You're invited to Critical Media Lab's 2024 Showcase featuring student work in critical design & creative writing! 📍Thursday, July 25, 5-7PM at Communitech Hub

Congrats to our UWaterloo English UWaterloo Arts students who showcased this year’s work at our annual CML Showcase last week!

Congratulations to UWaterloo English's randy allen harris who received an NSERC Discovery Horizon grant and  $371,580 of awarded funds over five years for a project titled “Rhetorical figures for human-like inductive biased language models.”

Words in Place: Award for UWaterloo English PhD candidate Sarah Casey. tinyurl.com/3mf8xrzz

Very grateful to have been supported by The Games Institute University of Waterloo for my research on VR, storytelling, and social justice. Thank you for the wonderful blog about our research. uwaterloo.ca/games-institut…

Excited to welcome two new postdoctoral fellows who have joined the Provost’s Program for Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Scholars: Dr. Geneva Smith and Dr. Paula Catalina Sanchez Nuñez de Villavicencio! Read more about their research: bit.ly/3WKNZCg

Words in Place: Dr. Marcel O’Gorman on Humanities and AI. tinyurl.com/ynpfmv8w

“Teaching self-regulation through education and through more creative means that actively engage students in learning to self-regulate is better than top-down bans,“ says Marcel O'Gorman of UWaterloo English. Read more on smartphone bans in schools: bit.ly/3XoBOLS

"Students will be much more likely to respond to more conservative #smartphone use if they understood the broader environmental, social and political contexts that put smartphones in their hands," says Marcel O'Gorman. Full story from Waterloo Region Record: therecord.com/news/waterloo-…

How should judges deal with the growing issue of deepfakes in court? A recent paper co-authored by CS Research Professor Maura R. Grossman discusses the growing challenges the courts face from the rise of deepfake and AI-generated materials. ediscoverytoday.com/2024/09/11/dee…

Please join us on Oct. 7 for Critical Tech Talk 10: Ecomedia and the Cost of Technological Progress with Cajetan Iheka. Details and registration information: uwaterloo.ca/arts/events/cr…

Looking forward to this!

Special congratulations to our UWaterloo English PhD graduates! Shannon Lodoen, Alexi Orchard, Lara El Mekaui (all pictured here), and Elianne El-Amyouni.

Catch up on Critical Tech Talk 10: Ecomedia and the Cost of Technological Progress with Cajetan Iheka. Full recording now available: youtu.be/bC9ajaJOi4w?si…

.UWaterloo English undergrad and graduate students: Submit your academic, professional, and creative writing for the annual English Department awards! The deadline for submissions is Friday, Jan. 24. For award and submission information, see the Awards page: buff.ly/42qYRbR

I am hiring a postdoc! Excellent research support, minimal teaching load, and an overall wonderful set up. The research focus is flexible as long as some part of your practice involves critical making or hands-on research in some form. (1/3)

Please join us virtually for Critical Tech Talk 11: Speculative Imaginaries and Technological Design, featuring Sherryl Vint. Friday, January 24 at 3:00 PM EST Details and registration: uwaterloo.ca/arts/events/cr…

Words in Place: An interview with UWaterloo English alumna Dr. Alexi Orchard, now teaching at the University of Notre Dame. buff.ly/3E9ulc3

✨Technology + Digital Studies ND Arts & Letters is hiring a 2025-2027 Postdoctoral Teaching Scholar✨at the intersection of computing/data science and liberal arts broadly construed. Cross-disciplinary scholars are encouraged to apply: apply.interfolio.com/163245 Review starts 3/3/25