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- Adjunct Professor
- Adjunct Professor at the UBC School
- Adjunct Professor at the UBC School of Journalism, Writing and Media
- Research / Teaching Area
Alex Migdal is an adjunct professor at the UBC School of Journalism, Writing and Media, where he co-teaches Decoding Social Media. Alex is currently the senior producer for social media and audience development at CBC News. He oversees Canada's largest social media news team, with the goal of s...Read more
Alex Migdal is an adjunct professor at the UBC School of Journalism, Writing and Media, where he co-teaches Decoding Social Media.
Alex is currently the senior producer for social media and audience development at CBC News. He oversees Canada's largest social media news team, with the goal of sharing news to young, diverse audiences. He assigns and edits news content daily for various social platforms, including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Snapchat, and most recently helped launch the public broadcaster's TikTok account.
Alex has reported for a number of outlets across Canada over the past 10 years, including the Edmonton Journal, Guelph Mercury and The Globe and Mail. For his work at the Guelph Mercury, he received an Ontario Newspaper Award and the Goff Penny Award, one of Canada's top honours for young print reporters. Alex worked for five years as a reporter and social media editor at CBC Vancouver before joining the network team.
Alex graduated from the UBC School of Journalism in 2018. He produced a SSHRC-funded project on how the loss of community newspapers impacts local democracies, and was part of the International Reporting Program, where he reported on LGBTQ refugees in Turkey. He was awarded the Hal Straight Gold Medal in Journalism as the most outstanding graduate.
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Head and Professor, UBC Department of Anthropology
Alexia Bloch
Head and Professor, UBC Department of Anthropology
Wade Grant
Special Advisor to Former Premier Christy Clark and former Councillor on the Musqueam Chief and Council
James Ho
President, Mainstream Broadcasting Corp.
Jim Jennings
Associate Publisher, The Globe & Mail
Lisa Johnson
CBC News Reporter & Citizen Journalism Editor, UBC Journalism alumna ‘04
Sid Katz
Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Wab Kinew
Leader of the Manitoba New Democratic Party and Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
Vicki Lemieux
Associate Professor of Archival Science at the School of Information
Donna Logan
Professor Emerita and Founding Director, UBC School of Journalism
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- Professional Highlights
- Professor
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Hermida was also the first digital journalist to be honoured with a Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan.
Alfred Hermida, PhD, is an award-winning online news pioneer, digital media scholar and journalism educator, with more than two decades of experience in digital journalism. He is a full professor in the University of British Columbia School of Journalism, Writing, and Media, where he served as director for five plus years (June 2015 - December 2020).
In 2017, he co-founded and launched The Conversation Canada with his UBC Journalism colleague, Mary Lynn Young, bringing academics and experienced journalists together to share timely analysis and commentary drawing from research, evidence and insights.
With an extensive record of scholarly peer-reviewed articles in respected journals and chapter contributions to academic texts, Hermida is at the forefront of research into the digital transformation of media, social media and data journalism.
His most recent book, co-authored with Mary Lynn Young, is Data Journalism and the Regeneration of News (Routledge 2019). He is author of Tell Everyone: Why We Share and Why It Matters, (DoubleDay, 2014), winner of the 2015 National Business Book Award, co-author of Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers (Wiley Blackwell, 2011), and co-editor of The Sage Handbook of Digital Journalism (Sage, 2016).
His teaching and learning seeks to provide meaningful professional education experiences and enrich the career-readiness of students. He focuses on professional journalism education based on knowledge-enhancement, new media and interdisciplinarity, rather than just on static craft development based on industry-specific norms and structures. His approach seeks to engage students through scholarly work and professional practice, extending classroom learning into digital spaces through applied educational projects. He co-developed the Integrated Journalism, Decoding Social Media and Imagine Journalism Studio courses.
An award-winning journalist, he is a 16-year veteran of the BBC and was a founding news editor of the BBC News website in 1997. During his tenure as daily news editor at the website, the site won the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award for the best news website four years running, from 1998 to 2001, and a NetMedia Award for the Best Story Broken on the Net in 2000. In 2003, he received a NetMedia Award for Technology Reporting for an in-depth report on the use of technology in developing countries.
