Faculty members in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia publish and produce an extensive array of work across the spectrum of English language and literature.
Publications
2024
The Explorations of Edmund Snow Carpenter: Anthropology Upside Down
Richard Cavell Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press 2024 Edmund Snow Carpenter…
2024
Subject/Object and Beyond: Women in Early Modern France
edited by Nancy M. Frelick and Edith Benkov Toronto: ITER…
2024
Nothing Pure: Jewish Law, Christian Supersession, and Bible Translation in Old English
Mo Pareles Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2024 Early English…
2023
On Cuddling Loved to Death in the Racial Embrace
Phanuel Antwi London: Pluto Press 2023 Ranging from the terrifying…
2023
Pragmatics in the History of English
Laurel Brinton Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2023 How were you…
2023
Crip Negativity
J. Logan Smilges U of Minnesota Press 2023 Imagining anti-ableist…
2023
Landbridge: life in fragments
Y-Dang Troeung Knopf Canada 2023 In 1980, Y-Dang Troeung and…
2022
Refugee Lifeworlds
Y-Dang Troeung Philadelphia: Temple University Press 2022 Cambodian history is…
2022
The Masculinities of John Milton
Elizabeth Hodgson London: Cambridge University Press 2022 The Masculinites of…
2022
Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised
Alice Te Punga Somerville Auckland University Press 2022 Shrink-wrapped, vacuum-packed,…
2022
Line Endings in Renaissance Poetry
Stephen Guy-Bray London: Anthem Press 2022 This book looks at…
2022
Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence
J. Logan Smilges University of Minnesota Press 2022 While silence…
2022
Faulkner, Aviation and Modern War
Michael Zeitlin New York: Bloomsbury 2022 Faulkner, Aviation, and Modern…
2021
Fashion Nation
Sandra Tomc University of Michigan Press 2021 Fashion Nation argues…
2021
Shakespeare and Queer Representation
Stephen Guy-Bray Routledge 2021 In this engaging and accessible guidebook,…
2021
Writing the Empire: The McIlwraiths, 1853–1948
Eva-Marie Kröller University of Toronto Press 2021 Writing the Empire…
2020
Modernism and the Idea of the Crowd
Judith Paltin Cambridge University Press 2020 This book argues that…
2020
Oroonoko
Tiffany Potter, Editor Broadview Press 2020 The best-known work by…
2020
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Eliza Haywood
Tiffany Potter, Editor Modern Language Association 2020 During her long…
2020
Speechsong - The Gould/Schoenberg Dialogues
Richard Cavell Punctum Books 2020 Speechsong is a work of…
2019
Historians on John Gower
Historians on John Gower. Edited by Stephen Rigby, with Siân…
2019
Ovidian Transversions, ‘Iphis and Ianthe’, 1300-1650
Valerie Traub, Patricia Badir, Peggy McCracken, Editors Edinburgh University Press…
2019
Creating Canadian English: The Professor, the Mountaineer, and a National Variety of English
Stefan Dollinger Cambridge University Press 2019 This lively account of…
2019
The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction
Zachary Lesser (Editor), Daniel Allington, David A. Brewer, Stephen Colclough,…
2019
The Pluricentricity Debate
Stefan Dollinger Routledge Press 2019 This book unpacks a 30-year…
2019
Beautiful Untrue Things: Forging Oscar Wilde’s Extraordinary Afterlife
Gregory Mackie University of Toronto Press 2019 Borrowing its title…
2019
Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary Imagination
Vin Nardizzi and Tiffany Jo Werth, editors University of Toronto…
2019
Canadian Literature
Laura Moss, Editor (2015-2020) 2019 Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism…
2019
Why Indigenous Literatures Matter
Daniel Justice Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2018 Part survey of…
2018
Oldness; or, the Last-Ditch Efforts of Marcus O
Brett Josef Grubisic Now or Never Publishing 2018 With the…
2018
Advocating Weapons, War, and Terrorism
Ian E.J. Hill Penn State University Press 2018 Technē’s Paradox—a…
2018
The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics
Barbara Dancygier Cambridge University Press 2017 The best survey of…
2018
ADVA
Glenn Deer, Christopher Lee, and Marissa Largo, Guest Editors BRILL…
2018
Research Now: Contemporary Writing in the Disciplines
Rick Gooding & Daniel Burgoyne, eds. Broadview Press 2018 Research…
2018
Better Nature
Fenn Stewart Book*hug 2017 Much of the language that makes…
2018
The History of English
Laurel Brinton and Alexander Bergs De Gruyter Mouton 2017 Comprehensive…
2017
Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain
Siân Echard and Robert Rouse, Editors Wiley Press 2017 Bringing…
2017
Post-Personal Romanticism
Bo Earle Ohio State University Press 2017 Post-Personal Romanticism: Democratic…
2017
The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers in English
Laurel J. Brinton Cambridge University Press 2017 Based on a…
2017
Pizarro, Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Selena Couture and Alexander Dick, editors Cambridge University Press 2017…
2017
English Historical Linguistics, Approaches and Perspectives
Laurel J. Brinton, editor Cambridge University Press 2017 Written…
2017
Friedman House, SALA Modern House Series
Richard Cavell ACC Publishing 2017 The Friedman House is a…
2017
Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-cosmopolitan Mediators
Sneja Gunew Anthem Press 2017 Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediators…
2017
Posthumanism: A Guide for the Perplexed
Peter Mahon Bloomsbury Publishing 2017 In Posthumanism, Peter Mahon provides…
2017
Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature, 2nd edn.
