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Marie Loughlin, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of English within the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. She has been teaching at UBC-Okanagan since 2005, following previous teaching positions at Okanagan University College (1993-95, 1998-2005) and the University of Calgary (1995-98). She also serves as an Associate member of the Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies Program at UBC-Okanagan, and is a member of both the Modern Languages Association and the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies.
Dr. Loughlin received her academic training at McMaster University (B.A. English Honours, 1985) and Queen's University (M.A. English, 1986; PhD. English, 1992). Her educational background has provided the foundation for her extensive research in early modern literature and women's writing.
Dr. Loughlin's research spans several interconnected areas within literary studies, with a particular focus on early modern literature. Her primary research interests include 16th-century poetry and prose, early modern women's writing, early modern drama, women's literature across historical periods, 16th and 17th-century literature, spiritual autobiography, speculative fiction, and feminist and queer theory. Notably, she has developed significant expertise in Tolkien studies, examining J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy works through various theoretical lenses. Her work bridges historical literary scholarship with contemporary theoretical approaches, creating innovative connections between early modern studies and modern fantasy literature.
Dr. Loughlin's scholarly output demonstrates a consistent trajectory of exploring gender, sexuality, and literary representation across historical periods. Her recent work has increasingly focused on genealogical writing by early modern women, examining how female authors constructed family lineages and personal histories within restrictive social frameworks. Simultaneously, her scholarship on Tolkien has developed into a substantial body of work that examines material culture in fantasy literature and queer readings of both the original texts and their cinematic adaptations. This dual focus on early modern women's writing and Tolkien studies represents a unique scholarly trajectory that connects historical literary analysis with contemporary cultural interpretation.
- 2016 Teaching Honour Roll Award, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus
- 2014 FCCS Service Award: Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, University of British Columbia-Okanagan
Dr. Loughlin has successfully secured significant research funding throughout her career, including internal grants from 1999-2016 for research on early modern women's writing and British women's post-WWII travel writing, as well as an SSHRC Standard Research Grant from 1997-2000 for her project 'Women Writing Virginity, 1590-1700.' She has supervised numerous graduate students, including Dana Penney (M.A. English, 2018-present) researching 'Rey, Nebula, Gamora, and Wonder Woman: The Woman Warrior, Bodies, Subjectivity and Gender in Popular Culture and Society,' Ashley Cail (M.A. English, 2014) who examined gender constructions in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, Danielle Wilgan (M.A. English, 2011) who studied Britomart in Spenser's Faerie Queene, and Melanie Oberg who completed an Honours English Thesis in 2015 on early modern gardens in Jonson, Lanyer, and Milton.
While specific laboratory or research team information is not explicitly mentioned in the available materials, Dr. Loughlin's extensive editorial work suggests collaborative scholarly engagement. Her role as Senior Editor for The Broadview Anthology of Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose indicates leadership in creating scholarly resources for teaching and research. Her current work on 'Figures of Descent: Genealogy and the Early Modern Woman Writer, c. 1580 – 1700' contracted with Routledge represents an ongoing major research project that likely involves collaboration with other scholars in the field.
