Areas of expertise

• Early Modern literature and culture
• Visual culture
• Visual rhetoric

• War in literature and life-writing
• Autobiography
• Modern British writers, especially non-canonical women writers

Lamees Al Ethari
Email: lalethari@uwaterloo.ca

• Life Writing/Women’s Life Writing
• Arab and Arab North American literature, history, and culture
• Diaspora and Postcolonial Theory
• War and Trauma Theory and Literature
• Transnational and Immigrant Literature
• Ethnic American Literature

• Canadian literature
• Caribbean literature
• Diaspora studies
• Contemporary poetry and poetics
• Visual arts in literature

Aparajita Bhandari
Email: aparajita.bhandari@uwaterloo.ca

• Critical Algorithm/critical data studies
• Feminist media studies
• Social media studies
• Cultural theory
• Community engaged and participatory research
• Media and materiality 

• Writing Theory and Pedagogy
• Material Rhetorics/Rhetorical New Materialism
• Environmental Rhetorics
• Methods and Methodology
• Rhetorics of Location and Place

• Cross-cultural and antiracist rhetorics
• Critical race theory and rhetoric
• Public rhetorics and social change
• Writing theory, practice, and pedagogy

• British Romantic literature and culture (especially poetry)
• William Blake
• Erasmus Darwin
• Gender and sexuality
• Medical writing and illustration
• Literature and science
• Religion and literature

Bruce Dadey
Email: badadey@uwaterloo.ca

• Rhetorical theory and history
• Professional Communication
• Composition theory
• American literature
• Non-fiction prose studies (particularly American writers)
• Graphic narratives

Andrew Deman
Email: jademan@uwaterloo.ca

• Graphic Narrative
• Fan Culture
• Comics
• Science Fiction
• Chris Claremont

• Representations of Rurality and Class
• Postwar US Literature and Film
• Studies in Media and Popular Culture
• Interdisciplinary Methodologies
• Feminist Pedagogy

• User Experience Design
• Content Strategy
• Urban Economic Development
• Cultural Scenes and Creative Cities
• Cultural Mapping

Chrysanne DiMarco
Email: cdimarco@uwaterloo.ca

• Computational rhetoric
• Computational linguistics
• Human language technologies
• Health informaticas
• Persuasive language technologies

• Rhetorical theory and history
• Composition theory and pedagogy
• Disability studies

• Eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature
• Defoe, Smart, Edgeworth, and Austen
• Gender, sexuality, and class
• Political economy
• Popular culture

• Digital media, history, and representation
• Storytelling across media forms
• Technological cultures and infrastructures (especially materiality, sustainability, and gendered labour)
• Critical and creative digital humanities (including electronic literature)
• Post-1945 and contemporary American and British literature

• Discourse analysis
• Language and gender
• Language in advertising 

• Language and the law/forensic linguistics

• Creole Linguistics & Caribbean language

• Renaissance and Reformation Literature, including Shakespeare and Milton
• Poetry
• Literature and rhetoric

• Canadian Drama and Theatre
• Fin-de-Siecle Literature and Drama (British and Canadian)
• Historiography and Politics of Literary and Theatrical Production
• Composition Pedagogy
• Online Pedagogy and Learning

• Nineteenth-century American Literature
• African American Literature
• Cultural studies

Randy Harris
Email: raha@uwaterloo.ca

• Rhetoric (especially computational and cognitive rhetoric, rhetoric of science, history and theory of rhetoric)
• Professional communication (especially document design, usability, and multimedia)
• Interaction design (especially speech)
• Linguistics (especially cognitive linguistics and history of linguistics)
• Cognitive Poetics (especially the affective dimensions of linguistic and textual form in literature)
• Construction Grammar (especially the intersection of everyday expressions and rhetorical schemes)

• Cultural and literary theory (especially Bakhtin, the Frankfurt School, Marxist theory, Raymond Williams)
• Politics and language
• Modern philosophy of language
• Critical media studies
• Urban culture

• Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Canadian writing.

• Critical discourse analysis
• Critical race theory
• Race and new media

• Chaucer
• Medieval English literature
• Medieval humanism

• Shakespeare
• Early modern drama and poetry
• History of English

Alice Kuzniar
Email: akuzniar@uwaterloo.ca

RETIRED

• Cinema studies
• Queer studies
• Animal studies
• History of medicine
• Psychoanalytic approaches to literature and film

• Translation theory
• Structure of the English language
• Rhetoric
• Communications in Engineering and the sciences

• American literature
• Popular culture
• American women’s writing

• Victorian literature and culture, especially fiction from the 1840s and 1850s.

