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Current Faculty

Adrian Lou

Adrian Lou

Coordinated Arts Program

Alessandra Santos

Alessandra Santos

Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies

phone604 822 2346
location_onBuchanan Tower 824

Alifa Bandali

Alifa Bandali

The Social Justice Institute

Alifa Bandali is a lecturer in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ). Dr. Bandali’s research focuses on feminist activism both in institutional and creative spaces. Her PhD thesis titled: Paid to care: Women’s experiences in non-profit/NGO work in Malaysia examined ...Read more

Amirpouyan Shiva

Amirpouyan Shiva

Department of Anthropology

I am socio-cultural anthropologist. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. My research looks at how technologies limit, enable, and program their users. My PhD dissertation, based on a long-term ethnographic fieldwork, addresses human-computer interaction and user experience in the Pe...Read more

Anne Stewart

Anne Stewart

Coordinated Arts Program

location_onIrving K. Barber Learning Centre IBLC IBLC 359 (Inside of 355)
Anne Stewart received her PhD in English literature from the University of Texas at Austin. She teaches ASTU in the Coordinated Arts Program, and her classes usually cover 20th century and contemporary literature and culture.

Benjamin Bryce

Benjamin Bryce

Department of History

I am a historian of migration in the Americas, with a particular focus on both Argentina and Canada. In addition to my teaching in the UBC History Department, I am also chair of the Latin American Studies program (2022-2025). Beyond UBC, I am the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Canadian His...Read more

Brent Strang

Brent Strang

Department of Theatre & Film

Brent Strang has a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies at Stony Brook University. His research interests include masculinities in American film & television, business histories of the home entertainment industry, and attention-capture through interface design & interaction peripherals.

Celia Edell

Celia Edell

Department of Philosophy

location_onBuchanan E275
Celia Edell is an FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at UBC-Vancouver. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from McGill University, an MA in philosophy from University of Sheffield, and a BA in philosophy from Western University. Celia’s research lies at the intersection of feminist theory, social epistemology, and ethics with a special focus on guilt, blame, and group oppression. Celia loves connecting philosophical ideas to popular-culture concepts and contemporary issues. Her current research and teaching interests focus on the ethics of internet relationality....Read more

Chowdhury Shameem Mahmoud

Chowdhury Shameem Mahmoud

Vancouver School of Economics

Dr. Chowdhury Shameem Mahmoud joined UBC in September 2018. He teaches courses in economics and statistics. He has also taught at York University, University of New Brunswick in Saint John, and Concordia. He designed new courses and participated in curriculum development at Concordia and York. At...Read more

Connor Byrne

Connor Byrne

Coordinated Arts Program

Connor Byrne has Ph.D. in English literature from Dalhousie University, where he completed a dissertation examining depictions of the city in early twentieth-century British and American literature. His research interests include modernism, modernist literary theory, urban studies, and theories of everyday life. Dr Byrne has taught widely in both English and Writing Studies departments at a variety of Canadian post-secondary institutions, including UBC’s School of Journalism, Writing, and Media. These courses have focused on academic and literary urbanism, twentieth-century African-American literature, technology studies, and science and speculative fiction. He has taught extensively within introductory courses in literary study, writing, and academic research....Read more

Emily Fedoruk

Emily Fedoruk

Coordinated Arts Program

I’m excited to be joining CAP for Fall 2021! Most recently, I’ve been teaching across English Literature and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies. I completed my PhD in Cultural Studies at the University of Minnesota in 2019. Interdisciplinarity is a fundamental part of my teaching and schola...Read more

Eva Csipak

Eva Csipak

Department of Linguistics

Evan Mauro

Evan Mauro

Coordinated Arts Program

location_onIrving K. Barber Learning Centre
Evan Mauro is a Lecturer in the Coordinated Arts Program at UBC, where he teaches academic writing, literature, and community engagement. His research is in cultural studies and critical theory, American literature, global modernisms, and critical university studies.

