Assistant Professor, English Language & Literature

Brianna WiensBrianna I. Wiens (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media & Rhetoric in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo. Her interdisciplinary work draws on her mixed-race queer activist-scholar experience to explore the digitally and culturally mediated phenomena of networked social movements and the politics of their design. Dr. Wiens co-runs the digital archive Feminists Do Media (IG: @aesthetic.resistance) out of Feminist Think Tank, a research-creation lab. Wiens's collaborative work has recently appeared in NECSUS, Feminist Media Studies, and Digital Studies/Le Champ Numériqe. She is a co-editor of Networked Feminisms: Activist Assemblies and Digital Practices (Lexington Books 2021) and is lead editor in the collection Stories of Feminist Protest and Resistance: Digital Performative Assemblies (Lexington Books 2023).

Contact Information:

Extension: 41284

Office: HH 255

Email: biwiens@uwaterloo.ca

Brianna's English Department profile

Affiliation: 
University of Waterloo

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