Katharine M. Bubel, PhD

Assistant Professor of English

  • PhD, English (University of Victoria; 2018)
  • MA Interdisciplinary Humanities, English Stream (Trinity Western University; 2009)

Expertise

American Literature; 20th and 21st-century poetry; Literatures of the West Coast; Literature and Christianity; Literary Theory; Ecocriticism (esp. place studies)

  • SSHRC Exchange Grant, Western Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature ($6,924). Principal Investigator: Sara Pearson; Co-applicants: Katharine Bubel, Holly Faith Nelson, and Laura Van Dyke. (2024–2025)
  • SSHRC Explore Grant, ConVersing/ConServing: Ecopoiesis and Place-Sensitive Knowledge in the TWU Ecosystem Study Area ($5,500). Principal Investigator: Katharine Bubel; Co-applicants: Holly Faith Nelson, Laura Van Dyke, and Jessica Walters. (2023–2024)
  • Graduate Student Support Fund Travel Grant, Department of English, University of Victoria. (2013)
  • Graduate Student Support Fund Travel Grant, Department of English, University of Victoria. (2012)
  • Graduate Student Travel Grant, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Victoria. (2012)
  • Graduate Student Travel Grant, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Victoria. (2010)
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Doctoral ($35,000 per annum for three years). (2009–2012)
  • SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship, Master's ($17,500 for one year). (2008)

Awards & Honours

  • Department of English Nominee for the Governor General's Gold Medal, University of Victoria. (2018)
  • Nominated for the Davis Distinguished Teaching Award, Trinity Western University. (2014)
  • Nominated for the Provost's Innovative Teaching Award, Trinity Western University. (2013)
  • Mairi Riddell Memorial Book Prize, Department of English, University of Victoria. (2010)
  • Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC) Graduate Student Presentation Award. (2010)
  • Graduate Award, University of Victoria ($3,000). (2009)
  • Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, MAIH, Trinity Western University. (2009)
  • Great Distinction, BA, Trinity Western University. (2007)

Recent Publications

Selected Publications

  • Nelson, H. F., Van Dyke, L., & Walters, J. Preface: "The Gift of the Land." In ConVersing/ConServing: The Gift of the Land (pp. 5-10). Fern Hill Publications. (2024).
  • Nelson, H. F. "Discordia Concors: The Poetry of Louise Imogen Guiney." In J. Nauman & H. F. Nelson (Eds.), Borderlands: The Art and Scholarship of Louise Imogen Guiney (pp. 70-104). The Vaughan Association. (2021)
  • "Daemonic Dread, Libido Dominandi, and Ordinate Love: Stances to Nature in Till We Have Faces." In M. B. Hilder, S. L. Pearson, & L. N. Van Dyke (Eds.), The Inklings and Culture: A Harvest of New Scholarship from the Inklings Institute of Canada (pp. 275-289). Cambridge Scholars Publishing. (2020)
  • "'The Longing': Alienation, Place and the Desire for Home." In W. Barillas (Ed.), A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke (pp. 222-235). Ohio University Press. (2020)
  • "Robinson Jeffers." In S. Ross (Gen. Ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Routledge. (2016)
  • "'The Terrible, the Merciful, the Mothers': Tracing Wisdom in Merton's Hagia Sophia and Malick's The Tree of Life." The Merton Annual, 28, 134-148. (2015)
  • "Nature and Wise Vision in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins." Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, 62(2), 117-140. (2010)

Affiliations & Memberships

  • Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English
  • Association for Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada
  • Christianity and Literature Study Group
  • Inklings Institute of Canada
  • International Thomas Merton Society
  • Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
  • Robinson Jeffers Association
  • Western Literature Association

Undergraduate Courses:

  • ENGL 103 Introduction to Poetry and Short Fiction (Spring 2011)
  • ENGL 103 Introduction to Fiction (Fall 2019)
  • ENGL 104 Introduction to Poetry and Drama (Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2017, Spring 2020)
  • ENGL 210 Introduction to Literary Studies (Fall 2024)
  • ENGL 223 Introduction to American Literature (Spring 2015, Fall 2020, Fall 2023)
  • ENGL 224/324 Introduction to American Literature (Spring 2023)
  • ENGL 316/516 Poetry in the Twentieth Century (Fall 2019, Fall 2022, Fall 2024*)
  • ENGL 390 Individual Authors: Poetry, Place, Spiritual Practices: Hopkins, Merton and Friends (Summer 2022)
  • ENGL 390/590 Individual Authors: No Place Like Home (Summer 2023*)
  • ENGL 390/590 Literature and the Environment (Spring 2024*)
  • ENGL 334/534 European Literature in Translation (Fall 2021*, Spring 2024)
  • ENGL 412 20th-Century American Literature (Fall 2023)
  • ENGL 414/514 Literature and Spirituality: Making Nature Sacred (Spring 2021*)
  • ENGL 490 Literary Theory I (Spring 2021, Spring 2023)
  • ENGL 495 Critical Approaches to Literature (Fall 2023) – formerly Literary Theory I and II (Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Summer DS 2022)
  • Foundations 201 Ideas That Inspire (Fall 2019-Fall 2022 – every semester)

(*Graduate – Cross Listed)

Graduate Courses and Directed Studies:

  • ENGL 600 Reading the Times: Text and Interpretation, MAIH (Fall 2018)
  • ENGL 607 Post-Revolution Russian Literature in Translation, Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Humanities (Spring 2024)
  • ENGL 607 20th-Century American Literature: Places in the Heart of America, MAIH (Fall 2023)
  • ENGL 607 Interfaith Literature, MAIH (Spring 2022)
  • ENGL 607 Literary Theory and Criticism, MAIH (Spring 2020)
  • ENGL 607 American Literature, MAIH (Summer 2018)