News & Events

Kyle Stooshnov successfully defended a PhD dissertation today titled “The Virtual Renaissance: Self-Consciousness Through Literacy/Technology”.

Congratulations to Simangele Mabena on being awarded the SSHRC CGSD (Canada Graduate Scholarships – Doctoral)!

Thank you all who were able to attend the LLED Graduate Student Welcome event.

Please join us for the screening of this Award winning Indigenous Film. Presented by the Department of Language & Literacy and the Office of Indigenous Education.

Kyle Stooshnov will have a dissertation defence at 1:00 PM on Thursday, September 12, 2019 in Room 0110 of UBC Studios, University Services Building (2329 West Mall).

We hope that you can join us in Multipurpose Room 2012 from 3:00-5:00PM on Friday, September 6th.

Congratulations to Monica Shank and Rachel Horst on receiving the SSHRC CGSD (Canada Graduate Scholarships – Doctoral) Award!

If you are hoping to have your degree granted in November, the application for graduation will be available on the Student Service Centre until Sunday, September 15, 2019.

This lecture is open to members of the public and all are welcome. It forms part of the MEITS conference on multilingual identity. Information about the conference, the MEITS project and other forthcoming events can be found at: >www.meits.org

We're excited to share with you this Special Topics course, offered by Associate Professor Dr. Candace Galla.

Come and join us for this David Lam course will be offered with Professor Henry. if you are interested in language, power, race, politics, Caribbean diasporic and racialized immigrant issues as well as critical race and critical multicultural analyses.

Evan Taylor successfully defended a PhD dissertation on August 6 titled “Cancer's Margins: Sexual and Gender Marginality and the Biopolitics of Knowledge.”

Dr. Ryuko Kubota recently published her essay entitled "Racial biases in academic knowledge" in OUPblog: Oxford University Press’s Academic Insights for the Thinking World.

The 2019 Summer Institute will take place from August 19-29 and September 4-6 on the UBC Vancouver campus.

Evan Taylor will have a dissertation defence at 12:30 PM on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 in Room 200 of the Graduate Student Centre (6371 Crescent Road).

We're delighted to announce that LLED's PhD student, Margaret McKeon, has been awarded the 2019-20 James M. Flaherty Research Scholarship Award from the Ireland Canada University Foundation.

Amanda Wager, LLED PhD graduate, has been recently appointed as a new Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Community Research in Art, Culture & Education at Vancouver Island University.

The Department of Language and Literacy Education is pleased to announce that Dr. Kathryn Accurso will be joining LLED on January 1, 2020, as a tenure-track Instructor.

Karen Sharkey will be defending her PhD research proposal from 3:00 - 5:00 PM on Tuesday, June 16th, in Room 1306, PCOH (6445 University Boulevard).

Thank you for everything, Anthony and Margot! Wishing you the best in this next phase in your life!

Natalia Balyasnikova successfully defended her PhD dissertation today. Congratulations, Natalia!

Working towards a career as a French Teacher? Get classroom ready! Register for Séjour UBC and get to know other French students and teacher candidates!

Congratulations to Liza Navarro, winner of the LLED Graduate Student Outstanding Service Award for the 2018-19 academic year!

Natalia Balyasnikova will have her dissertation defence at 9:00 AM on Friday, July 5th, in Room 200 of the Graduate Student Centre (6371 Crescent Road).

LLED is pleased to host 22 secondary-school English-language teachers from Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education for a ten-week professional development program.

The stereotype of the high-achieving Chinese student in Canada, called the ‘model minority’, can mask differences in learning within this community, and a lack of research in this area means educationally at-risk students are being overlooked. Image credit: Paul H. Joseph

Students of LLED presented at Congress 2019.

Dmitri Detwyler will be defending his PhD research proposal at 11:00 AM on Thursday, June 20th, in Room 1306, PCOH (6445 University Boulevard).

Ashley R. Moore will be defending his PhD dissertation proposal at 1:00 pm on Tuesday, June 25th, in Room 1306A of Ponderosa Commons: Oak House (PCOH).

Please join us for this public talk with Dr. Yumi Sugihara Yoshida, visiting associate professor at UBC’s Institute of Asian Research and an associate professor in the Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University, Japan.

Dr. Kowkabi is a recent graduate of LLED. She will take up her new position on July 1.

Congratulations to Dr. Guofang Li and her team, Drs. Jim Anderson, Jan Hare, and Marianne McTavish, on successfully organizing and hosting the event.

Thank you to the planning committee for organizing this emotional event. Please join us in revisiting this journey through these photos, and thank you to Yuya Takeda (@yuyapecotakeda) for his professional service.

Congratulations to Lisa Altan on winning a Dean’s Award for Staff Excellence as an Emerging Leader!

The Department of Language and Literacy Education is pleased to announce that Dr. Valia Spiliotopoulos will be joining LLED on August 1, 2019, as a tenure-track Instructor.

Botao Wu successfully defended his PhD dissertation today titled “My Journey in Language: A Poetic Inquiry”. Congratulations, Botao!