Welcome to the Department of English
KILLAM TEACHING PRIZE
Glenn Deer has received a Killam Teaching Prize of the Faculty of Arts.
He has pioneered the teaching of Asian North-American writing at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and is acclaimed for his focused and generous attention to students' individual intellectual interests and personal requirements. In large undergraduate classes, his meticulous pedagogy ensures that all students follow the lectures and participate in discussion. As a long-time Associate Editor of the journal Canadian Literature, he has mentored and trained generations of work-study and Arts Co-op students in editorial work and so has prepared them for graduate study and the job market. Finally, as the English department's Chair of the Curriculum Development Committee, he has used his pedagogical and organizational talents to implement innovative courses and programmes.
SAM PAYNE AWARD
Jerry Wasserman has won the Sam Payne Award, see Vancouver Sun (April 25, 2012) article "Jerry Wasserman, Winston Reckert Honoured".
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ALUMNI
Kate Stanley was recently hired as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario. She received her her MA from the Department of English at the University of British, and her PhD from Columbia University. Her research and teaching focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and culture, with an emphasis on the modernist period. Other areas of interest include the history of the novel, narrative theory, pragmatism, psychology and literature, and theories of emotion. She is currently writing a book on psychological and aesthetic responses to the experience of surprise in transatlantic modernism. Her scholarly articles and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Henry James Review, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and Criticism.
New Appointments: Tenure-Track Instructors
Co-ordinated Arts Programme
Kathryn Grafton received her PhD from the University of British Columbia in 2010. Her areas of specialization include Canadian literature, genre theory, and reception studies, with a particular focus on digital literary culture. She has articles and chapters published or forthcoming in Linguistics and the Human Sciences, Genres in the Internet,and CBC Radio and the Rise of CanLit (Athabasca University Press). When teaching literature and academic writing, Kathryn’s pedagogical practices are informed by her work as a genre theorist. Currently, she is working with Dr. Laurie McNeill on a series of initiatives to strengthen collaborative teaching in the Co-ordinated Arts Program; these initiatives are funded by UBC’s Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF), the Dean’s Innovation Fund (DIF), and Arts Learn.
Laurie McNeill received her PhD from the University of British Columbia in 2004. She specializes in auto/biography studies and genre theory, with particular interests in digital life narratives, the diary, memorial practices, and civic narratives, including the cultural memory and identity of Vancouver. Her current book project focuses on instances of electronic auto/biography, including blogs, social networking sites, and “auto/tweetographies,” to understand how these narratives produce identities and communities. She has articles and chapters published or forthcoming in Biography, Identity Technologies, Genres in the Internet, and Language and New Media.
Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice
Janice Stewart received her PhD from McGill University in English. She has taught in the Coordinated Arts Programme, Women's Studies, Critical Studies in Sexuality, and the Department of English. Her interests include critical theory, gender theory, anti-racist work as well as modernist writers such as Virginia Woolf and Emily Carr. She is a winner of the Killam Teaching Prize (2009-2010).
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