Below are lists of UWaterloo English presenters at past meetings of the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences.
2019
| Name | Title | Society/Group | Date/Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Becky Anderson | Exploring Canadian Corrections: A Security Governance Approach to Simulating Risk | CGSA | June 7, 1:30pm | TBA |
| Veronica Austen | Perceiving Beauty: George Elliott Clarke’s Photoverses | ACQL | June 1, 8:30 a.m. | BUCH D214 |
| Betsy Brey | "FNaF Can't Be Solved!": Para-Narrative Structure in Five Nights at Freddy's | CGSA | June 5, 1:30 p.m. | TBA |
| Bruce Dadey | Rhetoric without End: Occupy and the Strategy of Silence | RhetCanada | June 5, 10:00 a.m. | Math 104 |
| Lai-Tze Fan | Interdisciplinary Roundtable (Chair) | CSDH-SCHN & ACCUTE | June 2, 1:30 p.m. | UCLL 103 |
| Christopher Giannakopoulos | The (In)accessible Archive: Freud, Paterson, and the Mnemic Signifier | ACCUTE | June 3, 8:30 a.m. | BUCH B309 |
| Kyle Gerber |
Chiastic Mirrors: Reverse-repetition Figures in Martyrs Mirror A Figure Is a Figure Is a Figure: The Cognitive-computational Approach to Rhetorical Figures (co-presenter) | RhetCanada | June 5, 10:30 a.m. | Math 105 |
| Danielle Griffin | A Figure Is a Figure Is a Figure: The Cognitive-computational Approach to Rhetorical Figures (co-presenter) | RhetCanada | June 5, 10:30 a.m | Math 105 |
| Randy Harris | A Figure Is a Figure Is a Figure: The Cognitive-computational Approach to Rhetorical Figures (co-author) | RhetCanada | June 5, 10:30 a.m | Math 105 |
| Ashley Irwin | Remembering the Future: Afrofuturism as Testimony (Co-Author: Sara Gallagher) | BCSA | June 3, 10:30 p.m. | BUTO 321 |
| Ashley Irwin | Title: Can I Get a Witness?: The Temporal Dimensions of Testimony in The Book of Negroes | CACLALS | June 2, 1:30 p.m. | BUCH B302 |
| Melissa Johnson | (En)Gendering Rhetorics of Illness: Linking Historical Perceptions of Hysteria to Contemporary Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome | CDSA-ACÉH | June 2nd, 2:30 p.m. | Room 291 |
| Monique Kampherm | Social Media’s Suasion on Political Rhetoric: A Case Study of the 2015 Maclean’s Leaders’ Debate #macdebate | RhetCanada | June 6, 1:30 p.m. | Math 102 |
| Asma Khaliq | Mythic Design of The Waste Land |
ACCUTE | June 4, 8:30 a.m. | BUCH B208 |
| Jason Lajoie | Interdisciplinary Roundtable | CSDH-SCHN & ACCUTE | June 2, 1:30 p.m | UCLL 103 |
| Kayley Marner | "Most Painted Word": A Quantitative Linguistic Analysis of Shakespeare's Manipulators | CSRS | June 1, 3:00 p.m. | BUCH D222 |
| Devon Moriarty | A New Reddit: Reviving Hope through Rhetorical Citizenship | RhetCanada | June 6, 1:30 p.m. | Math 102 |
| Devon Moriarty | Teaching Expertise: How the Acquisition of Expertise Influences Pedagogical Praxis | CASDW | June 2, 1:30 p.m. | ORCH 4058 |
| Aimée Morrison | Interdisciplinary Roundtable | CSDH-SCHN & ACCUTE | June 2, 1:30 p.m. | UCLL 103 |
| Marcel O'Gorman | Tech For Good? When Media Theory Intervenes In The Tech Sector | CCA | June 3, 10:45 a.m. | IBLC 158 |
| Robyn Peers | Serializing Blackness: The Creation of Ethical Witnesses in The Book of Emma and Angélique | ACCUTE | June 1, 1:30 p.m. | BUCH B218 |
| Jennifer Rickert | Cheating & Modding Video Games: A place of social liminality | CGSA | June 7, 1:30 p.m. | Room 1 |
