Dr. Kim Beauchesne and team receive research grants to explore literary voices from the Amazon Rainforest
Congratulations to Dr. Kim Beauchesne (Principal Investigator), Patricio Robles, Emily Ng, and Willow Volkert for receiving the UBC Public Humanities Research Seed Grant, Arts Undergraduate Research Award (AURA), and SSHRC Explore Grant for research projects related to “Green Narratives: Literary Voices from the Amazon Rainforest.” About the research project: “Green Narratives: Literary Voices from the […]
Sarah Revilla Sanchez: Gender-based violence in Mexican horror and gothic fiction
Sarah Revilla Sanchez, PhD Student of Hispanic Studies, shares about her research on gender-based violence in Mexican horror and gothic fiction written by women (Part 1) and about her graduate student experience at UBC (Part 2). Part 1: Research What is your research topic? My dissertation examines how gender-based violence is conceptualized and critiqued in […]
Alumni Spotlight: Laura Marr, MA Student of French
Laura Marr shares why she pursued French Studies at UBC for both her BA and MA degrees.
UBC Giving Day: Invest in graduate students through the FHIS Department Fund
Invest in graduate student potential by making a gift to the FHIS Department Annual Fund on UBC Giving Day, April 4th. Affordability is one of the greatest challenges faced by graduate students. Your gift to the FHIS Department Fund will directly support the research and professional growth of MA and PhD students in French and […]
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 […]
Mathilda Poulenay: Contemporary queer feminism in Francophone literature
Mathilda Poulenay, PhD Student of French Studies, examines contemporary queer feminism in Francophone literature (Part 1). She also shares about her graduate student experience at UBC (Part 2). Part 1: Research What is your research topic? My research focuses on contemporary queer feminism. I chose to work on authors Virginie Despentes, Wendy Delorme and Jo […]
Recently Defended Theses
Date range: November 2023 – February 2024 MA in Hispanic Studies Luis Enrique Moguel Aquino Naturaleza, indígenas e imperio en Noticias de Nutka (1793) de José Mariano Mociño This study, which offers an interpretation of Noticias de Nutka (1793) written by José Mariano Mociño, focuses on the representation of nature and natives of Nootka and […]