Profiles

Janice Ho

Janice Ho

Janice Ho is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures. Her fields of research are in British and transnational modernisms; contemporary British literatures; and postcolonial and Anglophone world literatures. She is particularly interested in how literary representations and novelistic forms intersect with, among other things, histories of colonialism and migration; the politics of human rights; and development and infrastructure studies.

Irene Bloemraad

Irene Bloemraad

Professor Irene Bloemraad studies the political and civic incorporation of immigrants into Western liberal democracies and the consequences of migration for politics and receiving countries’ sense of national belonging. How do migrants gain voice in the political systems where they live?
 
She joined UBC in 2024 as the inaugural President’s Excellence Chair in Global Migration, with a joint appointment in Political Science and Sociology. She also co-directs the Centre for Migration Studies.
 
i.bloemraad@ubc.ca

Geoffrey Winthrop-Young

Geoffrey Winthrop-Young

Geoffrey Winthrop-Young is a Professor of German and Nordic Studies in the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies. His main research areas include German media theory (with emphasis on media archaeology and the theory of cultural techniques), chronopolitics (in particular, accelerationism and catastrophism), Science Fiction (with emphasis on alternate history), and the re-emerging mythologies of Nazism.

 

winthrop@mail.ubc.ca

Erika Frank

Erika Frank

Erica Frank, MD, MPH, FACPM is a physician and Professor with her primary UBC academic appointment in UBC-V’s School of Population and Public Health. She is also Affiliate Faculty @UBC-V in Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies, in Family Medicine, and in Interdisciplinary Studies, and served two terms as the Tier I Canada Research Chair […]

Nancy Ofori

Nancy Ofori

Nancy Ofori is a first-year master’s student in the Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia. Hailing from Ghana, she holds a B.A. in French and Economics from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Nancy’s research centers on linguistic insecurity and discrimination, particularly their connections to racial identity and language ideologies. She explores how societal perceptions often privilege certain groups, framing white speakers as the ‘standard’ or ideal. Her work highlights the challenges faced by marginalized individuals, particularly Black individuals and those for whom English is not a first language, as they navigate systems that marginalize linguistic diversity. By engaging in critical discussions on linguistic justice, Nancy seeks to challenge and dismantle these dominant norms, advocating for more inclusive language practices. She is committed to amplifying the voices of marginalized speakers and fostering a nuanced understanding of the complex interplay between language, identity, and power.

Sarah Revilla-Sanchez

Sarah Revilla-Sanchez

Sarah Revilla-Sanchez (she/ella) is a PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her doctoral research tracks how contemporary literary works by Mexican women are increasingly engaging with the Gothic mode to grapple with gender-based violence. Drawing on Gothic and Horror Studies, Gender Theories, and Feminist Studies, she demonstrates that the authors in her corpus not only capture and portray the horrors of patriarchal violence, but they do so in ways that expose the entanglement among gender, class, race, politics, and neoliberal logic. Her project will contribute to the study of Gothic literature by shedding light on the legacy of English Gothic writers in the works of Mexican female authors and the evolution and adaptation of this genre in the Spanish-speaking world. Before coming to UBC, she completed a master’s degree in Sociology at the University of Victoria and a master’s degree in Comparative Literatures and Arts at Brock University. Some of her other research interests include Testimony, Sound Studies and Digital Humanities.

Selin Berktas

Selin Berktas

Selin Berktas is a fourth-year undergraduate student in the English Literature department at the University of British Columbia. Selin’s academic interests include the Post-Soviet sphere, what defines it, what is beyond the “Post-Soviet,” and how literature and other forms of media are intertwined with these blurry definitions. Selin is committed to learning about how cultural work informs our understandings of lived experience, identity, and internationalism.

Tijana Vujosevic

Tijana Vujosevic

Tijana Vujosevic is Associate Professor and Chair of Architecture at the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia. She is a historian of architecture, design and spatial theory with publications in several interrelated fields: utopia, domesticity, and the avant-gardes.

tijana.vujosevic@ubc.ca

Ibrahim Muradov

Ibrahim Muradov

Dr. Ibrahim Muradov joined the University of British Columbia as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in September 2022 and currently serves as a Sessional Lecturer in the Department of Political Science. Dr. Muradov also serves as Head’s Assistant to UBC’s Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies. He served as a faculty member in the […]

Renata Faizova

Renata Faizova

Renata Faizova is an expert in international relations, focusing on Central Asia and Eurasian energy politics. Originally from Eastern Kazakhstan, she earned her PhD in international relations, with a dissertation on Kazakhstan’s foreign policy. Since 2010, Dr. Faizova has been a faculty member at M. Narikbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan, where she led internationalization programs […]