Greg Chan
BA (UBC), MA (UBC)
Combining marginalized voices, diasporic literature, and community engagement has been the focus of my teaching and research since I joined the English Department in 1995. In addition to teaching our second, third-, and fourth-year film studies courses, I am the Director of KDocsFF’s Community Outreach Program and the founder and Editor-in-chief of KPU’s official film studies journal, Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration. As a film studies specialist, my research interests include BIPOC representation in film, transtextuality, film festival studies, and documentary activism. My other specializations are digital humanities and service learning, which have involved teaching community-based practicum courses, co-presenting with students at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, and co-curating an English/Fine Arts ceramics exhibit on the Japanese Canadian internment now on permanent display at Historic Joy Kogawa House. I am honoured to be the recipient of the Faculty of Arts Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Award for 2021 and to have coordinated the KDocsFF Alice Street Legacy Mural that was raised in the library in 2023.
Courses taught
- ARTS 4800: Practicum
- ENGL 1100: Introduction to University Writing
- ENGL 1202: Reading and Writing about Selected Topics
- ENGL 2301: Canadian Literature in English
- ENGL 2350: Critical Studies in Film
- ENGL 3345: Diasporic Literatures ("Bridges, Not Walls")
- ENGL 3350: Literature and Film ("Amplifying BIPOC Voices")
- ENGL 4300: Writing and Persuasion Beyond the Classroom ("Apprenticeship in the Digital Humanities")
- ENGL 4350: Topics in Film Studies ("Asian Representation Matters")
- ENGL 4401: Topics in Canadian Literature ("Cinematic Canadian Literature")
- First-Year English Writing Labs