PhD CoLab pilot program awardees
A collaborative research project between PhD students and faculty members from UBC’s Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies (FHIS) and other disciplines—titled “The Adaptive Text Encoding Initiative Network: Antiracist, Decolonial, and Inclusive Markup Interventions”—has been awarded funding from the Faculty of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies (G+PS) new PhD CoLab pilot program. The project involves […]
New Faculty Spotlight: Michela Valmori, Visiting Lecturer of Italian
Get to know Michela Valmori, Visiting Lecturer of Italian, who joined UBC’s Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies (FHIS) in January 2024. Career background I started teaching in 2005 at the Modern Language Centre of the University of Bologna, and throughout my career I taught courses at all levels in the Italian language, of […]
Irem Ayan receives SSHRC Grant to explore race and gender in Indigenous interpreting
Congratulations to Dr. Irem Ayan, Assistant Professor of French, for receiving a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for her research project titled “Voices of the First Nations: Reflecting on Race and Gender in Indigenous Interpreting”. About the research project: In a news article on July 24th, 2022, Henry Pitawanakwat, one of the twenty interpreters in Ottawa […]
Antje Ziethen receives SSHRC Grant to explore the reverse diaspora of “Brazilians” in West Africa
“Door of No Return” in Ouidah, Benin. Congratulations to Dr. Antje Ziethen, Assistant Professor of French, for receiving a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for her research project titled “Reverse Diaspora: The ‘Brazilians’ in West Africa”. About the research project: My project sheds light on a significant and yet mostly unknown chapter in transatlantic history through […]
Marie-Eve Bouchard Receives 2023 Anthony Lodge JFLS Research Award
Dr. Marie-Eve Bouchard, Assistant Professor of French Studies at UBC, was awarded the 2023 Anthony Lodge JFLS Research Award by the Journal of French Language Studies for best article on her study titled “J’va share mon etude sur les anglicismes avec vous autres: A sociolinguistic approach to the use of morphologically unintegrated English-origin verbs“. Abstract […]
New Faculty Spotlight: Marco Schaumloeffel, Isabella Huberman, Isabelle Delage-Béland
UBC’s Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies (FHIS) welcomed three faculty members into new roles. Get to know Marco Schaumloeffel (Lecturer of Portuguese), Isabella Huberman (Assistant Professor of French Studies) and Isabelle Delage-Béland (Assistant Professor of Teaching in French). Marco Schaumloeffel Lecturer of Portuguese Studies Isabella Huberman Assistant Professor of French Studies Isabelle Delage-Béland […]
Formative Peer Review of Teaching through CTLT
Did you know that you can engage in a confidential formative peer review of teaching through UBC’s Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT)? The CTLT Formative Peer Review of Teaching Program is a supportive process designed to provide feedback to instructors about their teaching. The CTLT has a team of reviewers who are trained […]
