Raquel Baldwinson
Student
Doctor of Philosophy in English (PhD)
Department of English Language and Literatures
Consistently ranked among the top English departments in the world, ours is one of the largest, most diverse, and most vibrant departments at the University of British Columbia. The department is unique in Canada by offering two tiers of programs in English Literature and English Language and Linguistics at the graduate and undergraduate levels. We teach courses in all of the literary historical periods (Medieval, Early Modern, Eighteenth Century, Romantic, Victorian, Modernist, Postmodern, and Contemporary), national, transnational, postcolonial, transpacific, and Indigenous literatures in English, as well as language, linguistics, rhetoric, critical theory, media studies, and a range of interdisciplinary topics.
Graduate Degree Programs
Research Supervisors
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Akinwole, Tolulope | African literatures; African literatures and cultures; global Black literatures; African screen media; Black geographies; critical and cultural theory; Postcolonial Studies; decolonial studies; literature and infrastructure; automobility |
| Al-Kassim, Dina | anti-colonial; Artistic and Literary Movements, Schools and Styles; Artistic and Literary Theories; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Arts, Literature and Subjectivity; comparative literature: Arabic, English, French; feminist; Gender Relationship; Identity and Transnationality; Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies; postcolonial; psychoanalysis; queer theory; sexuality; Subjectivity; Anti-colonial, Artistic and Literary Movements, Schools and Styles, Artistic and Literary Theories, Arts and Cultural Traditions, Arts, Literature and Subjectivity, Comparative literature: Arabic, English, French, Feminist, Gender Relationship, Identity and Transnationality, Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies, Postcolonial, Psychoanalysis, Queer theory, Sexuality, Subjectivity |
| Anger, Suzy | Victorian Literature, Literature and Philosophy, Victorian Literature and Psychology, Victorian Literature and Science, Hermeneutics |
| Antwi, Phanuel | critical black studies; settler colonial studies; black Atlantic and diaspora studies; Canadian literature and culture since 1830; critical race, gender, and sexuality studies; and material cultures; |
| Badir, Patricia | Canadian Modernism; Early Modern Drama; Early Modern Literature and Religion; Medieval Drama; Shakespeare; Shakespeare in Canada; Canadian Modernism, Early Modern Drama, Early Modern Literature and Religion, Medieval Drama, Shakespeare, Shakespeare in Canada |
| Bain, Kimberly | Black Studies; racial capitalism; Anthropocene; critical-creative methodologies; Black studies, racial capitalism, Anthropocene, critical-creative methodologies |
| Briggs, Marlene | war and conflict; cultural transmission and reception of the First World War (1914-1918) in modern and contemporary British literature |
| Britton, Dennis | early modern English literature; history of race; Critical Race Theory; Protestant theology; history of emotion; early modern English literature, history of race, critical race theory, Protestant theology, history of emotion |
| Burgess, Miranda | Arts, Literature and Subjectivity; British and Irish Romanticism; history of feeling (affect, emotion, sensation); history of literary form; history of media and mediation; poetics; riparian and oceanic studies; Arts, Literature and Subjectivity, British and Irish Romanticism, History of feeling (affect, emotion, sensation), History of literary form, History of media and mediation, Poetics, Riparian and oceanic studies |
| Cavell, Richard Anthony | Media and Society; Media Influence on Behavior; Media Types (Radio, Television, Written Press, etc.); media studies; media theory; Media and Society, Media Influence on Behavior, Media Types (Radio, Television, Written Press, etc.), Media studies, Media theory |
| Chapman, Mary Ann | 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 ( |
| Dalziel, Pamela | Victorian-literature, Victorian-culture, visual-representation, illustration, gender-studies, religion, interdisciplinary-studies, textual-criticism, scholarly-editing, Thomas-Hardy, Charles-Dickens, George-Eliot |
| Dancygier, Barbara | Linguistics, grammar |
| de Villiers, Jessica | Linguistics |
| Deer, Glenn | discourse studies, the rhetoric of power in narrative fiction, and postmodernism and Canadian Literature |
| Dick, Alexander | British Romanticism; Scottish Enlightenment; Literature and Economics; Literature and the Environment; Literature and Science; Scottish Literature; literature and economics; |
| Dollinger, Stefan | Language Contact and Linguistic Changes; Linguistic Variation and Society; Lexicography and Dictionaries; Language Interactions; Language Rights and Policies; Bilingualism and Multilingualism; Language Contact and Linguistic Changes, Linguistic Variation and Society, Lexicography and Dictionaries, Language Interactions, Language Rights and Policies, Bilingualism and Multilingualism |
| Earle, Bo | British Romanticism, Critical Theory, Philosophy and Literature |
| Echard, Sian | Literary or Artistic Work Analysis; Literary or Artistic Work Dissemination or Reception Contexts; Modes and strategies of dissemination; Poetry; Media Types (Radio, Television, Written Press, etc.); Anglo-Latin literature; Arthurian literature; History of the Book; John Gower; Manuscript studies; Medieval literature; Literary or Artistic Work Analysis, Literary or Artistic Work Dissemination or Reception Contexts, Modes and Strategies of Dissemination, Poetry, Media Types (Radio, Television, Written Press, etc.), Anglo-Latin literature, Arthurian literature, History of the book, John Gower, Manuscript studies, Medieval literature |
| Frank, Adam | American literature and media, affect theory, modernism, science and technology studies; American literature and media, affect theory, modernism, science and technology studies |
| Frelick, Nancy | 16th century literature, theory &criticism, genre studies, women's writing &gender studies, early modern medicine |
| Guy-Bray, Stephen | Renaissance poetry |
| Hill, Ian | rhetoric, persuasion, argumentation, technology, weapons, interrogation, political economy, war rhetoric, conflict rhetoric, dissent, mass movements |
| Ho, Janice | English language; twentieth- and twenty-first century British literature and culture; British and transnational modernisms; postcolonial and world Anglophone literatures; contemporary fiction; histories and theories of the novel; human rights studies; infrastructure studies |
| Hodgson, Elizabeth | English Renaissance |