Jason Lieblang did his PhD in Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto. His interests include curriculum design; emerging technologies in foreign language learning; translation; teaching with and about comics; gender and sexuality in the theatre; the culture of the Weimar Republic; contemporary Marxism; and horror cinema.

Dr. Lieblang has coordinated the CENES Department’s first- and second-year German language levels; has twice facilitated Departmental study abroad programs in Berlin (2012 & 2014); spent two years as faculty in UBC’s Arts One Program (2015-2016); and between 2019 and 2022 collaborated with UBC’s Emerging Media Lab on the development of Chatsim, a virtual reality language learning application.

Dr. Lieblang recently completed (with Gaby Pailer, CENES) a new translation of Christa Winsloe’s “Gestern und Heute” (1930); and  is working with Pailer and Annette Bühler-Dietrich (University of Stuttgart) on the project “Women’s Drama and Theatre in German-Speaking Europe, 1620-2020” (supported by a SSHRC Insight Grant).

Dr. Lieblang served as the Director of First-Year & Interdisciplinary Programs in the Faculty of Arts (2021-2025), and is currently Undergraduate Director for MEST, NORD, and SEES in CENES. Please contact him with questions about any of those programs.

Review of Martin Brady and Joanne Leal, Wim Wenders and Peter Handke, Collaboration, Adaptation, Recomposition. Focus on German Studies 17, 2012.

(With Jakub Kazecki) “Regression versus Progression: Fundamental Differences in German and American Posers of the First World War.” In Picture This: World War 1 Posters and Visual Culture. Ed. Pearl James. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. 111-145.