to Move Forward: Insights from the Shakespeare Symposium
November 27, 2023
Achievement, Announcement, Faculty
Professor Daniel Heath Justice Named Distinguished University Scholar
November 7, 2023
Faculty
Professor Emeritus S. Warren Stevenson, September 20, 1933 - August 28, 2023
September 8, 2023
Announcement
2023/2024 Updates from UBC English Language & Literatures
September 4, 2023
Announcement, Faculty
Scholar and Writer Dr. Jordy Rosenberg Joins UBC English Language & Literatures
August 28, 2023
Research
Public Scholars Initiative: Diagnosis Grad School with PhD Candidate Olivia Dreisinger
August 22, 2023
Dr. Mary Chapman and Sydney Lines | How Hollywood’s First Asian Screenwriter, Winnifred Eaton, Challenged its Racism
August 20, 2023
Spotlight
2023/2024 English Language & Literatures Courses to Expand Your World
August 18, 2023
Announcement, Faculty
Professor Emeritus Lee M. Johnson, April 22 1944 - July 10 2023
July 20, 2023
Announcement, Faculty
Professors Laurel Brinton, Kate Sirluck, Nick Hudson, and Judy Segal Retire After Decades of Mentoring EL&L Scholars
July 4, 2023
Faculty, Research
The Transformative Power of Improvisation: An Interview with Dr. Kevin McNeilly
June 2, 2023
Achievement, Announcement, Faculty
Dr. Alice Te Punga Somerville Wins Top New Zealand Poetry Prize
May 24, 2023
Achievement, Faculty, Research
Professor Emerita Eva-Marie Kröller Awarded 2023-2024 Harry Ransom Center Fellowship
May 11, 2023
Achievement, Announcement, Faculty, Spotlight
Moberley Luger Wins 2023 Killam Teaching Prize
April 19, 2023
Faculty, Research, Spotlight
Know Your Profs with Dr. Adam Frank
April 18, 2023
Announcement, Faculty
Professor Emeritus John Kieran Kealy, August 5 1939 – March 22 2023
April 11, 2023
Faculty, Publication, Research, Student
“You betcha I’m a ’Merican”: The rise of YOU BET as a pragmatic marker | A Q&A with Dr. Laurel Brinton and PhD Candidate Tomoharu Hirota
April 3, 2023
Faculty, In the Media, Spotlight
Dr. Alice Te Punga Somerville Shortlisted for Top New Zealand Book Award
March 7, 2023
Announcement, Faculty
Remembering Dr. Y-Dang Troeung
December 20, 2022
Faculty, Publication, Research
Prof. James Stratton: The Role of Historical Linguistics in the Second Language Classroom
December 20, 2022
In the Media
Prof. Daniel Heath Justice | In Danielle Smith’s Fantasy Alberta, Indigenous Struggle is Twisted to Suit Settlers
December 20, 2022
Faculty, Research
Dr. Patsy Badir Wins 2022 SSHRC Insight Development Grant for Project on Bardolatry in British Columbia
November 28, 2022
Faculty, Publication, Spotlight
From the Centre in Widening Circles: Alice Te Punga Somerville on Poetry, Humour, and Not Being All the Things
November 24, 2022
In the Media
UBC Library digitizes William Shakespeare’s First Folio
November 21, 2022
Spotlight, Student
Gage Karahkwí:io Diabo: I Think about Residential Schools Every Day
September 24, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight
Know Your Profs with Dr. Dallas Hunt
September 2, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight
Know Your Profs with Dr. Ian Hill
August 16, 2022
Spotlight, Student
2022/2023 English Language and Literature Courses to Expand your World
August 5, 2022
Achievement, Faculty, In the Media, Spotlight
Professor Emerita Eva-Marie Kröller Appointed to the Order of Canada
July 8, 2022
Announcement, Faculty, Research
Department of English Language & Literatures 2022 SSHRC Grant Winners
June 20, 2022
Announcement, Spotlight
Prepare for Teacher Education with the New Minor in English
June 14, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight
Dr. Laurie McNeill receives Award for Outstanding Service from the International Center for Academic Integrity
June 13, 2022
Announcement, Faculty, Spotlight
UBC Department of English Language & Literatures Welcomes Drs. Logan Smilges and James Stratton
June 10, 2022
Announcement, Faculty, Research, Spotlight
Dr. Phanuel Antwi named New Canada Research Chair in Black Arts and Epistemologies
June 2, 2022
Achievement
Congratulations, EL&L Class of 2022!
May 27, 2022
Achievement, Announcement, Spotlight, Student
UBC EL&L PhD Candidate Torin McLachlan Wins Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
May 9, 2022
Achievement, Faculty, Spotlight
UBC EL&L Prof. Miranda Burgess Awarded Killam Teaching Prize
May 9, 2022
Event Highlight, Spotlight
EVENT RECORDING: Climate Warnings: The Power of Canadian Environmental Art, Literature, and Creative Activism with Dr. Laura Moss
March 18, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight
Know Your Profs with Dr. Elizabeth Hodgson
March 7, 2022
Announcement, Spotlight
Happy Retirement, Angela Kaija!
