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PAUL db WATKINS

PAUL db WATKINS

  • TEACHING
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      • Spring 2026
        • ENGL 394 (S26N01): Twin Peaks: Its Influence & Quality TV
        • ENGL 396: Adapting and Being Human in an Inhuman World
      • Fall 2025
        • ENGL 115 (F25N13): Navigating a Storied World
        • FILM 101: Introduction to Film Studies (Fall 25)
      • Fall 2024
        • FILM 101: Introduction to Film Studies
        • ENGL 390: GRAPHIC MEMOIR
      • Spring 2024
        • FILM 201: Film Studies
        • ENGL 392: Sound & Remix
      • Fall 2023
        • Film 101: Introduction to Film Studies
      • Spring 2023
        • FILM 220 (S23N01): “Pure Cinema,” Voyeurism, and Cinematic Influence
        • ENGL 330: Possible futures: Resistance & Reimagining in Speculative Fiction
      • 2018-2022
        • Spring 2022
          • ENGL 125 (S22W03) AT THE CROSSROADS: MUSIC, LITERATURE, & POPULAR CULTURE
          • ENGL 125 (S22N05) AT THE CROSSROADS: MUSIC, LITERATURE, & POPULAR CULTURE
          • ENGL 398 (S22N01): “Pure Cinema,” Voyeurism, and Cinematic Influence
          • ENGL 332: Topics in Indigenous Literatures (S22N01)
        • Fall 2021
          • ENGL 115 (F21N06): THE IMPORTANCE OF LANGUAGE AND STORIES IN OUR LIVES
          • ENGL 115 (F21N17): THE IMPORTANCE OF LANGUAGE AND STORIES IN OUR LIVES
        • Spring 2021
          • FILM 220 (S21N01): “Pure Cinema,” Voyeurism, and Cinematic Influence
          • ENGL 332: Topics in Indigenous Literatures (S21N01)
        • Fall 2020
          • ENGL 115 (F20D02): THE IMPORTANCE OF LANGUAGE AND STORIES IN OUR LIVES
          • ENGL 115 (F20N29): THE IMPORTANCE OF LANGUAGE AND STORIES IN OUR LIVES
          • ENGL 125 AT THE CROSSROADS: MUSIC, LITERATURE, & POPULAR CULTURE
        • Spring 2020
          • ENGL 115 (S20D01): The Importance of Language and Stories in Our Lives
          • ENGL 280 (S20N01): Literature on Trial: Banned or Challenged Books
        • Fall 2019
          • Film 101: Introduction to Film Studies
          • ENGL 394 (F19N01): Twin Peaks: Its Influence & Quality TV
        • Spring 2019
          • ENGL 115 (S19D01): The Importance of Language and Stories in Our Lives
          • ENGL 220 (S19N01): CanLit Now!
          • ENGL 398 (S19N01): Film Studies: Voyeurism, Representation, and Cinematic Influence
        • Fall 2018
          • Film 101: Introduction to Film Studies
          • ENGL 231: Possible futures: Resistance & Reimagining in Speculative Fiction
        • Spring 2018
          • ENGL 115 (S18D01): Language and Stories
          • ENGL 135 (S18N02): Literature and Criticism: Graphic Novels
          • ENGL 396: Literature and Film
      • 2013-2017
        • Spring 2017
          • ENGL 332: Topics in Indigenous Literatures
          • ENGL 115 (S17D50): After Eden
        • Fall 2017
          • ENGL 115 (F17N13): Language and Stories
          • ENGL 125 (F17N05): (Un)Settling BC: Robinson, Compton, and Kogawa
          • ENGL 390 (TOPICS IN WORD & IMAGE): GRAPHIC MEMOIR
        • Fall 2016
          • ENGL 115 (F16N02): AFTER EDEN
          • ENGL 125 (F16N04): Other Canadas / Canada’s Others: King, Edugyan, and Kogawa
          • ENGL 125 (F16N08): Other Canadas / Canada’s Others: King, Edugyan, and Kogawa
        • Summer 2016
          • ENGL 125 (F16N04): Other Canadas / Canada’s Others: King, Edugyan, and Kogawa
        • Spring 2016
          • ENGL 115 (S16D50): After Eden
          • ENGL 390 (Topics in Word & Image): Transformations
        • Fall 2015
          • ENGL 115 (F15N17/ N20): THE MYTH OF PROGRESS
          • ENGL 115 (F15N31): THE MYTH OF PROGRESS
          • ENGL 135 (F15N01): Jazz and Social Change
        • Summer 2015
          • ENGL 115 (M15N73): THE MYTH OF PROGRESS
          • ENGL 125 (J15N70): Voice in Text: “Interfusional” Writing, Myth, and Culture
          • ENGL 125 (J15N71): Voice in Text: “Interfusional” Writing, Myth, and Culture
        • Spring 2015
          • ENGL 115 (S15D50): STORIES, IDENTITY, AND PROGRESS
          • ENGL 115 (S15D01): STORIES, IDENTITY, AND PROGRESS
          • ENGL 125 (S15D02): Voice in Text: “Interfusional” Writing, Myth, and Culture
        • Fall 2014
          • ENGL 115 (F14N08): WRITING AND REMIXING A LIFE
          • ENGL 115 (F14N09): THE MIX: HIP-HOP PEDAGOGY, TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS, AND UNIVERSITY WRITING
          • ENGL 135 (F14N02): SONIC AFRO-MODERNITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE
        • ENGL 2130: Literature and Social Change
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Spring 2026

