Brianne is an Associate Professor of Teaching (Spanish), and has taught in various capacities at UBC since 2010 (Assistant Professor (without Review), Lecturer, Arts One Instructor), and at universities in the United States prior to coming to Canada.

Brianne’s role in the FHIS Department focuses on undergraduate student engagement and intellectual growth in and outside of the classroom.  She teaches across the undergraduate Spanish language curriculum and also offers literature and culture classes in Spanish and in English that grapple with different aspects of the Hispanic context, with a particular focus on Latin American resistance literature.

Beyond FHIS, Brianne is the Academic Director (Arts) of the First Year Experience (FYE), and a Faculty Fellow for Jump Start, UBC’s orientation program for incoming first-year students.

As a faculty member in the Educational Leadership Stream, Brianne aims to enhance the undergraduate learning experience through curriculum design and renewal, extracurricular language support and development, and projects that build the foundations for intercultural competence in and for additional language and bilingual learners.  Brianne has presented her research and teaching and learning initiatives at local, national, and international conferences, and is often actively involved in the professional and pedagogical development of peers, TAs, and tutors in the FHIS Department and beyond.

Selected Publications

“Masking Revolution: Subcomandante Marcos and the Contemporary Zapatista Movement,” in Performing Utopias in the Contemporary Americas. Eds. Kim Beauchesne and Alessandra Santos. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. 111-129.

“From Machista to New Man?: Omar Cabezas Negotiates Manhood from the Mountain in Nicaragua.” Ciberletras (Winter 2009). http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/v22/orr.html

• Dean of Arts Educational Leadership and Innovation Award (2023)
• UBC Killam Teaching Prize (2017-2018)
• Recognized as one of the “Top Instructors in the Arts” (2013-2016)

UBC International Accredited Certificate for Faculty Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) [Emphasis on Online Teaching and Learning] (2020).

International Program for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and the Scholarship of Educational Leadership (SoEL): UBC Certificate on Curriculum and Pedagogy in Higher Education (2015-2016).