March 2, 2022
Research, Spotlight, Student
Black Writers and Critics You Should Know About, According to EL&L Grad Students
February 17, 2022
Faculty, In the Media, Research, Spotlight
Prof. Dennis Austin Britton: Black People’s Relationship with Shakespeare is Complicated
February 11, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight
Meet four Black scholars leading innovative research in the Faculty of Arts
February 1, 2022
Announcement, Faculty, In the Media, Spotlight
William Shakespeare’s First Folio published in 1623 gifted to UBC Library
January 12, 2022
Faculty, In the Media, Research, Spotlight
Professor Stephen Guy-Bray Elected to the Royal Society of Canada
January 10, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight
Listening for Echos: Bridging Community and Classroom Practices with Professor Phanuel Antwi
December 16, 2021
Announcement, Faculty
UBC Department of English Language and Literatures Welcomes Dr. Alice Te Punga Somerville
December 14, 2021
Faculty, Spotlight
Know Your Profs with Dr. Barbara Dancygier
December 13, 2021
Faculty, Research, Spotlight
Rewarding integrity: Changing the conversation on cheating with Prof. Laurie McNeill
December 7, 2021
Faculty, Spotlight
Know Your Profs with Dr. Ramesh Mallipeddi
November 18, 2021
Research, Spotlight
Introducing the 2021/2022 English Language and Literatures Postdoctoral Fellows
October 4, 2021
Faculty, Spotlight
Know Your Profs with Dr. Kimberly Bain
October 1, 2021
Announcement
Memes, Pop-up Books, and Racial Capitalism: 2021/2022 courses you should know about
July 16, 2021
Announcement
Introducing the newest faculty of the Department of English Language and Literatures
July 2, 2021
Announcement
Town Hall for Prospective Students
March 12, 2021
Announcement
7th Annual ESA Colloquium
March 10, 2021
Event Highlight
The Tragedy of Irene - Virtual Performance
March 1, 2021
Event Highlight
A Fireside Chat with Margaret Price
February 25, 2021
Announcement
Beyond the Degree: An Interview with Jianna Faner (BA Honours '18)
February 24, 2021
Announcement
Beyond the Degree: English Careers in the Real World
February 12, 2021
Writing the Empire: The McIlwraiths, 1853–1948
January 1, 2021
Modernism and the Idea of the Crowd
December 17, 2020
Announcement
Disentangling Indigenous Stories
December 14, 2020
Announcement
Perspectives from Graduate Students Series
December 1, 2020
Announcement
Fascinating English Literature courses to consider for Term 2
November 25, 2020
Announcement
Reimagining the refugee narrative
November 19, 2020
Event Highlight
Speaker Series - Victoria Coulson
November 2, 2020
Event Highlight
Applying to Graduate School: A Series of discussions, information, and workshops
October 22, 2020
Oroonoko
October 16, 2020
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Eliza Haywood
October 16, 2020
UBC President’s Excellence Chair in Network Cultures
October 1, 2020
ENGL 362-002
September 28, 2020
ENGL 331-001
September 28, 2020
Announcement
Scholar Strike
September 8, 2020
Announcement
Congratulations to Angela Kaija for winning a UBC President’s Staff Award!
September 3, 2020
Event Highlight
Imagine Week 2020
August 28, 2020
Career Webinars
August 21, 2020
Announcement
Our Honours Program
August 20, 2020
ENGL 372 -001
August 20, 2020
Announcement
Online Teaching Survey
July 20, 2020
Announcement
Welcoming Four New Faculty
July 10, 2020
Announcement
Registering for 2020W?