Prof Hermida joined the website after seven years in BBC radio and television news. working for regional, national and international outlets. Four of these years were as a BBC foreign correspondent in North Africa and the Middle East, mainly covering the military coup and Islamic insurgency in Algeria and the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. During this time, he interviewed the PLO leader Yasser Arafat twice, as well as the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. He also contributed articles on the Middle East to The Wall Street Journal and The Times of London, and radio reports for CBC and Christian Science Monitor Radio.
In 2005, Prof Hermida was the first digital journalist to be a Knight-Wallace fellow at the University of Michigan.
He is British-Canadian, with his family roots in Gibraltar where he was born and lived until going to university in the U.K.
Hermida, Alfred, and Young, Mary Lynn. 2017. "Finding the Data Unicorn: A hierarchy of hybridity in data and computational journalism." Digital Journalism, 5.2: 159-176.
Alfred Hermida, PhD, is an award-winning online news pioneer, digital media scholar and journalism educator, with more than two decades of experience in digital journalism. He is a full professor in the University of British Columbia School of Journalism, Writing, and Media, where he served as dire...Read more
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- Research Fellow at UBC 's School
Alice Fleerackers is a postdoctoral research fellow at UBC's School of Journalism, Writing and Media and at SFU's Scholarly Communications Lab. She is also an instructor at UBC's School of Public and Population Health and a co-chair of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Committ...
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- Assistant Professor Without Review
- Executive Director of the Global Reporting Centre
- Radio Journalist
- Research / Teaching Area / Environment
Andrea Crossan is the winner of two RTDNA Edward R. Murrow awards for news documentaries and she led a national newsroom in the U.S. to win a number of awards including the RTDNA Kaleidoscope and Gracie awards. Crossan was also part of the RTDNA award-winning team that produced the CBC Vancouver Land Back podcast. She was also a 2022/2023 Asper Visiting Professor at UBC where she co-taught the Global Reporting Program.
Andrea Crossan holds a master's degree in International Journalism from City, University of London with a specialism in Environment Journalism.
Andrea Crossan is a veteran radio journalist with over 30 years of experience. She's reported from over 20 countries and has been based in the U.S. and the U.K. Crossan has worked for the BBC World Service, CBC News, Associated Press, and NBC News. As a radio journalist, Crossan produced and reported stories on gender rights around the globe, including travelling to Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Uganda, Ukraine, South Africa, Pakistan, India, Brazil, and Kenya. Crossan also produced extensive coverage of immigration issues from the U.S. border and Mexico.
Crossan is currently the executive director of the Global Reporting Centre (GRC), an award-winning journalism centre based out of UBC. She grew up in North Vancouver and is a proud member of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation.
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- Lecturer
- Research / Teaching Area
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- Executive Editor of the Global Reporting Centre
- Research / Teaching Area
- Sessional Lecturer
Britney Dennison is the executive editor of the Global Reporting Centre (GRC), an award-winning journalism centre based at the University of British Columbia School's of Journalism, Writing, and Media. She has been with the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media since 2014, and with GRC...Read more
Britney Dennison is the executive editor of the Global Reporting Centre (GRC), an award-winning journalism centre based at the University of British Columbia School's of Journalism, Writing, and Media. She has been with the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media since 2014, and with GRC since its inception in 2016. Her work has won several awards including five Edward R. Murrow awards, an Online Journalism award, and a Canadian Association of Journalists award.
Her work has appeared in major media outlets, including NBC News, PBS NewsHour, Mother Jones, the PBS series FRONTLINE, the Toronto Star and more. Britney is also a sessional instructor for the Global Reporting Program at the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media at UBC where she has lead student fieldwork in a number of countries, including Cambodia, Peru, and Norway. Her work focuses on multi-media journalism, including video production, digital design, photography, and feature writing. Britney's work also specializes in community-engaged reporting. She produced the award-winning video series, Turning Points, for PBS NewsHour, which piloted the Centre's new approach to reporting called ‘empowerment journalism.'
Britney holds a Master of Journalism degree from UBC and a Bachelor of Arts in visual arts and English, language, and literature.
