English Language and Literature
HH building
Tel 519 888-4567 x46803
Fax 519 746-5788
Location: MC 2009
Supervisor: Michael MacDonald, Associate Professor
Department of English Language and Literature, University of Waterloo.
Committee members:
Ken Hirschkop, Associate Professor
Department of English Language and Literature, University of Waterloo.
Murray McArthur, Associate Professor
Department of English Language and Literature, University of Waterloo.
A presentation by Terry F. Robinson, Assistant Professor of English, University of Toronto.
Miriam Toews will be reading at the University of Waterloo
For the next meeting of the Waterloo Renaissance Workshop, Walter Lim will visit from the National University of Singapore to discuss his work in progress, “Dying Unshriven: Repentance and Confession in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.” After some introductory remarks by Professor Lim, this meeting will be an open discussion of the paper and the issues it raises. If you plan to attend, please request an electronic copy of the paper from Ken Graham at k2graham@uwaterloo.ca.
There will be a reception in honour of recipients of the Arts Awards in Teaching, Service, and Research. Among the recipients of the 2014 Arts Teaching Awards are UWaterloo English faculty member Michael MacDonald and English graduate student Adam Bradley.
This event has been cancelled.
2A English students are invited to come and meet one another as they learn more about the department, including information on courses, program plans, and events.
Presentations will be made by the English Students' Society and English Peer Mentors. And some of your favourite faculty will compete in a game of English Department Jeopardy!
Refreshments provided.
Prof. Jeremy Hunsinger of Wilfrid Laurier University presents an analysis of the discourses of knowledge production and critical technical practices generated from over fifty hacklab and hackerspace public websites.
The English Department, in its new space @ 44 Gaukel, is pleased to present a lecture and discussion with Prof. Jeremy Hunsinger (WLU), on Tuesday Nov. 4, 4 pm. This will be the first salon in the Critical Media Lab series.
All are welcome.
"Pragmatic politics of dis/engagement in Hacklabs and Hackerspace websites"
Prof. Jeremy Hunsinger, Wilfrid Laurier
Mennonite/s Writing is a reading series held at Conrad Grebel University College and hosted by Robert Zacharias, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the University of Waterloo's Department of English Language and Literature. See the poster below for authors and dates.

Postdoctoral Fellow Nick Balaisis explores the ways that media and digital technology affect how we think about cities.
The English Society is back & better than ever!
We're planning some really exciting events for this term, the first one being PIZZA next Thursday October 16th from 4:30 pm to 7 pm in HH 373!
All faculties are invited; English is a big part of all our lives! Come meet cool people, talk about books, movies, fan fiction, your cat, etc. and eat pizza... looking forward to seeing you there!
The Games Institute is hosting this event. Please consult their events page for details.
Writing Across Borders: Teaching International ELL Student Writers
The film Writing Across Borders is a short documentary based on a three-year study at Oregon State University. In this session, we'll watch the film, using it as a catalyst for further conversation about the questions around which it centers:
The first meeting of the Waterloo Renaissance Workshop will be held Thursday, October 9, from 4-5 p.m. in Hagey Hall 232. Toby Malone, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo’s Department of Drama and Speech Communication, will discuss his current course of research, which involves the digital, parallel-text codification of the prompt-book collections at the Stratford Festival Archives. Toby will speak to the history of the project and will outline the practical and dramaturgical opportunities that arise from considering theatrical archives as sites of generative work.

Location: HH 373
Location: PAS 2438
MetaFandom Unconference
Ametros: A Technogenetic Simulation Game for Professional Communication Coursework
Robert Clapperton
August 15, 2014 - 1:30 pm in HH 334
Sophisticated, complex, and numerous, rhetorical figures from antimetabole to zeugma have been rich resources for communication, literature and argumentation for over two millennia. The Department of English Language and Literature presents a workshop on the intersection of computers and rhetorical figures. Digital technologies can both chart the subtleties of rhetorical figures and, in turn, deploy them to chart out the textual universe. Genre detection, sentiment detection, authorship attribution, argument analysis—wherever there are words, there are figures. Wherever there are figures, there are patterns. Wherever there are patterns, there are purposes to detect, diagnose, and critique.
You can also catch the event via webcast.
For more information, contact Randy Harris or Marie-Agnes Pilon.
First Person Scholar is Hosting a Pseudo Game Jam!
It’s not located anywhere and you don’t have to program anything. FPS is looking for written descriptions of the processes and procedures that make up a game. They call them procedural poems. So, what makes it a jam? First of all there’s a prize. In addition to this prize, if we receive over 20 eligible submissions the winner will also receive a $100 Steam gift card. Second, there’s a time limit: one month.
The Department of English Language and Literature would like to extend sincere congratulations to the English Grads of 2014!
Please bring your family and friends to join us for light refreshments in HH 373, Wednesday, June 11, 2014, 12:00-2:00.