July 9, 2020
Announcement
Visiting Speakers Series - A. Naomi Paik
July 7, 2020
ENGL 244-001
July 7, 2020
ENGL 224-001
July 6, 2020
ENGL 231-001
July 6, 2020
ENGL 332-002
July 5, 2020
ENGL 223-002
July 2, 2020
ENGL 353-001
July 2, 2020
ENGL 248-001
July 1, 2020
ENGL 490-004
June 24, 2020
ENGL 111-001
June 24, 2020
ENGL 368-002
June 23, 2020
Research
ENGL 392-003
June 23, 2020
Research
ENGL 392-001
June 22, 2020
ENGL 323-001
June 22, 2020
ENGL 355-001
June 22, 2020
ENGL 100-050
June 22, 2020
ENGL 392-002
June 22, 2020
ENGL 492L-001
June 21, 2020
Announcement
Fairclough Teaching Prize, 2020
June 18, 2020
ENGL 490-001
June 16, 2020
Alumni
Words from our Alumni
June 16, 2020
ENGL 246-001
June 15, 2020
ENGL 492M-002
June 14, 2020
Announcement
Statement of Solidarity Against Anti-Black Violence
June 11, 2020
Announcement
Dean of Arts Award, 2020
June 4, 2020
Announcement
Graduation 2020
June 2, 2020
Announcement
Read a message from Santa J. Ono in response to recent anti-Black and anti-Asian violence
June 2, 2020
Announcement
Department of English Language and Literatures Courses Online, Fall 2020
May 28, 2020
Speechsong - The Gould/Schoenberg Dialogues
May 27, 2020
Announcement
News from the Dean of Arts about 2020 Winter Term 1
May 15, 2020
Announcement
Double Specialization
May 6, 2020
Announcement
Killam Teaching Prize, 2019-2020
May 4, 2020
Announcement
Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
April 27, 2020
Announcement
A video introduction to English Majors and Honours
April 14, 2020
Announcement
2020 Summer Courses
April 8, 2020
Announcement
Isolation Reading List
March 24, 2020
Announcement
200-level Summer Registration
March 10, 2020
Announcement
Speaker Series: Erika Lin
February 29, 2020
Announcement
Tiffany Potter Wins 3M Teaching Fellowship Award
February 20, 2020
Event Highlight
The Poetics of Capitalocene Time
February 11, 2020
Announcement
Killam Senior Research Prize Recipient
February 8, 2020
2019 Summer
February 7, 2020
Announcement
Endnotes 2020 CFP
February 7, 2020
Announcement
ESA's Sixth Annual Colloquium
February 7, 2020
Announcement
New Associate Dean of Students
February 6, 2020
Announcement
People of UBC, Julie Walchli
February 5, 2020
Announcement
Celebrating Oecologies: New Work in the Environmental Humanities
January 20, 2020
Announcement
Public Humanities Hub: George Luks, The Yellow Kid and the Comic Grotesque
December 9, 2019
Announcement
Peter Wall Research Scholar Award
November 22, 2019
Announcement
Lind Initiative Seminar: Thinking While Black
November 18, 2019
Announcement
"A Queer Century: 1869-1969" Exhibit
November 18, 2019
Historians on John Gower
November 15, 2019
Ovidian Transversions, ‘Iphis and Ianthe’, 1300-1650
November 5, 2019
Announcement
Unsteady Time: Jane Austen’s Last Work and Family Legacy
November 5, 2019
Announcement
Assistant Professor, tenure-track – African / Black Diaspora Studies
November 5, 2019
Event Highlight, Faculty
Dr. Laura Moss on Congress 2019
November 4, 2019
Announcement
Associate/ Full Professor - Canadian Literature
October 30, 2019
Announcement
ENGL 351-002
October 25, 2019
Announcement
President's Excellence Chair in Network Cultures
October 22, 2019
Announcement
At the Vancouver Writer's Festival
October 22, 2019
Announcement
Why Humanity Needs the Humanities Now
October 22, 2019
Announcement
ENGL 200
October 21, 2019
Announcement
ENGL 348-004
October 21, 2019
Announcement
President’s Excellence Chair in Network Cultures
October 18, 2019
Announcement
ENGL 348-002
October 16, 2019
Announcement
Speaker Series: Nathan Hensley
September 26, 2019
Announcement
Climate Action - Making an Impact
September 24, 2019
Announcement
Humanities for the People
September 17, 2019
News and Events
September 17, 2019
Courses
September 16, 2019
New Curriculum
September 16, 2019
Announcement
Majors and Honours
September 16, 2019
Announcement
Graduate
September 16, 2019
Announcement
Fairclough Teaching Prize 2019
September 9, 2019
Announcement
ENGL 342-001
August 30, 2019
Twelve-Month Lecturer (non-tenure track)
August 28, 2019
Announcement
ENGL 247-001
August 4, 2019
Announcement
ENGL 348-003
July 30, 2019
Announcement
New Courses of Interest
July 30, 2019
Creating Canadian English: The Professor, the Mountaineer, and a National Variety of English
July 3, 2019
Announcement
ENGL 361-001
July 3, 2019
Announcement
ENGL 382-001
July 2, 2019
Announcement
ENGL 360-001
July 2, 2019
Announcement
ENGL 375-001
June 29, 2019
Announcement
ENGL 370
June 29, 2019
Announcement
ENGL 248
June 28, 2019
Announcement
ENGL 393
June 27, 2019
The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction
June 26, 2019
Announcement
ENGL 222-004
June 26, 2019
Instagram
June 25, 2019
Announcement
ENGL 373
June 24, 2019
Announcement
ENGL 327
June 24, 2019
Announcement
ENGL 364
June 24, 2019
Announcement
ENGL 348-001
June 23, 2019
The Pluricentricity Debate
June 20, 2019
Beautiful Untrue Things: Forging Oscar Wilde’s Extraordinary Afterlife
June 20, 2019
Announcement
A Conversation with Prof. Richard Cavell
June 18, 2019
Announcement
The Garden Statuary
June 7, 2019
Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary Imagination
June 3, 2019
Announcement
ENGL 324-001
June 3, 2019
Announcement
Beyond the Bard
May 30, 2019
