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Home / 2020 / March / 04 / UBC experts: International Women’s Day

UBC experts: International Women’s Day

March 4, 2020

UBCO faculty can speak about why this day is necessary

Professor Alison Conway
English and Cultural Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies

Phone: 250 807 9701
Email: alison.conway@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Woman’s literature; literary and cultural history of the long eighteenth century in Britain; narrative studies; and gender and sexuality theory.

Professor Sue Frohlick
Anthropology, Gender and Women’s Studies

Phone: 250 807 8525
Email: susan.frohlick@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Mobility, subjectivity, space, gender, and sexuality; transnational intimacies; immigration; tourism and travel; youth and youthhood; community-based research; urban and transnational anthropology; heterosexuality; ethnography.

Associate Professor Suzanne Gott
Art History, Creative Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies

Phone: 250 807 9671
Email: suzanne.gott@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Exploring issues of gender, comparative aesthetics, display, and performance; investigating continuities and/or transformations of precolonial art and aesthetics in colonial, postcolonial, and contemporary art and visual culture.

Assistant Professor Heather Latimer
Gender and Women’s Studies

Phone: 250 807 8153
Email: heather.latimer@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Reproductive technologies and politics, especially reproductive futurism; biopolitics; sexuality studies; science and technology studies; feminist new materialism and post-humanism; cultural studies; literature and film.

Associate Professor Ilya Parkins
Gender and Women’s Studies

Phone: 250 807 9625
Email: ilya.parkns@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Feminist theories, especially epistemologies; history and theory of fashion; theories of modernity and early twentieth-century cultural formations; femininities; periodical media.

Associate Professor Margaret Reeves
English and Cultural Studies; Gender and Women’s Studies

Phone: 250 807 9639
Email: margaret.reeves@ubc.ca

Research Interests: Early modern women’s writing; children’s literary cultures (early modern to contemporary); early modern childhood and youth; Milton and early modern political theory; satiric fiction; women’s literature; Medieval and Renaissance studies; 16th- and 17th-century literature; history of the novel; auto/biographical discourse; speculative fiction; feminist and queer theory.

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UBC’s Okanagan campus is an innovative hub for research and learning founded in partnership with local Indigenous peoples, the Syilx Okanagan Nation, in whose traditional, ancestral and unceded territory the campus resides. The most established and influential global rankings all consistently place UBC in the top five per cent of universities in the world, and among the top three Canadian universities.

The Okanagan campus combines a globally recognized UBC education with a tight-knit and entrepreneurial community that welcomes students and faculty from around the world in British Columbia’s stunning Okanagan Valley. For more visit ok.ubc.ca.

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