Research & Teaching

Gender, Race and Medicine: The Construction of the Hysteric – Medical Humanities Symposium

Interdisciplinary symposium considers the entanglement of medicine, science, culture, and power as well as the shifting definitions, diagnoses, treatments and representation of ‘hysteria’ over time

A Reading & Conversation with Montreal Author and Scholar Karine Rosso (in French)

A Reading & Conversation with Montreal Author and Scholar Karine Rosso (in French)

Montreal based writer invited to meet with French students at UBCO

Alumna Profile: Olivia Abram

Alumna Profile: Olivia Abram

Olivia Abram completed the coursework option in the Masters of Arts in English this spring, supervised by Dr. Allison Hargreaves. Her independent research paper was entitled, Settler-as-secondary: Ethics and Politics of a Settler Engagement with Islands of Decolonial Love. Abram came to UBC Okanagan in the fall of 2020 after completing her Bachelors of Secondary […]

Faculty Spotlight: Cathi Shaw

Faculty Spotlight: Cathi Shaw

As a published writer and instructor of communications and rhetoric, Shaw works to facilitate student learning as they become confident with their communication skills.

Nina Langton

Faculty Spotlight: Nina Langton

Associate Professor explores current and relevant topics and the aspects of Japanese culture in her classes.

Mural painting course planned for every summer

Mural painting course planned for every summer

Visual Arts students are working to create another mural in Downtown Kelowna this summer.

Faculty Spotlight: Sakiru Adebayo

Faculty Spotlight: Sakiru Adebayo

Dr. Adebayo’s research is in the area of African and African diaspora literature, postcolonial studies, and trauma and memory studies.