Katharine M. Bubel, PhD

Assistant Professor

  • 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)

  • 2024-25 SSHRC Exchange Grant: “Western Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature” ($6,924) - Principal Investigator: Sara Pearson; Co-applicants: Katharine Bubel, Holly Faith Nelson, Laura Van Dyke
  • 2023-24 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, Jessica Walters
  • 2013 Graduate Student Support Fund Travel Grant, Dept. of English, University of Victoria
  • 2012 Graduate Student Support Fund Travel Grant, Dept. of English, University of Victoria
  • 2012 Graduate Student Travel Grant, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Victoria
  • 2010 Graduate Student Travel Grant, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Victoria
  • 2009-12 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Joseph-Armand Bombardier
  • Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral ($35,000 per annum for three years)
  • 2008 SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship - Master’s ($17,500 for one year)

Awards & Honors

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

Recent Publications

Selected Publications

  • w/ Holly Faith Nelson, Laura Van Dyke, Jessica Walters. Preface: “The Gift of the Land.” ConVersing/ConServing: The Gift of the Land, Fern Hill Publications, 2024, pp. 5-10.
  • w/ Holly Faith Nelson. “Discordia Concors: The Poetry of Louise Imogen Guiney.” Borderlands: The Art and Scholarship of Louise Imogen Guiney, Ed. Jonathan Nauman and Holly Faith Nelson, The Vaughan Association, 2021, pp. 70-104.
  • “Daemonic Dread, Libido Dominandi, and Ordinate Love: Stances to Nature in Till We Have Faces.” The Inklings and Culture: A Harvest of New Scholarship from the Inklings Institute of Canada, edited by Monika B. Hilder, Sara L. Pearson, and Laura N. Van Dyke, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020, pp. 275-89.
  • “‘The Longing’: Alienation, Place and the Desire for Home.” A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke, edited by William Barillas. Ohio University Press, 2020, pp. 222-35.
  • “Robinson Jeffers.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Gen ed. Stephen Ross. Oxford: 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, vol. 28, 2015, pp. 134-48.
  • “Nature and Wise Vision in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.” Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, vol. 62, no. 2, 2010, pp. 117-40.

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

(*Graduate – Cross Listed)

Graduate Courses and Directed Studies:

  • 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)
  • ENGL 600 Reading the Times: Text and Interpretation, MAIH (Fall 2018)