Canadian Literature
May 29, 2019
Announcement
Student Involvement
May 25, 2019
Announcement
Congress 2019: Circles of Conversation
May 23, 2019
Announcement
Congress 2019 - Catching up with the Academic Convenor
May 23, 2019
Sessional Teaching, 2019-2020
May 3, 2019
Announcement
Rebecca Sheppard receives Killam Teaching Assistant Award
April 11, 2019
Announcement
Modern-day Spin on Timeless Techniques of Mobilization
March 27, 2019
Announcement
2019 UBC Honorary Degree Recipient
March 27, 2019
Job Posting: Assistant Professor without Review
March 7, 2019
Announcement
Research in the English Language
March 7, 2019
Event Highlight
Speaker Series, 2019-2020
February 7, 2019
Announcement
The End of the LPI
January 21, 2019
Announcement
Why Indigenous Literatures Matter
January 21, 2019
Announcement
Endnotes Conference CFP 2019
January 18, 2019
Announcement
Dean's Award for Staff Excellence 2018
December 23, 2018
Announcement
Fairclough Teaching Prize, 2013-2014
December 19, 2018
Announcement
Dangerous Drugs: Doctors, Pain and the Politics of Blame
November 29, 2018
Oldness; or, the Last-Ditch Efforts of Marcus O
November 29, 2018
Announcement
Fall Graduation: English
November 28, 2018
Announcement
Recruitment Survey - Graduate Students
October 23, 2018
Announcement
Visiting Speaker Series 2018-2019
October 9, 2018
Announcement
2018 Fairclough Prize
September 28, 2018
Announcement
Daniel Justice: Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
September 19, 2018
Announcement
The Tao of Right and Wrong
September 18, 2018
Advocating Weapons, War, and Terrorism
September 18, 2018
Announcement
Welcome Back to English!
September 16, 2018
Announcement
Canadian Art Writing Prize
September 7, 2018
Announcement
Frankenreads: Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
September 1, 2018
ENGLISH MAJORS PROGRAM: LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
August 31, 2018
Announcement
Imagine Day 2018
August 31, 2018
Announcement
Remembering Kate McInturff, who wielded love of big data for gender equality
August 29, 2018
Announcement
Job Postings - Several Positions Available
August 28, 2018
Job Posting: Assistant Professor (tenure track) – Media Studies
August 27, 2018
Job Posting: Assistant Professor (tenure-track) - Contemporary and Historical English Linguistics
August 27, 2018
The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics
July 30, 2018
Announcement
The President’s Medal of Excellence
June 19, 2018
Announcement
Sounding Promise in the Present Tense: Improvising Through Turbulent Times
June 19, 2018
Announcement
Sessional Teaching 2018-2019
June 1, 2018
Announcement
Planning Canada’s Biggest Conference, Congress 2019
May 21, 2018
ADVA
May 10, 2018
Research Now: Contemporary Writing in the Disciplines
May 6, 2018
Announcement
Killam Teaching Prize Winner
April 16, 2018
Announcement
Dr. Edgar Wickberg Book Prize
April 16, 2018
2017 Winter
April 13, 2018
Announcement
The Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlist
April 13, 2018
Announcement
Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award Winner
April 9, 2018
Better Nature
April 3, 2018
Announcement
Garnett Sedgewick Memorial Fund
March 28, 2018
Announcement
What Grads Have Done with Their UBC English Degree
March 17, 2018
Announcement
English Majors & Honours Info Session
March 16, 2018
English Majors & Honours Info Session
March 16, 2018
Announcement
2018 Solmsen Fellowship Recipient
March 16, 2018
Announcement
Katrina Sellinger Guest Editor of The Capilano Review
March 12, 2018
Announcement
2018 Dorothy Black Lecture for First Years
March 12, 2018
Announcement
2018 Garnett Sedgewick Lecture
March 1, 2018
Announcement
Visiting Speaker: Lisa Moore
February 26, 2018
Announcement
Visiting Speaker: Jonathan Culpeper
February 26, 2018
The History of English
February 8, 2018
Announcement
Endnotes 2018 Conference
January 18, 2018
Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain
December 14, 2017
Post-Personal Romanticism
December 12, 2017
The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers in English
December 12, 2017
Announcement
Our latest Rhodes Scholar
December 8, 2017
Announcement
Our Undergraduate Programs
November 28, 2017
GRADUATE STUDIES IN ENGLISH
November 22, 2017
ENGLISH HONOURS PROGRAM
November 20, 2017
ENGLISH MINOR PROGRAM
November 20, 2017
ENGLISH MAJOR PROGRAM: LANGUAGE
November 20, 2017
ENGLISH MAJOR PROGRAM: LITERATURE
November 20, 2017
Announcement
2017 Fairclough Teaching Prize Recipient
November 17, 2017
Announcement
Pleasure for Pleasure’s Sake? On Pierre Joseph Proudhon’s “Pornocracy” Today
October 16, 2017
Announcement
ESA Meet the Profs
October 11, 2017
Announcement
Disrupting Power: Women's Fiction
October 10, 2017
Announcement
2017 Summer
October 3, 2017
Pizarro, Richard Brinsley Sheridan
September 29, 2017
English Historical Linguistics, Approaches and Perspectives
September 28, 2017
Friedman House, SALA Modern House Series
September 28, 2017
Announcement
Entertainment Hall of Fame's Recent Inductee
September 28, 2017
Announcement
Finalist for Governor General's Award
September 20, 2017
Announcement
Pilot Initiative: Indigenous Critical and Creative Studies
September 18, 2017
Announcement
Welcome/Welcome Back to English 2017!
