Laura Moss

Laura Moss is a Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia's Faculty of Arts. She currently serves as Joint Faculty Representative on the UBC Senate (2024-) and previously held the position of Associate Dean, Students in the Faculty of Arts (2020-2023). Her scholarship focuses on Canadian and postcolonial literatures, with particular expertise in African literatures and environmental humanities.

Education:

• BA from the University of Toronto
• MA from the University of Guelph
• PhD from Queen's University

Professor Moss's research spans Critical Race Studies, Environmental Humanities, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Indigenous Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetics, and Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies. Her current project, "Climate Warnings: The Power of Canadian Environmental Art, Literature, and Creative Activism," examines how Canadian artists and writers engage with environmental crises. Her scholarly work demonstrates a consistent commitment to interrogating the intersections of literature, politics, and identity formation across national contexts, with particular attention to Canadian and African literary traditions.

Professor Moss has received significant recognition for her scholarly contributions, including:

• UBC Killam Teaching Prize (2013)
• Prize for the Best Edited Collection in Canadian Studies by the Canadian Studies Network (2021)
• Scholarly and Research Communication Journal Innovation Award (2019)

Moss has supervised numerous graduate students working on diverse topics including Post-multiculturalism, the Newfoundland diaspora, South Asian Canadian Literature, South African Protest Writing, Nineteenth-century Women's Nature Writing, and Urban Writing in Vancouver. She has served in significant editorial roles including Editor-in-Chief of Canadian Literature (2015-2020) and as a contributing editor to Canlitguides.ca for nine years. Her leadership extends to academic governance as she served as Academic Convenor of Congress 2019 (with over 10,000 attendees) and Chair of the UBC Canadian Studies Program (2008-2011). She also held the Brenda and David McLean Chair in Canadian Studies at UBC (2019-2021).