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).
Campus
Vancouver
Affiliated UBC Faculty & Postdocs
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Bowers, Katherine | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | 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; 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; unearthing the uncollected fiction and journalism of Asian-North American author Edith Eaton ( |
| Etxabe, Julen | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Law and humanities; Legal Theory and Jurisprudence; Law and literature; Human Rights; Cultural Studies; Political Theory; history and philosophy of law; Law and humanities, Legal Theory and Jurisprudence, Law and Literature, Human Rights, Cultural Studies, Political Theory, history and philosophy of law |
| Frackman, Kyle | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | 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; 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) | premodern Japanese literature; medieval Japanese history; women's writing; Japanese women's history; travel writing; autobiography; Japanese poetry; Literacy; socialization; wet nursing; narratology; premodern Japanese literature, medieval Japanese history, women's writing, Japanese women's history, travel writing, autobiography, Japanese poetry, literacy, socialization, wet nursing, narratology |