September 18, 2017
Announcement
2017 Royal Society Fellow
September 15, 2017
Announcement
An Unmatched Devotion: A 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Colbeck Collection
September 15, 2017
Sessional Teaching for Term 2 of 2017-2018 Academic Year
September 11, 2017
Announcement
UBC to host the American Women Writers Reading Group
September 11, 2017
Announcement
Visiting Speaker: Richard Godden
September 3, 2017
Announcement
Imagine UBC 2017
September 3, 2017
Announcement
Apply for Arts Co-op
September 1, 2017
Assistant Professor (tenure track)
August 25, 2017
Announcement
Lines of Flight: Improvisation, Hope and Refuge
June 19, 2017
Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-cosmopolitan Mediators
June 16, 2017
Posthumanism: A Guide for the Perplexed
June 2, 2017
Graduation May 2017
May 25, 2017
2016 Winter
May 18, 2017
Announcement
Governor General's Gold Medal Recipient
May 10, 2017
Announcement
Teaching Arthurian Literature in the Texas Panhandle
May 9, 2017
First-Year English Coordinator (12-month Lecturer) INTERNAL POSTING
May 1, 2017
Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature, 2nd edn.
May 1, 2017
Announcement
Endnotes 2017 Conference
May 1, 2017
Announcement
Spotlight on: Killam Postdoctoral Research Prize Winner
April 21, 2017
Announcement
Killam Graduate Teaching Award
April 21, 2017
Sessional Teaching Positions 2017S and 2017W
April 6, 2017
Announcement
The New Edition of the Dictionary of Canadianisms
March 10, 2017
Announcement
Lawrence Hill: What Business Has Fiction in Politics?
March 9, 2017
Announcement
Summer Registration Starts March 7
March 4, 2017
Announcement
English Major and English Honours Program: Information Session
March 1, 2017
Announcement
Votes for Women
March 1, 2017
Announcement
The Word, Winter 2017
January 27, 2017
David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books
January 27, 2017
Announcement
Jane Austen Exhibit at the UBC Library
January 20, 2017
Announcement
English Language and Linguistics
January 13, 2017
Announcement
Apply to Present at Endnotes 2017!
December 30, 2016
Becoming Sun Sui Far
December 20, 2016
Announcement
December 8, 2016
Announcement
Brown-bag Series: Careers for English Graduates
December 2, 2016
Remediating McLuhan
November 24, 2016
Announcement
Canadian Literature 227
November 17, 2016
Canadian Women and the Literary Arts
November 4, 2016
Announcement
Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case
October 18, 2016
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
October 4, 2016
Announcement
Highly Commended Paper 2016 - The Undergraduate Awards
October 4, 2016
Science and Technology Studies (STS)
September 28, 2016
Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Institute
September 28, 2016
International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation
September 27, 2016
Critical Studies in Improvisation
September 27, 2016
Gertrude Stein Society
September 26, 2016
Editing Modernism in Canada
September 26, 2016
Cognition and Poetics Research Cluster
September 26, 2016
Announcement
Digital Salon
September 26, 2016
The Affect Project
September 26, 2016
The English Language: A Linguistic History
September 23, 2016
Early Modern Conversions
September 23, 2016
Oecologies
September 21, 2016
Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory: Paper Speaking
September 21, 2016
Autism in Context: Theory and Experience
September 21, 2016
Announcement
Short Story Longlisted for Journey Prize
September 20, 2016
2016 Summer
September 12, 2016
Marshall McLuhan: On the Nature of Media
September 9, 2016
Announcement
Sui Sin Far and Onoto Watanna Exhibition
September 7, 2016
Virginia Woolf
August 31, 2016
Announcement
Gregory Mackie on Rare Hand-printed Victorian Chaucer
August 24, 2016
Event Highlight, Student
ENGL 492C-003: Popular Festival and the Critique of Aristocracy in Tudor and Stuart Drama - Katherine Sirluck
July 22, 2016
Event Highlight, Student
ENGL 492B-002: Story-telling Then and Now - Pamela Dalziel
July 22, 2016
Event Highlight, Student
ENGL 492A-001: Literature and the Blues - Jerry Wasserman
July 22, 2016
Event Highlight, Student
ENGL 491D-004: New Masses: Modernism and Crowds - Judith Paltin
July 22, 2016
Event Highlight, Student
ENGL 491C-003: Literature and Theories of Debt, Gift, and Commons - Jeffrey Severs
July 22, 2016
Event Highlight, Student
ENGL 491B-002: The Ecological Turn in Theory and Literature - Deena Rymhs