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- Associate Faculty
- Canada Research Chair in Indigenous
- Founding Board Member of Tu'Dese'Cho Wholistic Indigenous Leadership Development Society
- Member of the American Academy of Arts
- Research / Teaching Area / Environment
Callison, "Calling it a crisis isn't enough (if it ever was)," Nieman Lab Predictions, 2020
Young and Callison, "When gender, colonialism and technology matter in a journalism startup," Journalism, 2017
Callison and Hermida, "Dissent and Resonance: #Idlenomore as an emergent middle ground," Canadian Journal of Communication, 2016
Candis Callison is the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous journalism, media, and public discourse, and an Associate Professor jointly appointed in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies. She is also an associate faculty in the School of Jo...Read more
Candis Callison is the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous journalism, media, and public discourse, and an Associate Professor jointly appointed in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies. She is also an associate faculty in the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media. Her research and teaching are focused on changes to media practices, the rise and persistence of Indigenous journalism on digital platforms, journalism ethics, the role of Indigenous and environment-focused social movements in public discourse, and understanding how climate change becomes meaningful for diverse publics.
Candis is the co-author of Reckoning: Journalism's Limits and Possibilities (Oxford University Press, 2020), which draws on five years of research with journalists in the U.S. and Canada at a variety of news organizations including startups, legacy media, and freelancers. For more on this book, see this interview in The Narwhal or listen to this two-part interview on Media Indigena.
Candis' first book, How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts (Duke University Press, 2014) used ethnographic methods and a comparative lens to bring together the work of science journalists, scientists, and three distinct social groups that are outside environmental movement and policy frameworks in an American context. Candis was a founding co-director of the new Center for Climate Justice at UBC, and a co-author on the Social Systems and Justice chapter of the 5 th US National Climate Assessment released in 2023.
An alumna of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Candis holds a Ph.D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society, and a Master of Science in Comparative Media Studies. She was the speaker at MIT's 2018 Investiture of Doctoral Hoods.
In 2019, Candis became a member of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was a visiting professor at Princeton University in 2018-2019 as the Pathy Distinguished Visitor in Canadian Studies. While at Princeton, she co-convened the International Symposium on Climate Change and Indigenous Communities. Candis was a Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Fellow from 2019-2021.
Candis is Tahltan (Tałtan), an Indigenous people located in what is now Northwestern British Columbia. She is a regular contributor on the podcast, Media Indigena. Candis also regularly speaks to news media and podcasters about issues related to Indigenous concerns and social movements, climate change, and journalism ethics.
Candis is a founding board member of Tu'dese'cho Wholistic Indigenous Leadership Development Society (T-WILD), the first Tałtan non-government organization, created to provide Tałtan people with land-based learning, leadership development, and cultural programming. In 2020, as part of T-WILD, Candis was a contributor to Our Ancestors' Trail Exhibition at UBC.
Candis sits on the board of The Narwhal, an award-winning non-profit journalism organization supported by its members. In 2020, Candis was the recipient of the Bill Good Award from the Jack Webster Foundation, which "honours a B.C. individual or organization that makes a significant contribution to journalism in the province, or addresses a community's needs and benefits via journalism."
Prior to her academic work, Candis produced, wrote, and reported for television, the Internet, and radio in Canada (CBC, CTV) and the United States (Lycos, Tech TV). Candis was the original host and co-creator of First Story, the first news and current affairs series on Indigenous issues to be broadcast nationally in Canada on CTV; it was later syndicated to APTN. For her early concurrent work in media convergence, Candis was profiled in the 2003 book, Technology with Curves: Women Reshaping the Digital Landscape. Her independently produced film, Traditional Renaissance was included in UBC Museum of Anthropology's 2003-04 exhibition on Tałtan culture, "Mehodihi: Our Great Ancestors Lived that Way."
Candis is currently wrapping up a decade-long research project on Arctic Journalism that uses multiple research methods to examine changing professional norms, practices and standards for Canadian Arctic journalists working in an era of environmental change and global audiences. Since the project launched in 2014, research assistants have jointly conducted ethnographic research, completed a portion of their required Master of Journalism summer internships in the three northern Canadian territories, and provided live reporting and media analysis during the COP21 meetings in Paris.
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- Research / Teaching Area
- Sessional Lecturer
Connor Byrne has Ph.D. in English literature from Dalhousie University, where he completed a dissertation examining depictions of the city in early twentieth-century British and American literature. His research interests include modernism, modernist literary theory, urban studies, and theories of everyday life.
Working at Dalhousie University, MacEwan University, and The King's University, Dr Byrne has taught such courses as The City in Literature, Twentieth-Century Africa-American Literature, and the Novels of Jane Austen. He has also taught extensively within introductory courses in literary study, writing, and academic research.
