Oliver Lovesey
| Dr. Oliver Lovesey Associate Professor, English Chair, English Program Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Arts Building, ART151 University of British Columbia Okanagan Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7 Phone: 250.807.9385 |
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I mainly work on Victorian fiction and also postcolonial (primarily African) fiction, as well as the history of the novel genre. These are my main areas, but I also have an interest in popular music, particularly in international, auto/biographical, and narrative contexts. I am interested in working on projects with honours and grad students with similar interests.
I have published monographs on George Eliot and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. I recently edited Victorian Social Activists’ Novels, part of a SSHRC-funded project, and I am editing Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o in the MLA’s popular Approaches to Teaching World Literature series. I have another monograph on Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o under contract. A selected list of my publications and presentations may be found at the link.
I have taught on three continents and at UBC, Okanagan Campus since its inception in 2005. I teach a range of courses: the Victorian Novel (Engl 445); the English Novel in the 18th-Century (Engl 433); Studies in the Backgrounds to Victorian Literature: 19th-Century Contexts (non-fictional prose) (Engl 364B); Major Authors of the 19th-Century (Tennyson, Eliot, and Wilde) (Engl 449D). I have taught a grad class at UBCO on George Eliot in Victorian Cultural and Intellectual Contexts (IGS 530M) and another grad course on Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: The Postcolonial Wizard (Engl 532C/ IGS 530C) in the winter of 2011. I also teach Engl 151 (Novel and Short Story) and Engl 221 (Literature Survey).
I am presently the Chair of the English Program, which offers an English Major, English Honours, and English MA program.
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