July 22, 2016
Event Highlight, Student
ENGL 491A-001: 9/11: Trauma, Texts, and Story - Ira Nadel
July 22, 2016
Event Highlight, Student
ENGL 490-011: The suburbs - Miranda Burgess
July 22, 2016
Event Highlight, Student
ENGL 490-010: Cli-Fi: Climate Fiction, or How Do We Witness Disaster? - Robert Rouse
July 22, 2016
Event Highlight, Student
ENGL 490-007: Early Modern Science and Literature - Dennis Danielson
July 22, 2016
Event Highlight, Student
ENGL 490-006: Writing in the Age of the Camera - Glenn Deer
July 22, 2016
Announcement, Event Highlight, Student
ENGL 490-005: Revolution in Modern American Poetry 1910-1945 - Mary Chapman
July 22, 2016
Event Highlight, Student
ENGL 490-004: Black Noise: Cultures of the African Diaspora - Phanuel Antwi
July 22, 2016
Event Highlight, Student
ENGL 490-003: Captivity Narrative in Eighteenth-Century North America - Tiffany Potter
July 22, 2016
Event Highlight, Student
ENGL 490-002: Seeing Shakespeare - Elizabeth Hodgson
July 22, 2016
Event Highlight, Student
ENGL 490-001: The Mysteries of Identity: Deception and Disguise in Victorian Detective Fiction - Gregory Mackie
July 22, 2016
Event Highlight, Student
ENGL 489-004: Viewpoint Phenomena in Communication - Barbara Dancygier
July 22, 2016
Event Highlight, Student
ENGL 489-001: Rhetoric, New Media and Criticism - Ian Hill
July 22, 2016
Event Highlight, Student
ENGL 211-001: Introduction to Critical Theory and Practice - Alexander Dick
July 22, 2016
Event Highlight, Student
ENGL 210-001: Literary Genres and their Development - Nicholas Hudson
July 22, 2016
ENGL 304-001: Writing in Style - C. Nelson-McDermott
July 20, 2016
ENGL 301-99C: Technical Writing - Erika Paterson
July 20, 2016
ENGL 301-99A: Technical Communications - Erika Paterson
July 20, 2016
ENGL 301-001: Technical Writing - Gisele M. Baxter
July 20, 2016
ENGL 480-001: Reading Culture Through Food, Cooking and Eating - Glenn Deer
July 20, 2016
ENGL 478A-001: Southern African Literatures: How do Stories Travel? - Laura Moss
July 20, 2016
ENGL 476K-002: Decolonial Love and Resurgence in Indigenous Activist Literature - Dory Nason
July 20, 2016
ENGL 474D-004: Pynchon, DeLillo, Morrison: Dream & Nightmare in Contemporary US Fiction - Jeffrey Severs
July 20, 2016
ENGL 474D-004: Pynchon, DeLillo, Morrison: Dream & Nightmare in Contemporary US Fiction - Jeffrey Severs
July 20, 2016
ENGL 474B-002: Feeling in Time - Adam Frank
July 20, 2016
ENGL 474A-001: Denatured Reading - Kevin McNeilly
July 20, 2016
ENGL 472A-001: Hemingway and Faulkner - Michael Zeitlin
July 20, 2016
ENGL 470A-99A: 'Oh Canada, Our Home on Native Land' - Erika Paterson
July 20, 2016
ENGL 470D-003: #CrazyforCanLit: Canadian Literature and Web 2.0 - Kathryn Grafton
July 20, 2016
ENGL 470B-002: Re-Routing the Black Atlantic - Phanuel Antwi
July 20, 2016
ENGL 470A-001: CanLit Novel Motifs in Dialogue: Individuation, Journey, Rebirth - Brett Grubisic
July 20, 2016
ENGL 468A-99C: Genre and Gender in Children's Texts - Suzanne James
July 20, 2016
ENGL 468A-004: Young Adult Literature in the Age of Surveillance - Rick Gooding
July 20, 2016
ENGL 468A-003: Down the Rabbit Hole: Adventures in Nationhood and Identity in British Fantasy Literature for Children - Sarika Bose
July 20, 2016
ENGL 468A-002: Politicizing the Projected Child Reader - Suzanne James
July 20, 2016
ENGL 468A-001: Seven Ways of Thinking about Fairy Tales - Rick Gooding
July 20, 2016
ENGL 466A-001: The Modernist Long Poem - Ira Nadel
July 20, 2016
ENGL 464A-002: The Poetics of Pop Music - Bo Earle
July 20, 2016
ENGL 464A-001: Women's Writing and Media: From Fordism to Cyber-culture - Judith Paltin
July 20, 2016
ENGL 462A-001: Becket/Joyce/Yeats - Ira Nadel
July 20, 2016
ENGL 419A-001: History of the Book - Richard Cavell
July 20, 2016
ENGL 409K-002: Theory as a 'History of the Present': Theory Boot Camp for New and Old Hands - Lorraine Weir
July 20, 2016
ENGL 406A-003: Posthumanism - Peter Mahon
July 20, 2016
ENGL 406A-001: Fiction in a 'Post-9/11 World' - Moberley Luger
July 20, 2016
ENGL 405A-001: Studies in Drama - Gregory Mackie
July 20, 2016
ENGL 364A-99C: Monsters! Murderers! Secrets and Hidden Lives in Novels of the Victorian Period - Sarika Bose
July 20, 2016
ENGL 364A-003: Making Monsters - 19th-Century Style - Gisèle Baxter
July 20, 2016
ENGL 364A-002: The City in Nineteenth-Century British Literature - Deanna Kreisel
July 18, 2016
