The Department of English and Cultural Studies welcomes students who want to begin or continue their studies with us in September of 2020. Given the ongoing uncertainties of the times, we will have a full slate of online course offerings for you to register in so that you can be sure that your education will not be disrupted by any restrictions to face to face interaction. For those students who come and live on campus or want to commute to campus, we will do our best to have face to face classes in real classrooms, as circumstances permit. One way or another, you can be sure that you will receive highly qualified instruction in Cultural Studies, Digital Humanities, English, and also in our new courses in Composition and Rhetoric. Once the campus opens wide again and our classes move fully back into real classrooms, you will be able to meet and interact with your professors and move smoothly into your programs of study, based on the coursework that you’ve already completed under these strange conditions.
In our English program, students can study English literature, not only in its historical unfolding, but also in contemporary Canadian and global contexts. Our English programs include the BA Major and Minor, the BA Honours, and the MA. The Cultural Studies program combines its core courses with cross-listed courses from a variety of disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Students shape their degrees by choosing courses from three broad themes: Media and Popular Cultures, Global Cultural Studies, and Critical and Cultural Theory.
Our programs allow students to engage in research projects that range from literary studies, indigenous studies, cultural activism, community research, cultural heritage, digital production, and digitized cultural history. Our department will continue evolving, to meet the needs and interests of students and to conduct leading research in our disciplines. Watch for our growth in the Digital Humanities.
Gain a unique grounding in questions of identity, power, diversity and justice from global perspectives.
Learn how to conceptualize, produce, and communicate humanities research with digital tools and media.
An intensive course of study for English Majors who have demonstrated exceptional creative, critical, and communicative abilities in their second-year coursework in English.
Masters and PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies using digital technologies to explore questions central to the arts and humanities; applying arts and humanities frameworks to digital tools and technologies.
Explore literature and how it imparts meaning in multiple contexts and eras, including the contemporary globalized world.
Interdisciplinary and intensive concentration on a single period stretching from the twilight of antiquity to the dawn of the Enlightenment.
Focus on literary and cultural analysis with expert scholars who proved individualized and inspiring mentorship that enables you to conduct dynamic research.
Masters and PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies, work closely with faculty across a diverse set of disciplines.
David Jefferess | Postcolonial Studies, Globalization, Anti-Oppression
Daniel Keyes | Film, Television, Critical Whiteness Studies
Ruthann Lee | Media and Social Activism, Anti-Colonial Feminisms, Queer Theory
Kyong won Yoon | New Media, Youth Culture, East Asian Cinema
Maria Alexopoulos | Cultural Studies Practices; Modern Critical Theory
Emily Murphy | Digital Humanities, text encoding, digital editing
Anderson Araujo | Transnational Modernism, First World War Poetry, Twentieth-Century British and Irish Literature
Jodey Castricano | 19th century studies (Gothic Studies, Psychoanalysis (Freud/Jung)) Critical Animal Studies, Ecofeminism, Critical Theory
Anita Chaudhuir | Writing studies, Rhetoric and Communications
Alison Conway | Literary and cultural history of the long eighteenth-century in Britain, narrative studies, and gender and sexuality theory
Robert Eggleston | Restoration and 18th-century theatre; ideological instability in the comedies and farces of Edward Ravenscroft; theories of comedy during the late 17th century; political satire and censorship of the stage during the 1720s and 1730s.
Greg Garrard | Ecocriticism, contemporary environmental writing, critical animal studies
Lisa Grekul | Canadian literatures, diaspora literatures and theory
George Grinnell | Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Romanticism, punk culture
Jennifer Gustar |Contemporary British Literature, UK Transculturalism, Gender and Contemporary Literature, Literature of South Asia and the Diaspora
Lisa Grekul | Canadian literatures, diaspora literatures and theory
Allison Hargreaves | Indigenous Literature & Theory, Indigenous Feminisms, Settler Studies
Melissa Jacques | Literary Studies and Practices
David Jefferess | Postcolonial Studies, Globalization, Anti-Oppression
Daniel Keyes | Film, Television, Critical Whiteness Studies
Sean Lawrence | Shakespeare, canonical literature and twentieth-century French philosophy
Marie Loughlin | Sixteenth-century poetry and prose, early modern women’s writing, early modern drama
Oliver Lovesey | Victorian & 18th-Cen. Novel, Postcolonial Studies
Paul Milton | 20th-century American and Canadian fiction; literature and space; fictional treatments of suburban life; Canadian poets and literature; African-American literature.
Emily Murphy | Digital Humanities, text encoding, digital editing
Aisha Ravindran | First-year composition; advanced composition; public speaking and interpersonal communication; literature across cultures; English as an additional language; writing in the disciplines
Margaret Reeves | Early Modern Women’s Writing, Children’s Literary Cultures, Early Modern Childhood and Youth, Milton and Early Modern Political Theory, Satiric Fiction
Karis Shearer | Canadian poetry and fiction, critical pedagogy, gender theory, American poetry, cultural studies
Jordan Stouck | Composition studies, Canadian and Caribbean literature
Bryce Traister | American Literature, religious studies, American Cultural Studies, science fiction
Michael Treschow | Old and Middle English Literature
Joanne Cockerline | Management communications, science and engineering communications, contemporary Canadian fiction
Shona Harrison | English Literature and Composition
Allison Jensen | First Year English
Shirley McDonald | Canadian literature and history, life writing, prairie settler narratives, ecocriticism, Scholarship on Teaching & Learning
Jenn Payson | English Composition
Daryl Ritchot | First year English
Saeed Sabzian | Studies in Composition for English Language Learners
Cathi Shaw | English Composition
Bridget Trainor | First year English
Jon Vickery | English Literature and Composition
Michael Treschow
Department Head, English & Cultural Studies
Associate Professor, English
Email: michael.treschow@ubc.ca
Tel: 250.807.9356
Office: CCS 345