Christine Evans is Assistant Professor of Teaching in Cinema and Media Studies at UBC. Her pedagogic research focuses on bridging film theoretical, psychoanalytic and ideological approaches with evidence-based scholarly teaching in film and media studies. She has a particular interest in curriculum design, repurposing “traditional” teaching and evaluative practices and learning technologies. Her discipline-specific research focuses primarily on film theory, Lacanian psychoanalysis and the work of Slavoj Žižek. Her pedagogic and discipline-specific work has appeared in The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Film-Philosophy and The International Journal of Žižek Studies; her book in the series Film Thinks, Slavoj Žižek: A Cinematic Ontology, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury.

Cat Prueitt is Assistant Professor in the UBC Department of Philosophy. Her research engages Classical Sanskrit philosophies with a focus on how these traditions contribute to our contemporary understanding of human experience. She works within the Classical Sanskrit pramāṇa framework, which focuses on what and how we can know about reality given our embodied position within an intersubjective world. She finds that the seventh century Buddhist Dharmakīrti’s apoha (exclusion) theory of concept formation, especially as modified by the tenth-eleventh century Hindu Pratyabhijñā Śaiva tradition, offers compelling insights into fundamental questions surrounding the intersubjective world construction, the nature of agency and the ethical implications of how we form our worlds.

Adele Ruosi is a science education specialist in physics and astronomy, advises faculty instructors on pedagogical improvements, curriculum revisions and teaching effectiveness at UBC. She actively promotes equity, diversity and inclusion in teaching. Beyond her advisory and research work, Rouse teaches physics, science communication, and physics education courses. As a foreigner and a woman in physics, she fosters appreciation for other cultures and encourages underrepresented groups in physics.

Bronwen Tate is the author of the poetry collection The Silk the Moths Ignore. She is Associate Professor of Teaching and Undergraduate Chair in the School of Creative Writing at UBC, where she offers courses in poetry, creative nonfiction, creative writing pedagogy, creative process and literary translation. A Practical Guide to Teaching Creating Writing: Supporting Inclusive Pedagogy, a collaboration with UBC colleague John Vigna, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic in Spring 2026.