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