Emily Eaton (SHE/HER)

UBCO Undergraduate Researcher (2018-2023)

Teaching Assistant, Anthropology (2022-2023)

University of British Columbia | Okanagan Campus | Sylix Okanagan Nation Territory

Affiliations at UBCO: Department of Anthropology and Critical Studies (English)

Email: emilye01@mail.ubc.ca

Research interests are: History of literature, COVID-19, Interdisciplinary Research, Anthropology of Religion, Digital Anthropology, Relationships between Culture and History, English history

Emily Eaton is a fourth-year student majoring in anthropology and with a minor in English at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. While she originally came to UBCO for theatre, she became absorbed by the study of anthropology. In 2020, Emily became a recipient of the Undergraduate Research Award. Her research entitled, Reading in a pandemic: discovering the current and historic influence of literature combines English and anthropology into an interdisciplinary critical and contemporary analysis of literature through different historical periods in a western context. Through this research, Emily asks why literature discussed or produced during pandemic-like social restrictions becomes a touchstone in times of global health crises. This project is co-supervised by Dr. Fiona P. McDonald (Anthropology) and Dr. Sean Lawrence (English). Emily will be presenting her original research in the fall of 2021 virtually in Germany at a digital symposium, "Epidemics and Othering: The Biopolitics of COVID-19 in Historical and Cultural Perspectives.”

This research was funded by the Irving K. Barbar Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Undergraduate Research Award (2021).