Faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students at the Department of English Language and Literatures at UBC are at the forefront of humanities and arts research.
Our literature faculty engage in research in Old English studies, Medieval studies, Early Modern studies, 18th- and 19th-century studies; American studies, Canadian studies, post-colonial and history of empire studies, and all aspects of critical/literary theory. Our language faculty conduct research in the history of English, linguistics, and rhetoric.
We lead and participate in several multidisciplinary fields, including First Nations and Indigenous studies, Black studies, science and technology studies, Asian Canadian and Asian migration studies, race, gender, sexuality and social justice, environmental humanities, medical humanities, and media studies.
Research Spotlight
Publications
Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance
Vin Nardizzi Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2025 John Gerard’s natural history of plants, The Herball (1597), is considered a…
Teeth
Dallas Hunt Pender Harbour: Harbour Publishing 2024 This is a book about grief, death and longing. It’s about the gristle…
The Explorations of Edmund Snow Carpenter: Anthropology Upside Down
Richard Cavell Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press 2024 Edmund Snow Carpenter (1922-2011), shaped by an early encounter with Marshall McLuhan, was…
Subject/Object and Beyond: Women in Early Modern France
edited by Nancy M. Frelick and Edith Benkov Toronto: ITER Press 2024 Subject/Object and Beyond: Women in Early Modern France…
