“Something in my name turns me into a fish under attack,” says Jaws: shark, worker, spectacle. This award-winning poetry collection collapses the distance between sea and office, aquarium and classroom, factory and vacation resort, resumé and body under attack. JAWS is a book about water, breath, and suffocation, about work that disciplines the body, about survival under […]
This lecture is part of Mediatic Empire: Critical Inquiries into Environment, Technology, and Media Cultures, a five-part public lecture series organized by UBC’s Department of English Language & Literatures and Green College. View the full series schedule. TALK ABSTRACT This lecture centres Indigenous responses to climate change by focusing on a US proposal for deep-sea […]
The novel emerged in lockstep with the nation-state, serving as the cultural counterpart to political form in the modern era. However, these dynamics are unraveling as the raison d’être of the contemporary state veers from its people to the neoliberal market. In Novel Distortions, Dr Tamara L Mitchell analyzes recent (1996–2019) Mexican and Central American fiction […]
This lecture is part of Mediatic Empire: Critical Inquiries into Environment, Technology, and Media Cultures, a five-part public lecture series organized by UBC’s Department of English Language & Literatures and Green College. View the full series schedule. It is also a Dorothy L. Black Lecture. The Dorothy L. Black First Year English Speakers’ Series Endowment was established through […]
Curiosity moves us. Determination gets us there—because progress doesn’t happen on its own. See how we push forward.
