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Lee wins Fairclough Teaching Prize
Tara Lee is the winner of the Ian Fairclough Teaching Prize for 2014-15. Tara's students in both ENGL 100 and 112 are full of praise for her high standards, energy, dedication, and commitment to helping them improve.
After completing a BComm in Accounting, Tara decided to change career paths and pursue instead her passion for English literature, writing, and teaching. In 2006, she completed her PhD (SFU) in Asian Canadian literature, with teaching specialities in Canadian Literature and 18th-century British Literature. She has been teaching at UBC since then, and currently focuses on critical race studies, dystopian literature, YA literature, techno/new media studies, Canadian literature, and academic writing. Of her teaching, Tara says "My primary aim as a teacher is to make connections between the classroom and the world beyond it, encouraging students to engage with and question the various multi-layered and -faceted "texts" they encounter." Tara recently co-edited Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase, a collection of essays on contemporary North American dystopian literature, with Brett Grubisic and Gisele Baxter. She is also a freelance food writer (The Georgia Straight), and volunteer for the Writers' Exchange, a literacy centre for inner-city children.
The Ian Fairclough Teaching Prize is awarded annually to a sessional lecturer in the Department of English and/or the UBC Writing Centre. The Prize was established in 1996 as a memorial to Ian W. Fairclough (1951-1995), who obtained his BA (Hons.) and MA in the Department of English, and taught as a sessional lecturer for a number of years both in the Department of English and in the UBC Writing Centre.
After completing a BComm in Accounting, Tara decided to change career paths and pursue instead her passion for English literature, writing, and teaching. In 2006, she completed her PhD (SFU) in Asian Canadian literature, with teaching specialities in Canadian Literature and 18th-century British Literature. She has been teaching at UBC since then, and currently focuses on critical race studies, dystopian literature, YA literature, techno/new media studies, Canadian literature, and academic writing. Of her teaching, Tara says "My primary aim as a teacher is to make connections between the classroom and the world beyond it, encouraging students to engage with and question the various multi-layered and -faceted "texts" they encounter." Tara recently co-edited Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase, a collection of essays on contemporary North American dystopian literature, with Brett Grubisic and Gisele Baxter. She is also a freelance food writer (The Georgia Straight), and volunteer for the Writers' Exchange, a literacy centre for inner-city children.
The Ian Fairclough Teaching Prize is awarded annually to a sessional lecturer in the Department of English and/or the UBC Writing Centre. The Prize was established in 1996 as a memorial to Ian W. Fairclough (1951-1995), who obtained his BA (Hons.) and MA in the Department of English, and taught as a sessional lecturer for a number of years both in the Department of English and in the UBC Writing Centre.
Submitted on August 17, 2015 in By David.
