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
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

• 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
Associate 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

• 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