What's Happening
STUDENTS
Lise Jaillant has won a UBC Graduate Student International Research Mobility Award. This grant will allow her to work in the Oxford University Press archives in England in August 2012. Lise is writing a dissertation on “Highbrow,” “Middlebrow,” or “Modern”? Random House and the Modern Library Series, 1917-1955.” Her supervisory committee consists of John X. Cooper, Ira Nadel, and Leslie Howsam (University of Windsor).
ALUMNI
Julie Okot Bitek, who completed her MA under the supervision of Michael Zeitlin, Laura Moss, and Margery Fee, has just begun a doctorate as a Liu scholar at the Liu Institute for Global Issues under the supervision of Drs. Pilar Riano-Alcala (Social Work) and Erin Baines (Liu Institute). Her subject is the stories of formerly abducted women in northern Uganda. Photo by Kalina Okot Bitek.
After majoring in English at UBC, Alexis Foo graduated with an MA in literature and language from Queen's University in 2009 and has recently completed her MSt in Creative Writing at Oxford University under the supervision of UK poet Jane Draycott. As part of her graduating thesis at Oxford, Alexis has written a collection of poetry titled The Astronomy of Mars which explores the subjects of memory, nostalgia, and dissociation.
Lauren Schachter has been admitted into the doctoral programme in the Department of English at the University of Chicago. She completed her BA and MA in this department, working with Professors Patricia Badir, Michael Zeitlin, Christina Lupton, and Miranda Burgess.
CONFERENCE
The 11th Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language Conference will be held at UBC starting May 17 to 20, 2012. This year's theme is "Language and the Creative Mind." The conference will give all researchers interested in cognition, communication, and the creative mind an opportunity to work towards a more integrated approach. More information about the conference is available at here.
OUR GRADUATING MA AND PHD STUDENTS
The Department of English is pleased to announce the names of the students who received their graduate degrees this past November. Congratulations to all!
Ph.D. in English
Maia Joseph
Thesis Title: "Urban Change and the Literary Imaginary in Vancouver."
Committee: Laurie Ricou (supervisor),
Eva-Marie Kröller (English),
Laura Moss (English),
Tom Hutton (School of Community and Regional Planning)
Photo: Dr. Maia Joseph and Professor Laurie Ricou (supervisor).
M.A. in English
Sulynn Chuang
Thesis title: "My Face! Give it Back!": Interrogating Mask Metaphors and Identification in Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics
Committee:
Adam Frank,
Patricia Badir, Glenn Deer
Claire Duncan
Thesis Title: The "Pretty Art" of Detecting Pregnancy in The Duchess of Malfi
Committee: Vin Nardizzi (Supervisor), Patsy Badir, Stephen Guy-Bray
Claire started her PhD in English at the University of Toronto this September.
Amanda Perry (Non-thesis MA)
Amanda will be teaching at the Universidad de la Sabana in Bogota, Colombia while applying for admission to doctoral programs.
Kaja Sadowski
Thesis Title:
Unmoored Interpretations: The Consequences of (Mis) reading in “Emaré”
Committee: Robert Rouse (Supervisor)
Kiran Sunar
Thesis Title: Diasporic Sikh Masculinities in Ranj Dhaliwal’s “Daaku” and Gautam Malkani’s “Londonstani”
Committee: Lorraine Weir and Larissa Lai
Nina Varsava
Thesis Title:
Talking Apes: The Problem of Anthropomorphous Animals
Committee: Larissa Lai (Supervisor)
Other graduates not shown above are:
Mark Friesen (Non-thesis MA)
Pamela Owen (Non-thesis MA)
Rachel Sim (Non-thesis MA)