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THE ESA POETRY COLLECTION
Are you an aspiring poet? Do you want to share your works with the UBC community? Now’s your chance! In response to the growing number of aspiring writers here at UBC, the ESA is excited to host our first ever creative conference, The Poetry Collection. We welcome all aspiring poets to participate in this event and gain some experience having their works presented to an audience and also, to have the opportunity to be featured on our website! The first component of this event is a virtual submission form. Here, we request that poets submit their works using a Word or PDF document in order for their works to be…
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Meet the Profs 2018
A huge thank you to everyone who came out to our Meet the Profs event – both profs and students! An extra special thank you goes out to all the professors who stayed to chat with students, including: Elizabeth Hodgson Y-Dang Troeung Miranda Burgess Scott MacKenzie Deanna Kreisel We hope everyone enjoyed the icebreaker questions – who doesn’t want to know how much caffeine everyone else consumes on a daily basis, or what your profs’ biggest pet peeves are for student essays? Our top event highlights: Finding out how late everyone else has stayed up to finish writing an essay – good to know we’re not alone (courtesy of…
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‘Meet the Profs: They Came from Buchanan Tower’ Recap!
On October 11th, the ESA hosted our second event of the year, Meet the Profs: They Came from Buchanan Tower! We are very lucky in the Department of English to have such easy access to a wealth of intelligent, funny, and personable faculty. This year, we were grateful for the presence of: Dr. Siân Echard, Head of the English Department Dr. Alex Dick, Chair of the Majors Program Dr. Laura Moss Dr. Judith Paltin Dr. Robert Rouse Dr. Rick Gooding Dr. Ian Hill Dr. Barbara Dancygier Dr. Chris Lee Dr. Jessica de Villiers Thank you so much to all of you for joining the ESA at this special event. We…