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- Lecturer
- Research / Teaching Area
Dennis Foung is a lecturer in Arts Studies in Research and Writing (ASRW). He holds a doctorate in language education and a number of academic qualifications in the fields of language studies, human resource management and development, professional and vocational education, and data science. Prior t...Read more
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- Continuing Sessional Lecturer
- Research / Teaching Area
Diane Burgess completed her PhD in Communication at Simon Fraser University, where her dissertation examined the international film festival as a major institutional force in Canadian cinema culture. Her research interests include national cinema, cultural policy, multi-platform distribution, and the formation of screen cultures. Her most recent projects include a co-authored book chapter on methodological issues in film festival research, and an article about the global phenomenon of the Internet Cat Video Festival (#catvidfest).
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- Associate Professor of Archival Science at the School of Information / Donna Logan
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- Research / Teaching Area / Media Studies Rhetorical Genre Theory Social Media WRDS ( Writing Studies )
- Sessional Lecturer
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- Assistant Professor
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Dr. Alexis McGee received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at San Antonio where she also received two certificates of concentration in Linguistics and Rhetoric and Composition.
Drawing from this background, McGee is an interdisciplinary scholar who engages with various fields and sub-disciplines such as Rhetoric, Composition/Writing Studies, Black Studies, Critical Pedagogies, Sound Studies, as well as Women and Gender Studies. Her concentrated research interests, more specifically, focus on Black women's rhetorical uses of voice, literacies, and expression.
McGee's forthcoming book, From Blues to Beyoncé: A Century of Black Women's Generational Sonic Rhetorics, (SUNY 2024), amplifies Black women's ongoing public assertions of resistance, agency, and hope across different media from the nineteenth century to today. By examining recordings, music videos, autobiographical writings, and speeches, Alexis McGee explores how figures such as Ida B. Wells, Billie Holiday, Ruth Brown, Queen Latifah, Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Janelle Monáe, and more mobilize sound to challenge antiBlack discourses and extend social justice pedagogies. Building on contemporary Black feminist interventions in sound studies and sonic rhetorics, From Blues to Beyoncé reveals how Black women's sonic acts transmit meaning and knowledge within, between, and across generations.
Her work has been featured on BBC Radio4 and published in various venues including College, Composition, and Communication (forthcoming, 2022); constellations (2021); Rhetoric Society Quarterly (2021); Rhetoric Review (2021); Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (2018); Obsidian (2017); and Pedagogy (2016). Some of her other works can be found in What Is "College-Level" Writing? 2.0. (forthcoming); NCTE/CCCC: Teaching, Organizing, and Learning in the Contemporary Freedom Struggle (forthcoming); Sensory Rhetorics: (Re)Making Sense in Perilous Times (forthcoming); Beyoncé, Black Feminism, and Spirituality: The Lemonade Reader, (2019); The Lauryn Hill Reader (2018); Racial Shorthand: Coded Discrimination Contested in Social Media (2018); St. James Encyclopedia of Hip Hop (2018); and Critical Survey of American Literature (2016).
She currently teaches WRDS 150A and WRDS 350 (including a special section of 350 designed for interdisciplinary students). Dr. McGee has also created a new WRDS 450 course that focuses on writing for public audiences and publications; this course is expected to be offered at UBC for the first time during Winter 1 2024. She has also taught undergraduate courses in Professional and Technical Writing; Introduction to Women and Gender Studies; and Advanced Composition as well as graduate courses in History of Rhetoric; AntiRacist Critical Composition; Research Methods; and Black Essay Writing elsewhere.
Dr. Alexis McGee received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at San Antonio where she also received two certificates of concentration in Linguistics and Rhetoric and Composition. Drawing from this background, McGee is an interdisciplinary scholar who engages with various fields and sub-discip...Read more
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- Research
- Research / Teaching Area
- Sessional Lecturer
Originally from Aotearoa New Zealand, Dr. David Newman is a pedagogical innovator residing, playing, and working as a guest and settler on the traditional lands of the Coast Salish peoples. His long journey to accomplishing his PhD began with reading a footnote in an Australian film history book referring to a 1927 US Bureau of Commerce report on the New Zealand film industry, and curiosity as to why the US government would publishing such a report. Thus began a quest that some 25 years later, after having travelled well in-excess of 100,000 km visiting archives in seven countries, and accumulating over 100,000 digital pages of archival records, he completed his PhD in Communication at Simon Fraser University with a study investigating the resistance against Hollywood in the British Colonial Asia-Pacific during the 1920s and 30s.
