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List of graduating students.

We're proud to announce the names of UWaterloo English's class of 2020, including graduates from both the spring and fall convocations. These students persevered through the COVID pandemic and navigated many unexpected challenges, both educational and personal, to achieve their degrees. Congratulations and all the best for the future! 

Spring 2020

Graduate

Words in Place: Congratulations Dr. Evelyn Deshane!

Congratulations to UWaterloo English’s newest PhD, Dr. Evelyn Deshane. Evelyn successfully defended “Wish You Were Here: Transgender Road Narratives and The Place for Identity".

Congratulations to UWaterloo English’s newest PhD, Dr. Jason Lajoie. On November 20, Jason successfully defended “Technologies of Identity: A Queer Media Archaeology".

Congratulations to UWaterloo English’s newest PhD, Dr. Patricia Ofili. On May 6, Patricia successfully defended “Contextual Complexities and Nelson Mandela’s Braided Rhetoric".

Words in Place: Congratulations Dr. Morteza Dehghani!

Congratulations to UWaterloo English’s newest PhD, Dr. Morteza Dehghani. On April 3, Morteza successfully defended “In Works of Hands or of the Wits of Men”: The Elegies of Wim Wenders, Laurie Anderson and Alexander Sokurov.

Congratulations to Alexi Orchard on receiving her PhD. 

Congratulating the Class of 2024.

Congratulations to Dr. Lara El Mekkawi, who successfully defended her dissertation, "Hesitant Belonging: Understanding Generational Traumas of Forced Migration in Black and Palestinian Diaspora Contemporary Transnational Fiction."