Raúl Álvarez Moreno specializes in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish literature, culture, and language. His current research focuses on the connections between economic thought and medieval/early modern sources. He also has a particular interest in how the relation between language and reality articulates ideology. Other areas of research include Celestina, medieval story-telling, the Picaresque novel, Cervantes, Visual culture, and Travel writing. Ljiljana Biukovic is an international law scholar whose research focuses on trade and investment issues of international economic integration and on the impact of international trade law on national regulatory governance. Alexia Bloch is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on mobility and immobility, with particular emphasis on gender, families, and citizenship in contemporary Eurasia. Early Medieval Europe, Carolingian Intellectual and Cultural History Dennis Britton researches and teaches early modern English literature, with a focus on the history of race, critical race theory, Protestant theology, and the history of emotion. William Brown is both a scholar and a maker of films, with work spanning fiction, documentary, the video-essay and hybrids of all three. Benjamin Bryce is a historian of migration in the Americas. Among his major projects, two deal with German emigration and transatlantic connections to Germany. At UBC, he teaches “History 356: Twentieth Century Germany.” He is a co-editor of the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Anna Casas Aguilar is a literary and cultural studies scholar, and her research explores the intimate connections between gender, nationalism, and regionalism in modern Spanish and Catalan literature and visual culture. Joël Castonguay-Bélanger research focuses primarily on the Enlightenment and its legacies, the literature and culture of the French Revolution, and the circulation and transmission of knowledge in eighteenth-century France. John Christopoulos researches areas include early modern Europe, the history of pre-modern medicine and the social and cultural history of early modern Italy. Bonnie Effros teaches and conducts research on the history of archaeology, antiquarianism, and collecting in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; late antique and early medieval history and archaeology; and gender history and archaeology. She is interested in addressing the deep entanglement of the formation of the discipline of archaeology and the foundation of archaeological museums and private collections with European national and colonial politics. Kyle Frackman is a film and literature scholar whose research focuses primarily on representations of gender and sexuality in German and Scandinavian culture and history. Nancy Frelick specializes in French Renaissance Literature and visual culture, as well as post-structuralist psychoanalytic criticism and gender studies, among others. She is currently completing two book projects: one on mirror motifs; and the other on the reception of women writers. Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire works on French and Francophone literatures from 1945 to the present, with a particular focus on the spatial invention and representation of post-conflict and post-industrial environments. Eagle Glassheim is a historian whose current research focuses on the environmental history of Eastern and Central Europe. Sima Godfrey is a specialist in 19th-century French literature and cultural history. Prof. Gramling’s (he/they) research explores linguistics, intersectionality, and cultural communications in Europe. Gramling is a proud member of the AHRC Translating Cultures Theme Researching Multilingually at Borders, the American Literary Translators Association, and is the Translations section editor of Transgender Studies Quarterly (Duke University Press). Ayasha Guerin is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and professor of Black Diaspora Studies. Stephen Guy-Bray specializes in Renaissance poetry, queer theory, and queer poetics Markus Hallensleben’s field is Germanic Studies and his current research focuses on Transitional Spaces in Post-Migration German-Language Literatures. Jessica Hanser’s research explores connections, relationships and interactions between Britain and China from 1600 until the First Opium War (1839–1842). Tracey Heatherington is an environmental anthropologist whose research explores the cultural politics of nature, climate and biodiversity in the context of Italy and the European Union. Ilinca Iurascu’s research focuses on intersections between literature and media theory, histories of material culture and technology in German and comparative studies, 18th-early 20th c. Alan Jacobs works on comparative public policy and political economy of advanced industrialized democracies and on qualitative and mixed-method methodology. Richard Johnston is starting work on a comparative study of campaigns and elections with European and North American cases. He is also continuing his collaborative work on immigration, diversity, multiculturalism, and the welfare state. Thomas Kemple’s research advances European and North American traditions of classical and contemporary social theory from the late 18th century to the present. Alexei Kojevnikov is currently Co-Director of Science, Technology, and Society Program: https://sts.arts.ubc.ca/about-sts/program-officers/ Current projects include: Space-Time, Death-Resurrection, and the Russian Revolution; Biosocial Boundaries and Cross-Cultural Encounters Caroline Lebrec is a specialist of the forms of writing under constraints and