Creativity alchemist, facilitator, coach, entrepreneur, media historian, political economist Originally from Aotearoa New Zealand, Dr. David Newman is a pedagogical innovator residing, playing, and working as a guest and settler on the traditional lands of the Coast Salish peoples. His long journ...Read more
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- Research / Teaching Area
- Sessional Lecturer
Dr. Dilia Hasanova is an applied linguist with a PhD in English and MS in Education from Purdue University, IN, USA. Dilia has extensive experience in teaching academic writing and research at various institutions in Canada and abroad. Her research interests are broad, ranging from sociolinguistics, multilingualism, language use, and language variation to ethnographies of speaking and second language acquisition. Dilia's research efforts are dedicated to applying a range of linguistic, educational, and teaching theories in an effort to understand complex and interconnected sociolinguistic and educational problems. She is particularly interested in examining the factors that affect people's linguistic behaviour. Dilia's research articles and book chapters have appeared in international referred journals such as TESOL Quarterly, World Englishes, and English Today.
Dr. Dilia Hasanova is an applied linguist with a PhD in English and MS in Education from Purdue University, IN, USA. Dilia has extensive experience in teaching academic writing and research at various institutions in Canada and abroad. Her research interests are broad, ranging from sociolinguistic...Read more
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- Lecturer
- Research / Teaching Area
Dr. Jennifer M. Gagnon (she/her/hers) (PhD, Political Science, University of Minnesota, BA, University of British Columbia) is a Lecturer in the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She has taught in a wide range of programs including Political Scienc...Read more
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- Associate Professor of Teaching
- Research / Teaching Area
Dr. Katja Thieme analyzes contemporary and historical Canadian writing from a rhetorical and genre-theoretical perspective. In previous work, she studied the discourse of the Canadian women's suffrage movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In publications on the genres of the...Read more
Dr. Laura Baumvol is a lecturer at the UBC School of Journalism, Writing, and Media. She has taught a range of discipline-specific communication courses, as well as research and academic writing courses in Canadian and international institutions for over fifteen years. Her research interests are sch...
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- Chairman of WRDS, and Assistant Professor of Teaching
Dr. Rebecca Carruthers Den Hoed is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media at UBC. Her teaching and research are focused on academic discourse, academic writing across the disciplines, research genres and genre instruction, team based learning (TBL) in writ...
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- Research / Teaching Area
- Sessional Lecturer
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- Adjunct Professor
- Journalist
- Research / Teaching Area
Frances Bula is a journalist specializing in urban issues and city politics in the Vancouver region, which she's covered since 1994. She covers a broad range of issues in this endlessly changing city: drug policy, bike lanes, billion-dollar development projects, homelessness, garbage debates, and mo...Read more
Frances Bula is a journalist specializing in urban issues and city politics in the Vancouver region, which she's covered since 1994. She covers a broad range of issues in this endlessly changing city: drug policy, bike lanes, billion-dollar development projects, homelessness, garbage debates, and more.
She writes frequently for the Globe and Mail's B.C. section and Report on Business. From 2008 to 2015, she had a regular column in Vancouver magazine, Urban Fix, for which she won regional and national awards. Other publications Bula has written for include the Vancouver Sun (where she worked for 20 years), BCBusiness, Canadian Architect, Canadian Business, University Affairs, the American website Citiscope, Literary Review of Canada, South China Morning Post, The National in Abu Dhabi, the Georgia Straight, Western Living, Homemakers, and the Guardian. As well, she does political commentary for Radio Canada, CBC Radio, and CKNW.
Bula has been a journalism teacher since 1995. At the UBC School of Journalism, Bula works with students on basic research, interviewing, story-development and writing skills. She is also the former chair of the journalism department at Langara College and continues to teach there, sending students out to the community report on local cities and their doings in her Civic Reporting class.