ENGL 362-002: Studies in a Nineteenth-Century Genre - Bo Earle
July 18, 2016
ENGL 362-001: The Victorian Fantastic - Suzy Anger
July 18, 2016
ENGL 359B-002: Romantic Worldliness - Miranda Burgess
July 18, 2016
ENGL 359A-001: Romanticism in Ruins - Alexander Dick
July 18, 2016
ENGL 358-002: The Gothic and Its Legacies - Scott MacKenzie
July 18, 2016
ENGL 358-001: Race, Ethnicity, and the British Empire in Eighteenth-Century Literature - Nicholas Hudson
July 18, 2016
ENGL 357M-002: Heroes, Wits and Smut: Eighteenth-Century Theatre - Tiffany Potter
July 18, 2016
ENGL 357K-001: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Scott MacKenzie
July 18, 2016
ENGL 354-001: Milton and the Seventeenth Century - Dennis Danielson
July 18, 2016
ENGL 349A-001: Political Bodies, Political Sex in Seventeenth-Century Literature - Elizabeth Hodgson
July 18, 2016
ENGL 348A-008: Shakespeare and the Renaissance - Katherine Sirluck
July 18, 2016
ENGL 348A-006: Shakespeare and Leadership - Paul Endo
July 18, 2016
ENGL 348A-004: Shakespeare without Drama - Stephen Guy-Bray
July 18, 2016
ENGL 348A-003: Mediatic Shakespeare - Richard Cavell
July 18, 2016
ENGL 348A-001: Persons in Early Shakespeare - Vin Nardizzi
July 18, 2016
ENGL 347B-002: Courting Trouble in the English Renaissance - Elizabeth Hodgson
July 18, 2016
ENGL 347A-001: Love and Sex in Seventeenth-Century Poetry - Stephen Guy-Bray
July 18, 2016
ENGL 346B-002: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: A World of Words and a Sea of Stories - Stephen Partridge
July 18, 2016
ENGL 344B-003: Women Writers of the Middle Ages - Stephen Partridge
July 18, 2016
ENGL 344A-001: Warriors and Wizards at King Arthur's Court - Sian Echard
July 18, 2016
ENGL 332-002: American Telepoetics - Adam Frank
July 18, 2016
ENGL 332-001: Ecologies of the page - Miranda Burgess
July 18, 2016
ENGL 331-002: The Structure of Modern English: Sentences and their Uses - Laurel Brinton
July 15, 2016
ENGL 331-001: Modern English: Sentences and Beyond - Ina Biermann
July 15, 2016
ENGL 330A-99C: Modern English: Sounds and Words - Ina Biermann
July 15, 2016
ENGL 330A-001: Modern English: Sounds and Words - Laurel Brinton
July 15, 2016
ENGL 328-001: Metaphor, Language and Thought - Barbara Dancygier
July 15, 2016
ENGL 322A-001: Language and Style - Ina Biermann
July 15, 2016
ENGL 321-99C: English Grammar and Usage - Ina Biermann
July 15, 2016
ENGL 321-003: English Grammar and Usage - Leslie Arnovick
July 15, 2016
ENGL 321-001: English Grammar and its Uses - Ina Biermann
July 15, 2016
ENGL 319-001: Middle English to the Present Day - Ina Biermann
July 15, 2016
ENGL 312A-001: Discourse and Society - Katherine Power
July 14, 2016
ENGL 311-001: History and Theory of Rhetoric: the Later Theory - Ian Hill
July 14, 2016
ENGL 310-001: How to Win Friends and Influence People - Judy Segal
July 14, 2016
ENGL 309-001: Is John Oliver Right about Everything? - Judy Segal
July 14, 2016
ENGL 307-001: Rhetoric, Revolution and Dissent - Ian Hill
July 14, 2016
ENGL 232-002: Television Studies: Forms of Watching - Kevin McNeilly
July 8, 2016
ENGL 232-001: Approaches to Media Studies - Richard Cavell
July 8, 2016
ENGL 231-001: Indigenous Literatures in Canada - Deena Rymhs
July 8, 2016
ENGL 229E-005: Rhetoric and Power - Ian Hill
July 8, 2016
ENGL 229A-001: Language in Society - Ina Biermann
July 8, 2016
ENGL 227-002: Into the Perilous Realm: Critical Studies in Fantasy - Daniel Justice
July 8, 2016
ENGL 227-001: Our Modern Medieval: George R.R. Martin's *A Song of Ice and Fire* and Contemporary Medievalism - Robert Rouse
July 8, 2016
ENGL 224-006: Memorials, Monuments and Monstrosities - Dina Al-Kassim
July 8, 2016
ENGL 224-005: World Literature in English - Phanuel Antwi
July 8, 2016
ENGL 224-003: The Discursive Other - Duffy Roberts
July 8, 2016
ENGL 223-003: How to Read the American Long Poem - Sarah Parry
July 8, 2016
ENGL 223-002: Protesting America: An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century US Literature - Sandra Tomc
July 8, 2016
ENGL 223-001: Contemporary U.S. Novel - Jeffrey Severs
July 8, 2016
ENGL 222-007: Canadian Literature: From Nature to Ecology - Laura Moss
July 8, 2016
ENGL 222-005: The 'Stories We Tell' Our Children - Laurie McNeill
July 8, 2016
ENGL 222-003: Will the Real CanLit Please Stand Up? - Tara Lee
July 8, 2016
ENGL 222-002: Canadian Literature: Recalling Early Canadians - Phanuel Antwi
July 8, 2016
