People

Faculty
Current Faculty

Brandon Konoval

Brandon Konoval

Associate Professor, Music and Arts One

phone604 822 5687
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Research and Teaching Area

Music Theory
I joined Arts One in 1999 and have remained with the program ever since, while cross-appointed with the UBC School of Music. Arts One has been a tremendously rewarding and enriching place in which to teach and to think, providing me with wonderful opportunities to get to know both students and colle...Read more

Research and Teaching Area

Music Theory

Gavin Paul

Gavin Paul

Instructor, English and Arts One

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Gavin Paul’s research interests centre on Shakespeare and early modern drama. His work on the intersections of editorial practice, textual theory, and performance history has appeared in The Review of English Studies, Shakespeare: The Journal of the British Shakespeare Association, The Bulletin...Read more

Jason Lieblang

Jason Lieblang

Director of First-Year and Interdisciplinary Programs for Arts

phone604 822 5154
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Jason Lieblang holds a PhD in Germanic Languages and Literatures from the University of Toronto and is tenured faculty in UBC’s CENES Department. He is a former Arts One instructor (Seeing and Knowing 2015-17) and has been director of First-Year Programs (Arts One and CAP) since 2021. His research and teaching interests are broad, but highlights include language learning in virtual reality and the German horror film....Read more

Joy Dixon

Joy Dixon

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Arts One Chair and Associate Professor, History and Arts One

phone604 822 5748
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Joy Dixon is an Associate Professor in the History Department here at UBC. They teach European history, world history, the history of religion, the history of gender and sexuality, and historiography – the history of how we write and think about the past. Their first book – Divine Feminine: Theo...Read more

Robert Crawford

Robert Crawford

Associate Professor, Political Science and Arts One

phone604 822 3009
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Robert Crawford holds a PhD in Political Science (UBC 1995), and works in the area of international Relations, political philosophy, and international political economy. He has a particular interest in the role of national identity in framing the study and teaching of International Relations (IR) as...Read more