• Twentieth-century literature
• American and transatlantic modernism
• Interdisciplinary approaches to literary study
• Literature, science, and technology
• Literature and medicine/medical humanities

• History and Theory of Rhetoric
• Media Studies

• American literature and culture after WWII (especially poetry)
• Post-romantic poetics
• Twentieth-century literatures and film

• Ecocriticism
• Environmental rhetoric and/or literature
• Genres of professional writing
• New media theory and design
• Nineteenth-century American literature
• Semiotics and discourse analysis

• Science fiction

• Comics and graphic novels

• Rhetoric (history and theory of rhetoric, rhetoric of science and technology, digital rhetoric, rhetorical genre studies)
• Communication studies (science communication, environmental communication, organizational communication, media theory)
• Professional and technical communication, especially scientific proposal writing and notions of expertise in socio-technical spheres of discourse, and also emerging online genres
• Qualitative methods

• Rhetoric
• Cognition and learning theory
• Instructional technology and communication design
• Technical, engineering, and science communication
• User experience, human-computer interaction, usability
• Game studies and learning design

Email: ahm@uwaterloo.ca

• Information technology in literature
• Electronic textualities
• Digital media
• History and theory of media
• Popular cybercultures

Email: carter.neal@uwaterloo.ca

• American Literature
• Emerson Studies
• Fuller Studies
• Transcendentalism

Vinh Nguyen​
Email: vinh.nguyen@uwaterloo.ca

• Asian Diaspora Literatures
• War, Refugee, and Migration studies
• Affect theory
• Cultural Studies

• Victorian literature
• Bibliography
• Children's literature
• Literature and the Bible
• C.S. Lewis and his circle

• Critical theory
• Media theory
• Digital humanities
• Digital art and design
• Posthumanities
• Cyberculture
• Techno-Romanticism
• New critical methodologies

Email: nrandall@uwaterloo.ca

• Game studies
• Virtual worlds
• Rhetoric and semiotics of Human-Computer Interaction
• Semiotics of games and game design
• J. R. R. Tolkien
• Practice and analysis of various genres of professional writing: technical documentation, magazine journalism, multimedia production

John Savarese​
email: john.savarese@uwaterloo.ca

• Romantic literature
• Poetry and poetics
• History and philosophy of science

• Renaissance & Reformation drama and literature – especially Shakespeare
• Performance Studies
• Narrative theory
• Canadian drama
• Professional writing and communication – especially document design, usability, and multimedia production
• Victorian literature
• Gothic studies

• Canadian literature and culture, North American literatures and cultures
• Black North American writing (including francophone Quebec)
• Race and ethnicity
• Postcolonial writing
• Diaspora writing
• Hemispheric studies
• Literary and critical theory (including Frankfurt School)
• Jazz and literature

• Postcolonial literatures and theory
• Caribbean literature
• Feminist theory
• Canadian literature
• Postcolonial queer studies

Imre Szeman
Email: iszeman@uwaterloo.ca

• Environmental communication
• Energy justice
• Literary and critical theory
• Cultural studies

• Middle English literature and historiography
• Middle Scots literature and historiography
• Premodern theory of mind and embodiment
• Creative writing
• Cognitive poetics

Paul Ugor
Email: pugor@uwaterloo.ca

• Modern African Literature
• African Cinema/Nollywood 
• Black Popular Culture
• Cultural Theory 
• African Youth Studies
• Postcolonial Anglophone World Literatures

• Canadian literary studies in all genres (especially post-WWII to the present);
• Auto/biography studies generally;
• First Nations and Métis literatures.

Brianna I. Wiens
Email: biwiens@uwaterloo.ca

• Feminist media studies  
• Feminist and queer affect studies
• Feminist new materialisms and posthumanisms
• Digital activisms and networked social movements
• Social media cultures
• Rhetorics of design
• Design equity, data feminism, and data justice
• Critical approaches to technology

• Poetry and/or poetics

• Twentieth century American literature
• Ecocriticism and place studies
• Religion and American culture
• Native American literature
• Literature and the American West

Vershawn Young
Email: vershawn.young@uwaterloo.ca

• African American Performance (drama and theatre, performance of everyday life, performance of gender [masculinity])
• African Americans Studies (esp. African Americans and U.S. Law after Jim Crow)
• Composition and Rhetoric (Translingual Writing, Code Meshing, Code Switching, Relationship between speech/oral communication and writing/composition)
• African American literature (Dramatic Literature of the Harlem Renaissance, Late 20^th/21^st Century Authors, James Baldwin)