ENGL 221-008: Literature in Britain: the 18th Century to the Present - Gregory Mackie
July 8, 2016
ENGL 221-011: - Poets and Other Monsters - Kim Trainor
July 8, 2016
ENGL 221-003: Literature in Britain: the 18th Century to the Present - Bo Earle
July 8, 2016
Announcement
ENGL 221-002: Women and Men in the Literary Canon - Rick Gooding
July 8, 2016
ENGL 220-012: Kicking God Off Stage: Literary Form and the Emergence of Humanism - Rick Gooding
July 8, 2016
ENGL 220-011: Social Networks in Renaissance and Medieval England - Elizabeth Hodgson
July 8, 2016
ENGL 220-010: Literature in English to the Eighteenth Century - Stephen Partridge
July 7, 2016
ENGL 220-005: Literature in English to the Eighteenth Century - Scott MacKenzie
July 7, 2016
ENGL 220-004: Sacred and Secular Desire - Kim Trainor
July 7, 2016
ENGL 220-003: Literature in English to the Eighteenth Century - Lorcan Fox
July 7, 2016
ENGL 220-002: Literature in English to the Eighteenth Century - Mo Pareles
July 7, 2016
Announcement
2016 Winter Session Courses
July 7, 2016
ENGL111-002
June 23, 2016
Announcement
2016 Fairclough Teaching Prize Recipient
June 22, 2016
ENGL110-002
June 20, 2016
ENGL110-001
June 17, 2016
Announcement
2016 Killam Teaching Prize Recipient
April 28, 2016
Gabrielle Roy Prize Finalist
April 26, 2016
Announcement
2015 Winter
April 25, 2016
Announcement
2015-2016 Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
April 19, 2016
Announcement
Jack Knowles Wins Siegel/McDaniel Award
April 19, 2016
Announcement
Call for applications: Sessional Lecturer Position
April 18, 2016
Announcement
The Garden Statuary: Thriving in Its 5th Year
April 11, 2016
2015 Summer
April 6, 2016
Announcement
From Up River and For One Night Only
March 31, 2016
Badger
March 29, 2016
Announcement
QS World University Rankings
March 24, 2016
Announcement
Centuries-old medieval manuscripts added to UBC Library collection
March 21, 2016
The Written Questionnaire in Social Dialectology
March 20, 2016
Announcement
Talking about "The (Transgender) Tempest"
March 11, 2016
Announcement
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship
March 10, 2016
Announcement
John Wilson Foster
March 9, 2016
Announcement
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March 9, 2016
2015-2016 Winter Session (Undergraduate Courses)
March 9, 2016
Summer English Courses Offered 2016
February 29, 2016
Cathay: Ezra Pound’s Orient
February 25, 2016
Announcement
The Masqueraders, or Fatal Curiosity and The Surprize, or Constancy Rewarded
February 22, 2016
Transferential Poetics, from Poe to Warhol
February 15, 2016
Literary Land Claims
February 10, 2016
Announcement
Daniel Heath Justice wins UBC Killam Research Prize
February 1, 2016
Making Noise, Making News
January 19, 2016
Announcement
Paradise Lost and the Cosmological Revolution
January 15, 2016
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January 14, 2016
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January 14, 2016
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January 14, 2016
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January 14, 2016
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2005 Winter
January 14, 2016
Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain
January 11, 2016
Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase
January 10, 2016
The Rival Widows or Fair Libertine
January 10, 2016
The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature
January 9, 2016
Announcement
All True Not a Lie in It wins Amazon.ca First Novel Award
January 6, 2016
Paul's Cross and the Culture of Persuasion in England, 1520-1640
January 5, 2016
Marinetti Dines with the High Command
January 2, 2016
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January 2, 2016
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January 1, 2016
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Studies in the History of the English Language VI
January 1, 2016
2011 Summer
December 6, 2015
The Age of Thomas Nashe
December 5, 2015
Faculty, Spotlight
A Response by Chris Lee, Associate Professor
December 2, 2015
Language and the Creative Mind
December 2, 2015
2010 Winter
December 1, 2015
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A Response by Vin Nardizzi, Associate Professor
November 30, 2015
Faculty, Spotlight
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November 30, 2015
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