| Saeed Sabzian | The Road to Seeing: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Visual Rhetoric | RhetCanada | June 6, 10:30 a.m. | Math 105 |
| Winfried Siemerling | Call and Response-ability: Black Canadian Art and the Question of Audience | Appel et capacité de réponse: les créations artistiques noires au Canada et la question du public (panel co-organizer and co-chair) | ACQL |
June
1 8:30 a.m. | BUCH D214 |
| Winfried Siemerling | Call and Response-ability: Black Art and the Politics of Relation (panel co-organizer and co-chair) | ACCUTE | June 1, 10:30 a.m. | BUCH B211 |
| Maša Torbica | The Flesh Speaks by Bleeding: Pain and Protest in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians | CACLALS | June 1, 8:30 a.m. | BUCH B306 |
| Maša Torbica | Persuasion in Motion: the Rhetorical Role of Youth-led Long Marches within the Idle No More Movement | RhetCanada | June 5, 10:30 a.m. | Math 104 |
| Katherine Tu |
Rhetorical Figures as Cognitive: A Case Study of Isocolon A Figure Is a Figure Is a Figure: The Cognitive-computational Approach to Rhetorical Figures (co-presenter) | RhetCanada | June 5, 10:30 a.m. | Math 104 |
| Valerie Uher | “And if you can’t memory right,” he said, “you lose”: Channeling Reader Consciousness in David Chariandy’s Brother | ACQL-ALQC | June 1, 8:30 a.m. | BUCH D214 |
| Sarah Whyte | The Rhetorical Functions of Narrative in Accounts of Surgical Checklists across Popular, Professional, and Epistemic Genres | CASDW | June 2, 8:30 a.m. | ORCH 4052 |
2018
| Name | Title | Society/Group | Date/Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Becky Anderson | Figuring Affective Phenomena: The Architectures of Machine Emotion | CSDH | May 26, 11:00 a.m. | CL 313 |
| Becky Anderson |
The Border Between Memory & History: Exploring Place in Antonine Maillet’s La Sagouine, Gérald Leblanc’s Moncton Mantra, and France Daigle’s Just Fine | ACQL | May 27, 8:30 p.m. | LI 143 |
| Becky Anderson |
Mapping the Reputation of Tolkien's Middle-earth in Standing Stone's Lord of the Rings Online | CGSA | June 1, 8:30 a.m. | TBA |
|
Veronica Austen | Abject Eating in Kim Fu's For Today I Am a Boy | ACCUTE | May 26, 1:30 p.m. | LI 119 |
| Veronica Austen | High Muck a Muck: Playing Chinese: Connective Aesthetics and Memorialization | CACLALS | May 27, 11:00 a.m. | LI 133 |
| Bruce Dadey | Beyond Shovelware: The Developing Rhetoric of Multimodal Digital Journalism | RhetCanada | May 28, 1:30 p.m. | CL 410 |
| Sara Gallagher | Mediating Race in Black and White: Oscar Micheaux and the Early Race Film | ACCUTE | May 27, 8:30 a.m. | LC 207 |
| Kyle Gerber | Figures in the Mirror | RhetCanada | May 27, 1:30 p.m. | CL 410 |
| Ashley Irwin | Inside the Outside: Race, Space, and Protest in Wayde Compton's The Outer Harbour | CACLALS | May 27, 1:30 p.m. | LI 133 |
| Ashley Irwin | Rampage in Toronto: The Yonge Street Uprising and the Myth of Black Criminality | BCSA | May 29, 2:00 p.m. | ED 548 |
| Monique Kampherm |
Democratic prosopopoeia: The rhetorical influence of embodying a political statement online | RhetCanada | May 28, 1:30 p.m. | CL 410 |
| Jin Sol Kim |
Trans Counterpublics On Tumblr: How Tumblr Affords a Digital Safe Space for Transsexual Youth | CCA | June 1, 2:30 p.m. | LC 208 |
| Norm Klassen | The Inner Word from Dante to David Adams Richards: Why Christians Who are Neither Fundamentalists nor Mathematicians Believe in a Connection between Word and Thing (Plenary) | CLSG/ACCUTE | May 27, noon | TBA |
