Moberley Luger
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Period/Nation Research Area
Education
PhD, University of British Columbia
About
I 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 and I am exploring pedagogies of poetry, considering methods for incorporating cultural studies of poetry into the classroom. I am also working on several initiatives to promote equity in scholarly communication at UBC, including through the development of my TLEF-funded online teaching resource the PASS (Precedents Archive for Scholarly Speaking). I have articles published in English Studies in Canada, Memory Studies, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Pedagogy, Contemporary Literature, Discourse and Writing/ Rédactologie, College English, and the Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. I am a proud recipient of a 2023 Killam Teaching Prize.
Teaching
Publications
- “Community Engaged Learning in Challenging Contexts: Introducing and Assessing a Flexible Model for CEL in a First Year Cohort Program,” The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Forthcoming. 35 manuscript pages. (with Mathurada Jullamon and Marianne El-Mikati)
- “’Enough of osseous and chickadee’”: Pedagogies of Hate in the Poetry Classroom,” College English. vol 86, no. 4, 2024, pp.280-296
- “Speaking Against Inequity in the Writing Classroom: Challenging the Performance Paradigm for Undergraduate Oral Presentations” (with Craig Stensrud). Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie. Vol. 32, 2022, pp. 335-355.
- “The Conceptual Poet as Witness.” Contemporary Literature, vol. 61, no. 4, 2021, pp. 505-529.
- “Beyond Dead Poet’s Society: Cultural Criticism and Conceptual Poetry in the University Classroom.” Pedagogy, vol. 20, no. 3, 2020, pp. 499-521.
- “Toward a New Poetics of Witness: Juliana Spahr’s This Connection of Everyone with Lungs.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, vol. 26, no. 1, 2017, pp. 175-200.
- “Poetry as Monument: Jenny Holzer and the Memorial Poems of 9/11.” Memory Studies, vol. 8, no. 2, 2015, pp.183-196.
- “Remounting, Remembering: Gendered Memorials and Colleen Wagner’s The Monument.” English Studies in Canada, vol. 35, no .4, 2009, pp. 71-94.
- Ragtime for Beginners: Poems. Killick, 2008