THE GARDEN STATUARY

 

The Garden Statuary is the new English Undergraduate Journal for the publication of both creative and academic work. Since September 2011, it has published two issues via its website www.thegardenstatuary.com. Next year, it will become a print publication. It is run by a group of diligent and dedicated English students in 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th year.

STUDENTS

 

Graduating Undergraduate Student Leaders

Esi Agbemenu has been involved on campus through UBC Orientations and Residence Life. Esi has been an Orientations MUG leader, a Squad leader, and is currently a Residence Advisor in Marine Drive Residence. She received the Marine Drive Most Valuable RA Award in April 2011. Esi is currently completing her honours essay on metatheatricality, mimesis, and violence in Renaissance plays under the supervision of Vin Nardizzi and Patricia Badir. She has been accepted into several law schools for the fall to pursue a J. D.

 

Jeremiah Carag is graduating from the BA Programme in Language. Recipient of the Gage Star Advisor Award, he has been Residence advisor in Gage Towers for the past two years, planning workshops and fundraisers for residents. He also organized two musicals, and acted in both. Next year, he intends to pursue a Bachelor of Music with a focus on Opera Performance.

 

 

 

 

Cindy Choo is graduating with a degree in English Literature and a minor in Psychology. She has made the most of her English degree and her writing skills through her co-op work terms with UBC Student Development and the BC Ministry of Jobs, Tourism, and Innovation, as well as her involvement with UBC Career Services for the past two years. From her various work experiences and her opportunities to interact with recruiters as an Employer and Campus Relations Assistant at Career Services, Cindy has learned firsthand the value of her degree and having strong communication skills in the workplace. She hopes to continue to apply her strengths after graduation as she pursues a career in communications.

 

Justin Yang has won the Dean's Outstanding Leadership Award in the UBC Community for his involvement with a variety of campus activities during his time at UBC. He is currently completing the Dual Degree in Science and Arts Program, studying English Honours and Cell Biology & Genetics. Justin is currently completing his honours essay on eighteenth-century chronometry and the rise of the novel under the supervision of Scott MacKenzie and Nicholas Hudson. He is also conducting a student directed seminar on Modernist fiction and obscenity jurisprudence with Lorraine Weir.

 

Lillienne Zen has participated in the VP's Emerging Leaders Program and UBC Orientations (GALA). Heavily involved with AMS Speakeasy peer support for four years, now as the Assistant Coordinator, she is also currently working as the Student Advisor for the Arts Co-op Program. Lillienne is completing her Honours essay on the language of offering within Chinese Canadian/indigenous relations, supervised by Chris Lee and Dory Nason.

 

 

 

 

FACULTY

 

New Appointments

The Department of English is pleased to announce the appointment of two new faculty members: Daniel Heath Justice (Associate Professor and Chair of the First Nations Studies Program) and Gregory Mackie (Assistant Professor, Drama).

Daniel Heath Justice is a Colorado-born Canadian citizen of the Cherokee Nation.  He is the author of Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History and numerous critical essays in the field of Indigenous literary studies, as well as co-editor of a number of critical and creative anthologies and journals, including the recent Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature.  His Indigenous epic fantasy novel, The Way of Thorn and Thunder: The Kynship Chronicles, was released last year by the University of New Mexico Press.  His current and forthcoming projects include a cultural history of badgers, a new fantasy novel, a critical monograph on kinship in Indigenous writing, and, with co-editor James H. Cox, the Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature.  He is delighted to be joining UBC and to learning from and contributing to its vibrant intellectual community.

 

Ian Hill successfully defended his dissertation this past fall, and will receive his PhD this spring (2012) from the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research into rhetoric and technology focuses on how people resist, advocate, design, appropriate, market, and otherwise argue and debate machines and systems. He has articles published or forthcoming in Western Journal of Communication, Kenneth Burke Journal, and Burke in the Archives (Univ. of South Carolina Press). He is currently working on a book project that examines weapons rhetoric in the period between the French Revolution and the Unabomber’s mail bombing campaign. He is also helping to construct an interactive online digital video archive of U.S. nuclear test films that were produced from the 1940s to the 1960s.

 

Gregory Mackie received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 2006. His areas of specialization include late-Victorian drama, especially Oscar Wilde; book history and print culture; and turn-of-the-twentieth century architecture and design. He has articles published or forthcoming in University of Toronto Quarterly, Modern Drama, ELT, and Theatre Survey. His current book projects concern dramatic forgeries of Oscar Wilde and the impact of the aesthetic movement on the Victorian stage.