| Lindsay Meaning | Adaptations of Empire: The Colony in Kim, Novel and Game | CGSA | June 1, 8:30 a.m. | TBA |
| Philip Miletic | Cibele and the Genre of Automedia Games | CGSA | May 31, 3:30 p.m. | TBA |
| Devon Moriarty | The March for Science: Reddit’s Role in a Movement of Rhetorical Resistance | RhetCanada | May 29, 9:30 a.m. | CL 410 |
| Devon Moriarty |
Assessing the Epistemic Reliability of Science Experts on the Internet: A Case Study in Reddit’s r/Science | CSHPS | May 27, 8:45 a.m. | FN 3304 |
| Patricia Ofili |
Resisting the Rhetoric of Utopia and Dystopia | RhetCanada | May 29, 10:50 a.m. | CL 410 |
| Saeed Sabzian | Aural Rhetoric: How It Works | RhetCanada | May 27, 9:30 a.m. | CL 410 |
| Sylvia Terzian | Transnational Feminist Misfits? The Possibility of Arab Transnational Feminist Engagements | WGSRF | May 30, 3:15 p.m. | LB 132 |
| Maša Torbica |
Poetry reading at "And Now for a Creative Perspective”: A Graduate Student Roundtable | CACLALS/ACCUTE/ACQL | May 26, 6:30 p.m. | Campion Commons |
| Paula Catalina Sanchez-Nunez de Villavicencio | The Rhetoric of Quantified Social Media Rankings | RhetCanada | May 29, 9:30 a.m. | CL 410 |
2017
| Name | Title | Society/Group | Date/Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Becky Anderson | Sound and Space: Connecting to Memory and Remembering Trauma in Madeline Thien’s Certainty | ACCUTE | May 27, 1:45 p.m. | Victoria 508 |
| Becky Anderson | Photographing Loss: Exploring the Ocular Record in Madeline Thien’s Certainty | ACQL | May 27, 8:30 a.m. | Victoria 503 |
|
Veronica Austen | The Ghost of Roy Kiyooka | ACQL |
May 27, 1:30 p.m. | Victoria 503 |
|
Veronica
Austen | The Presence of Absence: Visual Hauntings in Canadian Literature / La présence de l’absence: les hantises visuellesdans la littérature canadienne (panel org.) | ACQL | May 27, 8:30 a.m. | Victoria 503 |
| Betsy Brey | Fact and/or Fiction?: VR Storytelling and Cognitive Narratology | CGSA | June 1, 10:45 a.m. |
TRSM 2-147 |
| Bruce Dadey | From Usability to UX: Visual Rhetoric, Comics, and Technical Communication | CSSR | June 1, 1:30 p.m. | OAK 218 |
| Andrew Deman | Wee Little Lotus-Eaters: The Fallacy of Academic Expiration | ACCUTE | May 30, 10:30 a.m. | SLC 450 |
| Evelyn Deshane | Blonde Beauties and GIs: Transgender Surgery's Military Root | ACCUTE | May 29, 10:30 a.m. | Victoria 301 |
| Evelyn Deshane | ESC Roundtable: Transitions (panelist) | ACCUTE | May 27, 1:45 p.m. | Victoria 101 |
| Danielle Deveau | Counting Culture: A Roundtable on Methods in Media and Cultural Studies | CCA | May 30, 8:30 a.m. | RCC 227 |
| Fraser Easton | Austen's War on Edgeworth: Economic Psychology in Emma and Ennui | ACCUTE | May 30, 8:45 a.m. | Victoria 500 |
| Judy Ehrentraut | This is Not Your Body: The Synchronization of Affect in Virtual Reality Gaming | CGSA | June 1, 10:45 a.m. |
TRSM 2-147 |
| Stephen Fernandez | Rendering Digital Lives: Approaching Social Media Through "Critical Making" | CCA | May 31, noon | KHS 51 |
| Stephen Fernandez | Mobilizing Access in Makerspaces: Crip Performances and Collaborative Making in the Classroom | CDSA | May 31, 1:00 p.m. | TBA |
| Julie Funk | Pace-taker: Getting To The Heart Of Our Digital Anxieties | CCA | May 31, 1:45 p.m. | RCC 202 |
