The Public Humanities Hub is a three-year pilot project established in 2019 to support collaborative research among Humanities scholars and to highlight and develop public-facing research in the Humanities (in Arts, Law, and Education, at UBC Vancouver).

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Affiliated UBC Faculty & Postdocs

Name Role Research Interests
Bowers, Katherine Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Literature and literary studies, n.e.c.; Arts, Literature and Subjectivity; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Arts and Technologies; Dostoevsky; Russian literature; genre; Digital Humanities; Computational text analysis; gothic fiction; imagined geography; literary culture; narrative; Russian culture; the novel; Environmental Humanities
Chapman, Mary Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Social Networks; American Literature; Asian American Literature; Asian Canadian Literature; Suffrage; Public Pedagogy of the Arts; Public Humanities
Etxabe, Julen Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) History and philosophy of law and justice; Literature and critical theory; Law and society; Law and humanities; Legal Theory and Jurisprudence; Law and literature; Cultural Studies; Political Theory; history and philosophy of law
Frackman, Kyle Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Cinema studies; Media studies (except social media and digital media); Literature and literary studies; Cultural studies; queer studies; German studies; media studies; history of sexuality; sexuality; sexuality studies; East Germany; film; Gender Studies; history of science; literature; Media; Media Types (Radio, Television, Written Press, etc.); Scandinavia
Laffin, Christina Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) Humanities and the arts; premodern Japanese literature; medieval Japanese history; women's writing; Japanese women's history; travel writing; autobiography; Japanese poetry; Literacy; socialization; wet nursing; narratology