{"id":14,"date":"2025-04-24T11:47:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T18:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2025-08-25T08:54:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:54:02","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fhis.ubc.ca\/profile\/juliet-obrien\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FHIS department profile<\/a> introduction:<\/p>\n<p>Dr O\u2019Brien is a lecturer of French at UBC Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>She is of mixed origin and grew up in Belgium, bilingual (trilingual when very small). Her background has shaped a broader concern with hybridity, migrancy, cosmopolitanism, and tolerance. She has been at UBC since 2009. Before then, she taught at Princeton University (as a TA and then as a sessional), Trinity College Dublin (Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies), and University College Dublin. She has also worked in bookselling, freelance web-design, and translation.<\/p>\n<p>She teaches French language, literature, and culture. Her research is on Medieval literature and culture (mainly Old French and Occitan poetry), connections between medieval and post-medieval textuality and hypertextuality, the purpose of reading and its practice in interactive communities, and the integration of teaching and research in\/as learning. Her other interests\u2014some of which conjoin her teaching and research\u2014include speculative fictions of many forms and from many times (Medieval marginalia and romance,<em>\u00a0bande dessin\u00e9e<\/em>\u00a0and graphic novels, SF, cinema), and food.<\/p>\n<p>Her main blog is <a href=\"http:\/\/metametamedieval.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meta-meta-medieval.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This present site is a teaching portfolio.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/files\/2025\/04\/screenshot-2023-07-06-at-2.56.42-pm-295x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Self-portrait in office. I am in the foreground, pictured from the shoulders up. In the background are bookcases (French and medieval literature, modern literary criticism and theory, poetry and poetics). A potus plant is on top of the bookcase. Its vines entangle the shelves and sides below, and seem to grow out of my ear. Originally arranged as a background while teaching online, then photographed for use as a Zoom background. Composition and photo: Juliet O\u2019Brien, 2024. \" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/files\/2025\/04\/screenshot-2023-07-06-at-2.56.42-pm-295x300.jpeg 295w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/files\/2025\/04\/screenshot-2023-07-06-at-2.56.42-pm-1007x1024.jpeg 1007w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/files\/2025\/04\/screenshot-2023-07-06-at-2.56.42-pm-768x781.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/files\/2025\/04\/screenshot-2023-07-06-at-2.56.42-pm-620x631.jpeg 620w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/files\/2025\/04\/screenshot-2023-07-06-at-2.56.42-pm.jpeg 1417w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FHIS department profile introduction: Dr O\u2019Brien is a lecturer of French at UBC Vancouver. She is of mixed origin and grew up in Belgium, bilingual (trilingual when very small). Her background has shaped a broader concern with hybridity, migrancy, cosmopolitanism, and tolerance. She has been at UBC since 2009. Before then, she taught at Princeton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1097,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/julietobrien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}