| Sara Gallagher | "Down Here in Paradise": Fictional Accounts of the Exoduster Movement | ACCUTE | May 27, 10:30 a.m. | TBA |
| Kyle Gerber | "On Earth as it is in Heaven": Transitive Action and Sacramental Participation in The Lord's Prayer | CATA | May 28, 3:00 p.m. | Victoria 206 |
| Kyle Gerber | “On Earth as it is in Heaven”: Transitive Action in The Lord’s Prayer | CSSR | June 1, 8:45 a.m. |
OAK 218 |
| Kyle Gerber | Refusing Remembrance in Rudy Wiebe's Come Back | ACQL | May 28, 9:00 a.m. | Victoria 110 |
| Kenneth Graham | The Language of Blessing in King Lear | CSRS | May 27, 1:45 p.m. | Victoria 608 |
| Randy Harris | A Neurocognitive Ontology of Rhetorical Figures | CSSR | June 1, 8:45 a.m. | OAK 218 |
| Megan Honsberger | Mindflux: Application of Micro Digital Abstinence | CCA | May 31, 1:45 p.m. | RCC 202 |
| Monique Kampherm | "Liberals Lead:" The Rhetorical Influence of CBC's Aggregate Polling Data on Voters in the 2015 Canadian National Election | CSSR | May 30, 4:00 p.m. | OAK 218 |
| Norm Klassen | Language and the Paradox of Nature and Grace: Spiritual Warfare in That Hideous Strength | CLSG | May 27, 12:15 p.m. | Victoria 505 |
| Alysia Kolentsis | Shakespeare’s Grammar | CSRS | May 27, 1:45 p.m. | Victoria 608 |
| Jason Lajoie | Gayming On the Grid: Playing through the Ludic Technology of Grindr | CGSA | June 2, 1:30 p.m. |
TRSM 1-149 |
| Victoria Lamont | Popular Westerns: Towards a Feminist Genealogy | ACCUTE | May 27, 8:45 a.m. | Victoria 101 |
| Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher | Data as the Commons: Rearticulating the Commons through Civic and Citizen Science [with B. Mehlenbacher] | CASDW | May 27, 10:00 a.m. | LIB 72 |
| Phil Miletic | Tender Vibrations: The Vibrational Nexus of Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons | ACCUTE | May 28, 8:45 a.m. | Victoria 303 |
| Phil Miletic |
MREs
and
Affective
Citizenships [written with Keely Cronin] | BSC | May 30, 4:00 p.m. | KHE-Kerr East 321C |
| Devon Moriarty | Viral Vaccines: Proposed Policy and the Rhetoric of Redditors' Response | CSSR | June 1, 2:00 p.m. | OAK 218 |
| Devon Moriarty | Rhetorical Inoculation: Proposed Vaccine Legislation and the Rhetoric of Public Distrust | CASDW | May 27, 10:00 a.m. | LIB 72 |
| Patricia Ofili | Apartheid Legal Screens and Nelson Mandela's Luminescence | CSSR | May 30, 3:00 p.m. | OAK 218 |
| Marcel O'Gorman | Making Non-Users - Hands on Experiments in Digital Moderation (panel org.) | CCA | May 31, 1:45 p.m. | RCC 202 |
| Marcel O'Gorman | Writing with a Soldering Iron | CCA | May 31, 1:45 p.m. | RCC 202 |
| Meghan Riley | "Hear[ing] the dead" and "remember[ing] the past": Ways of Knowing in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl and Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death | CAAS | May 27, 10:30 a.m. | Victoria 204 |
| Saeed Sabzian | The Aesthetics of Disability Poetry: Interrogating the Mainstream Poetics | CDSA | June 1, 9:30 a.m. | SHE Room D |
| Sylvia Terzian | Reconciliation, Rebirth and Return: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Exile in Dmitri Nasrallah’s Niko | ACQL | May 28, 9:00 a.m. | Victoria 106 |
|
Masa
Torbica | The Presence of Absence: Visual Hauntings in Canadian Literature / La présence de l’absence: les hantises visuellesdans la littérature canadienne (panel org.) | ACQL | May 27, 8:30 a.m. | Victoria 503 |