Bula has an honours bachelor's degree in French literature from UBC and a master's in communications from SFU. She's won several journalism awards and fellowships over the years, including a three-month Asia Pacific Foundation fellowship that allowed her to live in China for three months in 1990. She also won a one-year fellowship from the Atkinson Foundation in 1999 that allowed her to study homelessness and affordable-housing options around the word. Her work was published in the Toronto Star and can still be accessed through the Atkinson Foundation's website.
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- Adjunct Professor
- Freelance Investigative and Data Journalist
- Research / Teaching Area
Francesca Fionda is a freelance investigative and data journalist. Her past stories have uncovered fake Indigenous art in the tourism industry, exposed government failures in protecting sensitive health information and revealed new, in-depth data on Canada's mobile workforce.
She's worked with investigative teams across the country including CBC, Global, CTV and the Institute of Investigative Journalism as well as the small-but-mighty; The Discourse, Attention Control Podcast and Canada's National Observer. When she isn't reporting or teaching journalism at BCIT and UBC, she's trying to find her way out of an escape room.
Francesca is a first-generation settler of Filipino and Italian ancestry. She lives, reports and teaches on the the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Francesca Fionda is a freelance investigative and data journalist. Her past stories have uncovered fake Indigenous art in the tourism industry, exposed government failures in protecting sensitive health information and revealed new, in-depth data on Canada's mobile workforce. She's worked wit...Read more
J.B. MacKinnon is the author or coauthor of four books of nonfiction. His latest, The Once and Future World, is a national bestseller in Canada and won the U.S. Green Prize for Sustainable Literature. Previous works are The 100-Mile Diet (with Alisa Smith), a bestseller widely recognized as a cat...Read more
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- Associate Professor of Teaching
- Associated Professor
- Research / Teaching Area
Jaclyn Rea is an Associated Professor teaching in Writing, Research and Discourse Studies. Her areas of expertise include language ideologies, writing studies, rhetorical genre studies, and discourse analysis. Her current research investigates the interplay between epistemology and affect in a range of academic, public, and workplace genres. She is also working on a project that examines the sorts of knowledge, learned in WRDS 150, that students apply to their writing in their 3rd and 4th years of study.
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- President, Mainstream Broadcasting Corp
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- Adjunct Professor
- Research / Teaching Area
As a freelance journalist, MacKinnon is currently a contributor to The New Yorker on consumer issues and ecology. His work also appears in publications ranging from National Geographic and Reader's Digest to vanguard outlets such as Adbusters and Nautilus. He has won more than a dozen national and international writing awards in categories as varied as essays, science writing, and travelogue. MacKinnon is an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia School of Journalism, Writing, and Media and regularly gives public lectures and writing workshops.
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- Lecturer
- Research / Teaching Area
Dr. Cowe earned her PhD in American Studies from the University of Glasgow. Her doctoral thesis focused on the influence of Zen Buddhist philosophy on the life and work of Henry Miller. A monograph derived from this research, entitled Killing the Buddha: Henry Miller's Long Journey to Satori, was ...Read more
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Associate Publisher, the Globe & Mail
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- Lecturer
- Research / Teaching Area
Jonathan earned a PhD in geography from the University of Kentucky in 2014, and taught in the International Studies Program and the Department of Global and Intercultural Studies (GIC) at Miami University in Ohio from 2014-2018. His research draws on work within political ecology and economic geog...Read more
Kamal Al-Solaylee is the author of the national bestselling memoir Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes which won the 2013 Toronto Book Award and was a finalist for the CBC's Canada Reads, the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the Lambda Literary Award for memoir/biography and th...
