Affiliated Faculty


Stephen Guy-Bray

Stephen Guy-Bray specializes in Renaissance poetry, queer theory, and queer poetics. His most recent monograph is Shakespeare and Queer Representation (2020).

Stephen.Guy-Bray@ubc.ca


T’ai Smith

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.

tai.smith@ubc.ca


Terri Givens

Givens’ research and teaching focuses on comparative politics in Europe and the US, including immigration policy, the politics of race, and anti-discrimination policy. She conducted ground-breaking research on the radical right in Europe in the 1990s and early 2000s, including a focus on the role of gender and race in electoral politics. Her current research project focuses on the intersection of migration and race politics in a global context.   terri.givens@ubc.ca


Thomas Kemple

Thomas Kemple's research advances European and North American traditions of classical and contemporary social theory from the late 18th century to the present.

kemple@mail.ubc.ca


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


Tim Frandy

Tim Frandy’s work involves traditional culture, decolonization, environments, education, and cultural revitalization, having conducted ethnographic fieldwork with Indigenous reindeer herders, salmon fishermen, birchbark canoe builders, ceremonial leaders, musicians, artists, activists, educators, and more.

tfrandy@mail.ubc.ca


Tracey Heatherington

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.

tracey.heatherington@ubc.ca


Vin Nardizzi

Dr. Nardizzi specializes in English Renaissance literature, especially Shakespeare. He also has research interests in ecotheory, plant studies, queer studies, and disability studies.

nardizzi@mail.ubc.ca


Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire

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.

vincent.gelinas-lemaire@ubc.ca


William Brown

William Brown is both a scholar and a maker of films, with work spanning fiction, documentary, the video-essay and hybrids of all three.

William.Brown@ubc.ca