FILM 201: Film Genres

ENGL 394: Twin Peaks

ENGL 396: Literature and Adaptation

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Hard to believe tomorrow is back to school and back to work. We’ve been trying to squeeze in some last-minute family activities, and one of those was finally playing Canadian DJ Kid Koala’s board game from his latest album, ℂ𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕖𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕃𝕒𝕥𝕖 𝔸𝕗𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕟𝕠𝕠𝕟 (slide 2). The gatefold doubles as a board game and includes inserts with game pieces, dice, and 150 game cards—creature character cards, music genre cards, recording equipment cards, and studio time cards—all featuring new artwork by Kid Koala. 🤯 Starting the year off with that H.O.O.D. energy. I ordered this #7inchvinyl during the #Kneecap livestream event last October. Another year of sharing lots of records and music. We lost David Lynch in January, but his art lives on. It was also a year when I published my first book, and when we took an incredible trip to Japan. Despite a world in chaos, it was a good year for me. Thanks to everyone who stopped by my page—here’s my top 9 (excluding videos) for 2025. ‘Tis the Season. Do you have a favourite Christmas album? Like a narrativized version of Style Wars, and while not quite as good, 𝕎𝕚𝕝𝕕 𝕊𝕥𝕪𝕝𝕖 is still quintessential hip hop. Made in 1982, it takes you into the early days of hip hop, when bombing and graffiti, breaking, and DJing carried a similar gravitas to rapping. Each element was essential to the culture. Portishead’s third album, aptly titled 𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕣𝕕 (2008), moves in new directions from the trip-hop sound of their first two genre-defining albums. It incorporates elements of electronica, experimental and psychedelic rock, and has a sonic propulsion that recalls classic sci-fi soundtracks like Blade Runner. It’s certainly darker in tone than their first two albums, but no less rewarding. There are a number of highlights, but “The Rip” is a song I never tire of hearing. Brilliant stuff. Do you know this one? The new Rosalía album (𝕃𝕌𝕏) is something special: innovative and daring in its mix of contemporary classical and orchestral pop, featuring four movements and 13 languages. Definitely one of the best albums of the year. It’s a 33rpm birthday (even though I’m a decade older than that many spins). In that spirit, here are 33 to celebrate 43. One year ago, the world lost a real one, a true poet and trailblazer of the human spirit: Nikki Giovanni (June 7, 1943 – December 9, 2024). While critic Harold Bloom often lamented the rise of multiculturalism in contemporary literature and disparaged slam poetry, by contrast Giovanni embraced cultural change as part of a continuum, even getting a “Thug Life” tattoo on her arm. Earlier this year, while in Japan at a fantastic record shop called Record Jungle, I picked up two of her early albums: 𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕥𝕙 𝕀𝕤 𝕠𝕟 𝕀𝕥𝕤 𝕎𝕒𝕪 (1971) and 𝕃𝕚𝕜𝕖 𝕒 ℝ𝕚𝕡𝕡𝕝𝕖 𝕠𝕟 𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕟𝕕 (1973). Both meld poetry with blues, gospel, and the power of the collective. May we all harness even a fraction of her indomitable spirit—to speak truth to power, to resist, and to find joy in our shared humanity.

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