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- Associate Professor of Teaching
- Associate Professor of Teaching at the School
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- Lecturer
- Research / Teaching Area
Dr. Fitzpatrick received her BA from UBC, where she studied in the English Honours program. She went on to pursue her Masters and PhD in English at Brown University. Since graduating from Brown in 2017, she has taught writing and literature in the US and at UBC. She is particularly passionate ...Read more
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- Lecturer
- Research / Teaching Area
Kimberly Skye Richards is a settler scholar whose writing, teaching, activism, and artistic work engages performance as a vehicle for resisting extractivism and inspiring a just energy transition. She recently co-edited an issue of Canadian Theatre Review on "Extractivism and Performance" (April...Read more
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- Lecturer
- Research / Teaching Area
Kirby Manià earned a PhD in English from the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa) and holds a Master of Arts in Modern Literature and Culture from the University of York (United Kingdom). She has taught courses in the environment, literary studies, and academic writing at un...Read more
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- Adjunct Professor
- Media Executive
- Research / Teaching Area
Kirk LaPointe is a media executive who serves as Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Business in Vancouver (BIV) and Vice-President, Editorial, of the Glacier Media chain of publications across western Canada. He writes a twice-weekly column, hosts a podcast on business and politics and about two dozen...Read more
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- Research / Teaching Area
- Sessional Lecturer
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- Assistant Professor of Teaching
- Research / Teaching Area
Dr. Ferreira's pedagogical practice and research is informed by her background in print culture and interest in how media and communication processes intersect with human sensation, perception, and understanding. Her approach to the teaching and learning of academic discourse and communication is ...Read more
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- CBC News Reporter & Citizen Journalism Editor, UBC Journalism Alumna ‘04
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- Assistant Professor
- Research / Teaching Area
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- Associate Professor, UBC School of Community and Regional Planning ( SCARP )
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- Lecturer
- Research / Teaching Area
Mary Ann Saunders' teaching in WRDS is shaped in part by her research (outlined below) and by a writing studies pedagogy drawing on the insights of new rhetorical genre theory. Her WRDS 150 classes invite undergraduate students into the research culture of the university and gives them the tools the...Read more
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- Professor
- Research / Teaching Area
Office hours: by appointment Mary Lynn Young, PhD, is a full professor, co-founder and board member of The Conversation Canada, a national non-profit journalism organization, and affiliate of The Conversation global network. She has held a number of academic administrative positions at UBC, inclu...Read more
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- Lecturer
- Research / Teaching Area
Meredith Beales earned her PhD in English literature at Washington University in St Louis in 2015. Her doctoral work explored the uses and manipulations of history on the English stage; in particular, her dissertation focused on early modern English medievalism and the place of British antiquity i...Read more
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- Lecturer
- Research / Teaching Area
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- Vice President Corporate Development & Business Development, Later
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- Associate Professor
- Senior Advisor
Minelle Mahtani
Associate Professor, UBC Institute for Social Justice and Senior Advisor to the Provost on Racialized Faculty
Maged Senbel
Associate Professor, UBC School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP)
Mike Tippett
Vice President Corporate Development & Business Development, Later
Ori Tenenboim, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media. His main areas of interest include digital journalism, political communication, and media economics. Tenenboim investigates how journalists and news organizations blend older and newer norms, behaviours, a...
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- Emmy Award - Winning Journalist
- Professor
- Research / Teaching Area
Office hours: By appointment Peter W. Klein is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and full professor at the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media. He is executive director of the UBC Global Reporting Centre, and was director of the school from 2011 to 2015. He is also a faculty associate at the ...Read more
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- Chairman of WRDS, and Assistant Professor of Teaching
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- Research / Teaching Area
- Sessional Lecturer
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- Research / Teaching Area
- Sessional Lecturer
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
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- Continuing Sessional Lecturer
- Research / Teaching Area
Susan J. Blake has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from UBC (2001) and has done fieldwork and research on a number of Central Coast Salishan languages - most notably Sliammon, Homalco, and Downriver Halkomelem (Musqueam dialect). Her dissertation research focused on the distribution of schwa in Sliammon an...Read more
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- Lecturer
- Research / Teaching Area
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- Lecturer
- Research / Teaching Area
Thomas Bittner earned a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Washington in 1995, and since then he has taught at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Wellesley College, arriving at UBC in 2003. His research is mainly in the philosophy of mind, but he is also interested in ethical, le...Read more
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- Continuing Sessional Lecturer
- Research / Teaching Area
Uytae Lee is a columnist and filmmaker whose work covers the complex issues surrounding our cities. He's the creator of the CBC series ‘Stories About Here', where he explores topics such as underground streams, zoning reform, public washrooms, street-food, and much much more.
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- Associate Professor of Archival Science at the School of Information / Donna Logan
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Special Advisor to Former Premier Christy Clark and Former Councillor on the Musqueam Chief and Council
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- Research / Teaching Area
- Sessional Lecturer
William Green completed his PhD in English at UBC in 2018. His dissertation examined the literary aspects of the calculation of time in medieval England. In addition to time and temporality, his research interests include multilingualism in medieval England, medieval science, and historiography.