Prof. Christine McWebb
Christine McWebb currently serves as the founding Associate Vice-President, Faculty and Academic Life. Prior to her current leadership role, she was the founding academic director and founding director of the Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business for over 10 years where she was responsible for the development of new undergraduate and graduate programs in the Digital Arts, Technology and Business space and building out a new thriving satellite campus. She has held various other administrative roles at all levels of the University, such as interim Associate Vice-President, International Operations. She also co-led the task force on freedom of expression and inclusive engagement at the University of Waterloo and currently serves as Chair of the Global Futures Steering Committee.
She is a professor of French Medieval Literature and Digital Humanities in the Faculty of Arts Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business and the School of Critical and Creative Humanities. Before joining the Stratford School, she worked as Associate Professor in the Department of French Studies at the University of Waterloo and as Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta. She has published extensively in the areas of late medieval literature/culture, the interaction between text and iconography, scientific discourse in literature, and Digital Humanities. As director and a researcher of the MARGOT project, she led several international collaborative projects in the area of Digital Humanities, such as the development of image annotation software and the creation of enriched databases of medieval manuscripts. Her teaching spans undergraduate and graduate courses in French and German literature/culture, translation studies, Digital Humanities, Digital Cultures, and Digital Experience Innovation.
