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
Associate Professor

• youth culture
• children’s literature and participatory culture
• narrative ethics
• the Canadian bildungsroman
• Atlantic Canadian YA literature

Jing Jing Chang
Associate Professor

• modern China
• Chinese cinemas (Hong Kong)
• postcolonial studies
• Cold War
• gender and sexuality in film

Maria DiCenzo
Professor

• feminist media history
• interwar feminist movement
• 20th-century British theatre

Tamas Dobozy
Professor
Chair, Department of English and Film Studies

• literature and terrorism
• music and utopia
• post-structuralism
• short story

Philippa Gates
Professor

• classical and contemporary Hollywood film
• gender in film
• film history
• crime fiction and film
• Asian Americans in American film
• creative writing

Madelaine Hron
Associate Professor

• human rights
• African postcolonial literature
• immigration
• trauma and healing

Jenny Kerber
Associate Professor

• Canadian literature
• environmental literature and criticism
• border studies
• Indigenous literature

Russell Kilbourn
Professor

• memory studies
• film theory
• posthumanism
• Italian cinema
• adaptation

Tanis MacDonald
Professor

• Canadian literature
• women's writing
• dystopic literature
• creative non-fiction and memoir

Richard Nemesvari
Professor

• Victorian fiction
• bibliography and textual criticism
• Thomas Hardy
• sensation fiction and melodrama
• genre theory

Mariam Pirbhai
Professor   

• postcolonial and diaspora studies
• Caribbean and South Asian literatures
• Canadian writing, multiculturalism and ethnicity
• creative writing

Markus Poetzsch
Associate Professor
Undergraduate Advisor, English

• British Romantic literature
• aesthetics
• pedestrianism
• ecocriticism

Lynn Shakinovsky
Associate Professor

• Victorian literature and culture
• 19th- and 20th-century American literature
• psychoanalysis
• religion and ethics

Katherine Spring
Associate Professor
Undergraduate Advisor, Film Studies

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

Eleanor Ty
Professor
Graduate Program Coordinator

• Asian American and Asian Canadian literature
• graphic novel
• life writing
• 18th-century British fiction
• feminist and gender issues

Robin Waugh
Professor

• Old and Middle English
• Medieval studies
• literary theory

Graduate Faculty at the Brantford Campus

Kathryn Carter
Professor
Dean: Faculty of Liberal Arts (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