Research

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.