Heidi Tiedemann Darroch

Heidi Tiedemann Darroch

Coordinated Arts Program

I’m delighted to be joining CAP in the fall of 2023. I have taught academic writing, literature, and Canadian Studies at several Canadian universities and colleges, including the University of Toronto (where I did my PhD) and the University of Victoria. My research interests are in Canadian contemporary fiction and reconciliation discourse, with a particular focus on women’s writing and trauma theory. My work has appeared in Canadian Literature, ESC, and Essays on Canadian Writing, and I have book chapters in Canadian Culinary Imaginations, Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro, and Not Hockey: Critical Essays on Canada’s Other Sport Literature....Read more

Jennifer Moss

Jennifer Moss

School of Creative Writing

Jessica Wang

Jessica Wang

Department of History and Department of Geography

Josh Hite

Josh Hite

Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory

Kasim Husain

Kasim Husain

Coordinated Arts Program

location_onIBLC 357
Kasim Husain has a PhD in English and Cultural Studies from McMaster University. His research focuses on the emergence of the so-called “model minority” in contemporary British culture and fiction. His work has appeared in Postcolonial Text and South Asian History and Culture, as well as a co-authored chapter with Sarah Brophy on new directions in queer British fiction in the Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945. Other interests include decolonial pedagogy, empathy, Islamophobia, neoliberalism, and the podcast as media form and research method.  ...Read more

Katie Fitzpatrick

Katie Fitzpatrick

Coordinated Arts Program

location_onBUTO 202
Dr. Fitzpatrick received her BA from UBC, where she studied in the English Honours program. She went on to pursue her Masters and PhD in English at Brown University. Since graduating from Brown in 2017, she has taught writing and literature in the US and at UBC. She is particularly passionate about first-year instruction, interdisciplinary inquiry, and public scholarship. Dr. Fitzpatrick also works as a Humanities Editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books.Her essays and book reviews have appeared in The Nation, The Chronicle Review, The Point Magazine, and Public Books. Her academic research has appeared in Twentieth-Century Literature and Post-45: Peer Reviewed....Read more

Kenny Ie

Kenny Ie

Department of Political Science

Kenny Ie is an instructor in the department of political science at UBC. He received his PhD from the University of Western Ontario in 2017, and prior degrees from McGill University and Simon Fraser University. His research examines the institutional development of organizations which advise and support political leaders, particularly prime ministers and other chief executives. His research and teaching interests are in political leadership, Canadian politics, comparative executives, and institutional change....Read more

Mark Lam

Mark Lam

Department of Psychology

phone604 827 3768
location_onKenny Room 3523

Moberley Luger

Moberley Luger

CAP Chair

phone604 822 9558
location_onIrving K. Barber Learning Centre 357
I am Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of English Language and Literatures and Chair of CAP. My research has focused on contemporary American literature and its relation to crisis and memory; currently I am working on a project that examines pedagogies of poetry and suggests methods ...Read more

Neil Armitage

Neil Armitage

Department of Sociology

phone604 822 2632
location_onANSO 123

Ori Tenenboim

Ori Tenenboim

School of Journalism, Writing, and Media

location_onSing Tao Building 215

Saranaz Barforoush

Saranaz Barforoush

UBC Graduate School of Journalism

phone604 827 3540
Saranaz Barforoush is a sessional lecturer at the UBC School of Journalism.  She completed her PH.D. at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2017 with her dissertation, "The Dictator & the Charmer. US News Media Coverage of Chinese and Iranian Leaders." Her research interests include foreign news reporting, immigrant, and framing studies....Read more

Trevor Barnes

Trevor Barnes

Department of Geography

phone604 822 5804
location_onGeography 140C
I have three main research projects. The first is investigating Vancouver’s new economy and its effects on the city. I am undertaking this project in collaboration with Tom Hutton, School of Planning UBC. We have examined the video game industry, as well as architecture, and plan also to investigate the film and TV, and fashion industries. The second is a history of American geography from the Second World War through the Cold War. The project stems from an earlier one concerned with geography’s quantitative revolution. It became clear that the roots of that revolution lay in Cold War, and earlier, Second World War, social scientific methods, aims, and above all money. The research is primarily archival. The  last is a continuing interest in forest economies, primarily BC’s, but also those in the Antipodes....Read more