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Monthly Archives: April 2019
Invisible to Visible: Symposium & Publication Exhibition of Contract Faculty Work at Congress 2019
CongressPoster_V4 Click the link to open the poster as a PDF; the Symposium will take place on June 4. My presentation, “‘Like a real girl: gaze, gender, and synthetic humans in Gothic science fiction” will develop the paper I gave … Continue reading
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Tagged adjunct faculty, androids, blade runner, clones, congress 2019, contract faculty, ex machina, film studies, gothic feminism, gothic science fiction, gothic studies, literary studies, public talks, publications, sessional faculty, star trek, symposium, synthetic humans
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English 243/001: Science Fiction and Fantasy/Speculative Fiction (September 2019)
Science Fiction and Fantasy/Speculative Fiction – Term 1 MWF 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. – Gisèle M. Baxter Canvas login The Posthuman Prometheus: Frankenstein’s Legacy in the Artificial Humans of Speculative Fiction “Have you ever retired a human by mistake?” – Rachael … Continue reading
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Tagged androids, blade runner, clones, cultural studies, do androids dream of electric sheep?, dystopian texts, english 243, film adaptation, gothic science fiction, literary genres, madeline ashby, near-future, neuromancer, popular culture, posthuman, science fiction, science fiction and fantasy, september 2019, speculative fiction, the matrix, ubc, ubc english, Vn
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English 110/034 Approaches to Literature (January 2020)
Approaches to Literature – Term 2 (034: TTh 2:00-3:30 p.m.) – Gisèle M. Baxter Canvas login Literary Monsters and Monstrous Literature Rey: “You are a monster.” Kylo Ren: “Yes, I am.” – Star Wars: The Last Jedi “Deformed, unfinished, sent before … Continue reading
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Tagged approaches to literature, english 110, film adaptation, gothic, introduction to literature, january 2020, literary genres, literary monsters, monsters and monstrosities, richard iii, the picture of dorian grey, ubc, ubc english, we have always lived in the castle
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English 100/016: Reading and Writing About Literature (January 2020)
Reading and Writing About Literature – Term 2 TTh 12:30-2:00 p.m. – Gisèle M. Baxter Canvas login Haunted Houses “What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again? An instant of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems … Continue reading
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Tagged contemporary gothic, cultural studies, english 100, gothic, gothic horror, haunted houses, literary studies, reading and writing about literature, ubc, ubc english
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English 301/001: Technical Writing (January 2020)
Technical Writing – Term 2 TTh 9:30-11:00 a.m. – Gisèle M. Baxter Canvas login Now with added grammar! While 301 is not a course in remedial grammar, this section will provide both online Canvas-based writing resources and a two-week series of classroom-time workshops, designed to … Continue reading
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Tagged january 2020, professional writing, technical communication, technical writing, ubc, ubc english
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