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
Radio Free Stein
Adam Frank Illinois: Northwestern University Press 2024 What happens when we listen to Gertrude Stein’s plays as radio and music…
Stolen Plums
Alice Turski Montreal: Vehicule Press 2025 The poems in Alice Turski’s ravenous and playful Stolen Plums explore the ways we consume…
Proximities: Literature, Mobility and the Politics of Displacement
John Culbert Liverpool: U of Liverpool Press 2025 As the era of high globalization has given way to a time…
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…