Eva-Marie Kröller Cambridge University Press 2017 This fully revised second…
2017
David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books
Jeffrey Severs Columbia University Press 2017 What do we…
2017
English Language and Linguistics
Laurel J. Brinton, Patrick Honeybone (U of Edinburgh), Bernd…
2016
Becoming Sun Sui Far
Mary Chapman McGill Queen's University Press 2016 When her…
2016
Remediating McLuhan
Richard Cavell Amsterdam University Press 2016 While current scholarly interest…
2016
Canadian Literature 227
Christine Kim and Christopher Lee, Guest Editors 2016 Extending Canadian…
2016
The English Language: A Linguistic History
Leslie Arnovick and Laurel J. Brinton Oxford University Press 2016…
2016
Marshall McLuhan: On the Nature of Media
Richard Cavell Gingko Press 2016 Media studies has been catching…
2016
Virginia Woolf
Ira Nadel Reaktion Books 2016 Virginia Woolf was one of…
2016
From Up River and For One Night Only
Brett Grubisic Now or Never Publishing 2016 “From Up River…
2016
Badger
Daniel Heath Justice Reaktion Books 2015 Viewed as fierce, menacing…
2016
The Written Questionnaire in Social Dialectology
Stefan Dollinger John Benjamins Press 2015 Methods of linguistic data…
2016
Cathay: Ezra Pound’s Orient
Ira Nadel Penguin 2015 At the turn of the twentieth…
2016
The Masqueraders, or Fatal Curiosity and The Surprize, or Constancy Rewarded
Tiffany Potter University of Toronto Press 2015 The most important…
2016
Transferential Poetics, from Poe to Warhol
Adam Frank Fordham University Press 2014 Transferential Poetics presents a…
2016
Literary Land Claims
Margery Fee Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2015 Literature not only…
2016
Making Noise, Making News
Mary Chapman Oxford University Press 2014 For most people, the…
2016
Paradise Lost and the Cosmological Revolution
Dennis Danielson Cambridge University Press 2014 This volume brings John…
2016
Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain
Amanda Hopkins, Robert Rouse, Cory James Rushton, Editors Boydell &…
2016
Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase
Gisele Baxter, Brett Grubisic, and Tara Lee, editors Wilfrid Laurier…
2016
The Rival Widows or Fair Libertine
Tiffany Potter University of Toronto Press 2013 Elizabeth Cooper's The…
2016
The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature
James H. Cox and Daniel Heath Justice, editors Oxford University…
2016
Paul's Cross and the Culture of Persuasion in England, 1520-1640
Torrance Kirby and P.G. Stanwood, editors Brill 2014 The open-air…
2016
Marinetti Dines with the High Command
Richard Cavell Guernica Editions 2014 Marinetti Dines with the High…
2016
Studies in the History of the English Language VI
Laurel Brinton with Michael Adams and R, D. Falk, editors…
2015
The Age of Thomas Nashe
Stephen Guy-Bray, Joan Pong Linton, Steve Mentz Ashgate 2013 Traditional…
2015
Language and the Creative Mind
Barbara Dancygier The University of Chicago Press 2013 This volume…