Graduate Faculty at the Waterloo Campus

Sandra Annett
Associate Professor

• Digital and new media
• Japanese popular culture
• World animation
• Fan studies

Andrea Austin
Associate Professor

• Cybercultures
• Narrative theory
• Gender theory

Katherine Bell
Assistant Professor

• Youth culture
• Children’s literature and participatory culture
• Narrative ethics
• The Canadian bildungsroman
• Atlantic Canadian YA literature

Jing Jing Chang
Assistant Professor

• East Asian cinema
• Postcolonial studies
• Cold War culture

Maria DiCenzo
Professor

• Feminist media history
• Interwar feminist movement
• 20th-century British theatre

Tamas Dobozy
Professor
Acting Dean: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

• Music and utopia
• Post-structuralism
• Short story
• Creative writing

Philippa Gates
Professor
Program Coordinator/Advisor, Film Studies

• Classical and New Hollywood film
• Gender and genre
• Film history

Madelaine Hron
Associate Professor

• Human rights
• African postcolonial literature
• Immigration
• Trauma and healing

Jenny Kerber
Assistant Professor

• Canadian literature
• Environmental literature and criticism
• Border studies
• Indigenous literature

Russell Kilbourn
Associate Professor

• Memory studies
• Art film
• Adaptation
• W.G. Sebald
• European cinema

Ute Lischke
Professor

• Autobiography/life writing
• European film
• Indigenous writing and filmmaking in North America

Tanis MacDonald
Associate Professor

• Canadian poetry
• Feminist theory
• Canadian history and culture

Mariam Pirbhai
Associate Professor   

• Postcolonial literature and theory
• Postcolonial women’s writing
• Caribbean literature
• South Asian literature
• Diaspora
• Multicultural and minority writing

Markus Poetzsch
Associate Professor
Undergraduate Advisor, English

• British Romantic literature
• Aesthetics
• Pedestrianism
• Ecocriticism

Anne Russell
Associate Professor

• Early modern drama and poetry
• Early modern women writers
• Aphra Behn

Lynn Shakinovsky
Associate Professor
Graduate Program Director

• Victorian literature and culture
• 19th- and 20th-century American literature
• Psychoanalysis
• Religion and ethics

Ada Sharpe
Assistant Professor

• 18th- and 19th-century British literature and culture
• Academic writing
• Professional writing and communication
• Gender studies

Katherine Spring
Associate Professor

• Film sound and music
• American film history
• Theories of narrative and narration
• Hong Kong cinema

Eleanor Ty
Professor

• Asian North American literature and film
• 18th-century fiction
• Diaspora, ethnicity and gender

Robin Waugh
Professor
Chair, Department of English and Film Studies

• Old and Middle English
• Medieval studies
• Literary theory

Graduate Faculty at the Brantford Campus

Kathryn Carter
Associate Professor
Associate Vice-President: Teaching and Learning (Acting)

• 19th-century Canadian literature
• Women’s diaries
• Life writing

Ian MacRae
Associate Professor

• Canadian poetry
• Biophilia and pedagogy
• Forms of representation in/of the Canadian Arctic

Kenneth Paradis
Associate Professor
Program Coordinator, English

• Modern and contemporary American literature
• Popular culture
• Evangelical and apocalyptic fiction

Lisa Wood
Associate Professor

• Fiction of the Romantic period
• Children’s literature, video games and pop culture
• Women’s literature