| Masa Torbica | AlieNation: Performing Canada as “New Canadian” Poets (A creative session & poetry reading) | ACQL | May 27, 4:00 p.m. | Victoria 210 |
| Masa Torbica | Repurposing white noise: Considering the decolonizing affordances of found poetry in Shane Rhodes’ X: Poems and Anti-Poems | ACQL | May 28, 9:00 a.m. | Victoria 106 |
| Caitlin Woodcock | Basketcase | CCA | May 31, 1:45 p.m. | RCC 202 |
2016
| Name | Title | Society/Group | Date/Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Veronica Austen | Seeing Photographically in Kim Barry Brunhuber’s Kameleon Man | ACCUTE |
May 28, 10:30 a.m. | SS1153 |
| Betsy Brey |
Twine, Hypertext, and Games: Ideologies and Implications | CGSA |
June
1, 1:00 p.m. |
Craigie Hall C309 |
| Keely Cronin |
Tweeting Barriers: Indigenous Narratives, Canada Reads, and Digital Debate | ACCUTE |
May
29, 8:45 a.m. | Social Sciences 423 |
| Bruce Dadey | A General Systems Approach to Rhetoric | CSSR |
June
2, 4:00 p.m. |
MacEwan Hall 280 Council Chambers |
| Shawn Dorey |
Starting Zones: Studying a Potential Intersection of Cultural Geography and Game Studies | CGSA |
June
3, 11:15 a.m. |
IDK Room 3 |
| Stephen Fernandez |
The Mortal Community: Embracing Finitude in Jérôme Bel and Theater HORA's Disabled Theater | CATR |
May
31, 2:15 p.m. | TBA |
| Kyle Gerber |
Rhetorical Figuration in Joseph Lowery’s “Benediction” | CSSR |
June
2, 2:45 p.m. | MacEwan Hall 280 Council Chambers |
| Kenneth Graham |
Penitent Princes and Plainspeaking Priests: Pastoral Power in The Winter’s Tale | CSRS |
May
28, 10:30 a.m. |
Professional Faculties 120 |
| Randy Harris |
Ploche, Uberscheme | CSSR |
June
2, 4:00 p.m. | MacEwan Hall 280 Council Chambers |
| Kate Lawson |
Grad Caucus Panel: Professionalization within/beyond Academia | ACCUTE |
May
29, 10:30 a.m. | SS 541 |
| Kate Lawson |
Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley: Family History as Intertextuality | ACCUTE |
May
30, 1:45 |
SS 1153 |
| Phil Miletic |
"And now everybody will do theirs": Remediating Everybody's Autobiography as a Radio Event | ACCUTE |
May
29, 10:30 | SS 209 |
| Patricia Ofili |
Gender Eclipse in Dominant Ideologies | CSSR |
June
2, 8:30 a.m. | MacEwan Hall 280 Council Chambers |
| Marcel O'Gorman |
The Research-Creation Problem in Digital Scholarship | CCA |
May
30, 10:15 a.m. | Sciences Theatre 135 |
| Sylvia Terzian |
Transnational Consciousness and Literary Cosmopolitanism: Arab-Canadian Literature in the Global Moment | CACLALS | May 29, 9:00 a.m. | SMD 402 |
| Sylvia Terzian |
The Role of the Academic Underclass: Facing the Challenges of the Changing Professoriate | ACCUTE |
May
31, 10:30 a.m. | SS 109 |
| Steve Wilcox |
Designing Videogames for Knowledge Translation | CCA |
May
29, 1:30 p.m. | Sciences Theatre 143 |
| Steve Wilcox | Ludic Topology: Towards an Ethical Theory of Game Time | CGSA |
June
1, 10:15 a.m. | Craigie Hall C309 |
2015
| Name | Title | Society/Group | Date | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clare Birmingham |
Help Wanted? A Keyword Analysis of How Writing Centre Communications Constitute a Relational Framework |
CASDW |
May 30, 11:00 a.m. |
Vanier 2075 |
| Bruce Dadey |
Toward a Critical Business Communication Pedagogy | CASDW |
June 1, 9:30 a.m. |
Vanier 1075 |
| Bruce Dadey |
