UPEI’s Arts professors are experts in a wide variety of fields: from international climate agreements to relational ethics and social transformation; from message framing strategies to social network analysis and animal rights activism; from cultural ideas about the devil to Confucian thinkers; from adaptations into French-Canadian film to the Hispanic Enlightenment; from carbon pricing to geospatial imaging of land use change; from Atlantic Canada’s COVID bubble to university teaching; from youth mental health, to advanced techniques for trombone; from the use of religious symbols by the Alt Right to the works of LM Montgomery. And so much more. Rigorous in approach, diverse in methodologies, Arts scholars help us to understand social, cultural, economic, and political complexities and provide evidence-based ways to think about the world we have inherited, the world we live in now, and the world we imagine for the future.

Our scholars work in research libraries in Toronto, London, Paris, and New York; do fieldwork in small villages in Labrador or the South Pacific or new cities like Hyderabad, and interview and collaborate with Islanders in their communities. Our scholarly work includes collections of poetry, original theatrical productions, and musical performances and recordings, along with books, ethnographic films, research essays, policy briefs, environmental scans and more.

The Faculty of Arts is home to a UNESCO Chair in Island Studies and Sustainability, a Canada Research Chair in Geospatial Humanities, and a Chair in LM Montgomery Studies. We host the Institute of Island Studies, the GeoReach Lab, the LM Montgomery Institute, and the Centre for Korean Studies.