Janice L. Stewart

Dr. Janice L. Stewart is the Deputy Provost in the Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic, UBC Vancouver.

The role of Deputy Provost focuses on providing strategic leadership and oversight for academic affairs, faculty recruitment and retention, and ongoing faculty relations matters. The Deputy Provost also supports the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, UBC Vancouver, in the realization of the university’s strategic academic aspirations.

Prior to joining the Provost's office in May, 2024, Dr. Stewart was the Associate Dean, Faculty, in the Faculty of Arts, and a professor of teaching at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice. Their interests include critical theory, gender theory, anti-racist work, and Modernist writers such as Virginia Woolf and Emily Carr. In addition to having taught across several graduate and undergraduate programs, Professor Stewart designed and authored a MOOC titled: “Gender and Sexuality: Applications in Society,” and they played a lead role in the Institute’s curriculum mapping and curriculum renewal initiatives. Dr. Stewart served as Dean pro tem for the Faculty of Arts from July 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022. They have served as a member of the University’s faculty collective bargaining team, and as academic sponsor for the Workday Student project. Dr. Stewart received the Killam Teaching Prize in 2009/10.