We want to bring together a diverse range of academic perspectives to enrich the experience of students pursuing interdisciplinary pathways.
The Interdisciplinary Scholars can serve as mentors, helping you develop and carry out your unique academic trajectories across disciplinary boundaries.
Alfred Hermida, Professor in the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media
email alfred.hermida@ubc.ca
Research interests: Transformation of media, journalism innovation, and AI
Farid Laroussi, Professor and Associate Graduate Advisor in the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies
email farid.laroussi@ubc.ca
Research interests: Literatures and Cultures in French
Jason Lieblang, Associate Professor of Teaching and Director of Undergraduate Studies – Modern European, Nordic, & Slavic and Eastern European Studies
email jason.lieblang@ubc.ca
Research interests: Curriculum design, emerging technologies in foreign language learning, translation, teaching with and about comics, gender and sexuality in the theatre, the culture of the Weimar Republic, and horror cinema
Alexis McGee, Associate Professor in the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media
email alexis.mcgee@ubc.ca
Research interests: Black feminist rhetorical theory, Black rhetorics, language and literacies, sound studies, as well as rhetoric and composition theory and history
Biz Nijdam, Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies
email biz.nijdam@ubc.ca
Research interests: Representation of history in comics, comics and new media on forced migration, intersections between Indigenous studies and German, European, and migration studies, and feminist methodologies in the graphic arts
Alix Ohlin, Professor in the School of Creative Writing
email alix.ohlin@ubc.ca
Research interests: Climate writing, fiction, and non-fiction
Kim Snowden, Associate Professor of Teaching and Undergraduate Co-Chair and Advisor in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
email kim.snowden@ubc.ca
Research interests: Cultural studies, literary studies, film studies, popular culture, and fairy tale studies
Alex Tavasoli, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering
email alex.tavasoli@ubc.ca
Research interests: Industrial decarbonization, community-based and/or distributed infrastructure, chemical and materials manufacturing processes, carbon dioxide capture and conversion, photocatalysis
Matthew Tomkinson, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies
email mtomkins@mail.ubc.ca
Research interests: Theatre studies, musical composition, cinema studies, and disability studies
Dante Prado, PhD Candidate in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies
email dante.prado@ubc.ca
Research interests: Late 18th through 20th-centry German literature, culture, and philosophy. In particular, modernist works and the relationship between laughter and culture
Charlotte Taylor, PhD Student in the School of Community and Regional Planning
email charlotte.taylor@ubc.ca
Research interests: Climate justice, environmental planning, and community-owned energy
Sydney Bear, graduate student in the Master of Public Health in the School of Population and Public Health