gender-inclusive writing. Her research interests include French literature from 1900 to the present, especially avant-gardes and Oulipo (Workshop for Potential Literature) and inclusive pedagogy. Jason Lieblang is a Senior Instructor in the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies specializing in German Studies. He works at the intersection of crisis, culture, and masculinities, especially in Germanic contexts. Gregory Mackie’s research emphases are drama, book history, and queer studies at the turn of the twentieth century. A recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Humanities, SSHRC, Fulbright and Hewlett fellowships, and an honorary Fellow of the American Folklore Society, she has published on religion, folklore, foodways, festival and witchcraft in Europe and North America, and is a leading authority on the modern Pagan movement. Georgios Makris specializes in Byzantine art and archaeology. His work lies at the intersection of art history, archaeology, and cultural history. Ervin Malakaj’s expertise ranges from 19-21st Century German media history with a focus on emotion studies, queer studies, and film studies. Ramesh Mallipeddi’s areas of expertise include restoration and eighteenth-century English literature; the early novel; historiographies of colonialism and slavery; sentimentalism; transatlantic studies; critical theory; postcolonial literature and criticism. Jaleh Mansoor teaches modern and contemporary art history with an emphasis on Post WWII European Art. Her areas of interest, in addition to art and its histories, include Formalism, Marxist Feminism, Frankfurt School Theory and art as technology. Ernest Mathijs researches cult film, genre cinema, David Cronenberg, and European horror. Renisa Mawani works in the fields of critical theory and colonial legal history and has published widely on law, colonialism, and legal geography. Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom’s research focuses on transnational activism and NGO politics, particularly involving Russian civil society. She is also the leader of the SSHRC-funded network Activists in International Courts (ActinCourts), which connects researchers and human rights practitioners to build knowledge on the roles of nongovernmental activists in international human rights courts and tribunals, including the European Court of Human Rights. hagwil hayetsk (Charles Menzies) studies resource dependent communities in western Canada and Western Europe (Donegal & Brittany). His approach includes film and ethnographic methods. Dr. Monteyne teaches the art history and media cultures of Renaissance Italy and Northern Europe, of Counter-Reformation Rome, 16th and 17th century Spain and Spanish America, and the Northern European urban and courtly cultures of the 17th century. Patrick Moran is a specialist of medieval French literature. His research interests include medieval literature, 12th and 13th century narrative genres, codicology and material philology, literary theory and cognitive poetics, modern fantasy fiction and modern medievalism. Educated at Rutgers and Cornell, Ira Nadel has concentrated on the Victorians and Moderns, while pursuing the critical and practical matters of biography. Current research involves Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes. Dr. Nardizzi specializes in English Renaissance literature, especially Shakespeare. He also has research interests in ecotheory, plant studies, queer studies, and disability studies. Judith Paltin is an Associate Professor in Modernist studies. Her current research focuses on the politics of British and Irish modernism and on modern and contemporary theories of collective identification and action. Dr. Rosemarie Peña is the founder and president of the Black German Heritage and Research Association (BGHRA). Her research explores displaced childhoods with a special focus on the historical and contemporary intersections of transnational adoption and child migration. Katharina Piechocki specializes in early modern French and Romance literature, in particular theatre, opera, cartography, medicine, gender, affect, and translation studies. Having studied French, Italian, and Portuguese as well as Theater, Film, and Media Studies, she has completed two doctorates, in Romance Studies (University of Vienna) and in Comparative Literature (NYU). Anne Salamon specializes in philology and history of Romance languages. Her research focuses primarily on medieval French-language texts, from the point of view of ecdotics, codicology and material philology. Salgirli’s research includes early Ottoman and Islamic art and architecture, medieval Mediterranean art and architecture, architectural history. Elif Sari is a socio-cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on transnational sexualities, migration/asylum, humanitarianism, and queer and critical race theory with a specific focus on the Middle East and its diasporas. Allen Sens is engaged in research on international security, teaching and learning, and knowledge mobilization. T’ai Smith is an historian of modern and contemporary art, design, and visual culture in Europe and North America. Her research focuses on textiles and fashion as economic and medial forms. Yves Tiberghien is a comparative political economist with interest in both European and Asian political economy, as well as a particular interest in French politics. His research focuses on comparative economic policies in the context of globalization, climate politics, and the changing framework of global governance.
You can read more about his work at www.benjaminbryce.ca. 
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