Graphic Narratives and Technical Communication | CCA |
June 4, 3:15-4:15 p.m. |
CBY/B012 |
| Jay Dolmage |
Capital Ideas: Disabling Studies, Disability Studied, Disability Studies (Keynote) | CDSA |
June 3, 2:00 p.m. |
LMX 122 |
| Stephen Fernandez |
Networking Cities: Urban Performance, Mobile Technology, and the Production of Social Capital | CATR | June 2, 4:00-5:30 p.m. |
Room 310, Department of Theatre |
| Sarah Gibbons |
Neurological Diversity and Environmental (In)Justice: The Ecological Other in Popular Representations of Autism | CDSA | June 3, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
LMX 215 |
| Randy Harris | The Five Master Schemes | CSSR | June 5, 10:00 a.m. |
BSC 140 |
| Shelley Hulan |
Queer Edens in Marjorie Pickthall’s Little Hearts and Susan Frances Harrison’s The Forest of Bourg-Marie: What’s Nation Got To Do With It? | ACCUTE |
May 30, 3:30-5:00 p.m. | TBA |
| Shelley Hulan |
Polemical Economy: An Indian Context for Sara Jeannette Duncan’s The Imperialist |
CACLALS | May 31, 10:45 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. |
SMD 402 |
| Sara Humphreys |
The U.S. Economy in Fallen Women or Sober Up, Missus America! | ACCUTE | May 30, 3:30 p.m. | SMD 330 |
| Philip Meletic |
American New Sincerity and Virtual Community: Disembodiment and Community in David Foster Wallace’sInfinite Jest | ACCUTE | May 30, 1:45 - 3:15 p.m. | SMD 330 |
| Marcel O'Gorman |
The Art, Politics, and Philosphy of Digital Abstinence | CCA | June 5, 8:30 a.m. | STE/J0106 |
| Patricia Ofili |
Paradox of Barbarism and Fear in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians | CSSR | June 3, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. | BSC 140 |
| Alexandra Orlando |
The Cyborg Game: The Ludic Cinema of Deus Ex: Human Revolution | CGSA | June 4, 9:30 - 11:00 a.m. | MacDonald 121 |
| Saeed Sabzian |
The Sound of Fear in The Road, Movie and Novel | CSSR | June 3, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | BSC 140 |
| Winfried Siemerling |
Past's Future: Critical Black Canadian Memory Culture and the Documentary Films of Sylvia Hamilton | ACCUTE | May 31, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | SMD 226 |
| Heather Smyth |
"We nudge language into relations of becoming”: Collaborative Writing, Community-Building, and Canadian Literature | CACLALS | May 31, 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. | SMD 439 |
| Elise Vist |
Idiosyncratic Tagging and the Creation of Intimate Publics on Tumblr |
CGSA/CSDH | June 3, 10:45 - 11:45 a.m. |
Louis-Pasteur 285 |
| Stephanie White |
The Public Made Personal: Findings from a Study of a Service-Learning Writing Class | CASDW | May 31, 9:30 a.m. | Vanier 1075 |
| Steve Wilcox |
Digital Games as a Form of Cross-Cultural Knowledge Translation | CSDH | June 1, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m. | Lamoureux 217 |
| Steve Wilcox |
First Person Scholar: Talking to Games Academics, Enthusiasts and Professionals | CGSA | June 4, 9:30 - 11:00 a.m. | MacDonald 146 |
| Chad Wriglesworth |
Forms of Contingent Faith: The Necessity of Doubt in Christian Wiman's Poetry | CLSG | June 1, 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. |
Arts Building 350 |
| Robert Zacharias |
Canadian Literature: The Past 40 Years II |
ACQL / CACLALS | June 1, 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. | Simard 422 |