UBC Professor shakes up Romance studies in experimental course
May 5, 2022 Invited to teach his department’s “Introduction to Literature and Cultures of the Romance World” (RMST 202), Jon Beasley-Murray took a characteristically unconventional approach. His Spring 2022 offering questioned not only the scope of Romance Studies, but also the way it should be taught. The course raised questions of disciplinarity and method while […]
UBC professor grows online community with modern Persian literature
Written by Heidi Rennert March 29, 2022 Every Friday evening for the last year, without break, Dr. Hessam Dehghani sits at his home office desk and launches a Zoom meeting. In the first few sessions, he’d meet with a handful of his students from UBC’s Persian language program to practise Persian and read modern Persian […]
UBC Education professor re-imagines university housing for “living, learning, and working together in more equitable ways.”
October 21, 2021 Written by Heidi Rennert Dr. Michelle Stack has forged a formidable career path in education, government, advocacy and academia–but for her latest project, she’s returning to her roots. Before entering academia, she worked in policy positions and as an adult educator, and then as a communications director in an office that, investigated […]