If you’re coming out of your winter shell, looking forward to spring and social events, UWaterloo English’s Dr. Sarah Tolmie is one of those participating in the Riverside Reading Series. The reading takes place April 27th at 3pm, at the Dog-Eared Cafe in Paris, Ontario.
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Congratulations to Kem-Laurin Lubin, who recently appeared on the MIT Panel “How to Govern AI.” Kem is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Waterloo, where she focuses on AI Rhetoric. She is also the 2021-2022 OGS/QEII-GSST Scholarship (2021-2022) as well as President’s Graduate Scholarship (PGS) 2021. She is also the founder of Human Tech Futures.
You can watch the panel here.
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The 2023-2024 University of Waterloo Department of English Language and Literature Awards Ceremony was held on Friday, April 5, 2024. Congratulations to all our award winners!
Albert Shaw Poetry Prize: I. S. Bashirah, Honourable mention: Nadia Khan
Andrew James Dugan Prize in Literature: Andie Kaiser
Andrew James Dugan Prize in Rhetoric and Professional Writing: Jillian Franz
Award in American Literature and Culture: Jared Cubilla
Canadian Literature Prize: Hanna Freitas
Co-op Reflective Report Award: Vyshnavi Rajeevan
Diaspora and Transnational Studies Prize: Naomi Francis
Donald R. and Mary E. Snider Literary Award for Excellence in Non-Fiction Writing: Anna-Maria Brokalakis
Emerging Scholar Award: Alicia Sheppard
English Society Creative Writing Award for Poetry: Kassandra Lynne Attwood
English Society Creative Writing Award for Prose: Sara Funduk
Janice Del Matto Memorial Award in Creative Writing: Sebrina Bank Joergensen
Olive Carrick Scholarship in English: Nadia Khan
Rhetoric and Digital Design Award: Aidan de Villa-Choi, Yingying Huang, Vade Lail, Emma van Weesenbeek
Rhetoric and Professional Writing Award: Amaya Kodituwakku
The G.R. Hibbard Shakespeare Prize: Patricia Fagan
Walter R. Martin English 251 Award: Chloe Shantz
Beltz Essay Prize, MA: Varsha Thulasi Pillai
Beltz Essay Prize, PhD: Sarah Casey
David Nimmo English Graduate Scholarship: Shannon Lodoen, Anna McWebb
English Rhetoric Essay Award, MA: Sophie Morgan, Chinye Obiago
English Rhetoric Essay Award, PhD: Carolyn Eckert, Honourable mentions: Sarah Casey, Omnia Elsakran
Gladys Srivastava Graduate Scholarship: Kasturi Ghosh, Melissa N.P. Johnson, Alexi Orchard, Christopher Rogers
Graduate Co-op Work Report Award: Ariel Fullerton
Graduate Creative Writing Award: Maab Al-Rashdan
Graduate Professional Communication Award: Alyssa Clarkson
Independent Graduate Instructor Award for Excellence in Teaching: Chris Martin
Jack Gray Graduate Fellowship: Fatima Zohra
Lea Vogel-Nimmo English Graduate Professionalization Award: Kellie Chouinard, Kasturi Ghosh, Rency Luan, Humaira Shoaib, Fatima Zohra
TA Award for Excellence in Teaching: Damilola Adebajo
W. K. Thomas Graduate Scholarship: Jin Sol Kim, Dakota Pinheiro, Sabrina Sgandurra, Humaira Shoaib, Valerie Uher
Congratulations to Dr. Ken Hirschkop, who has won The Sebeok-Love Award for the Best Article in Language Sciences 2023. Dr. Hirshkop was recognized for his contribution “Inference and indexicality, or how to solve Bakhtin’s problem with heteroglossia” (Language Sciences, Volume 97, 101544). For more information, see their website.
Join UWaterloo English’s Dr. Sarah Tolmie and others for Evening of Poetry in Celebration of National Poetry Month. It takes place April 8 at the Registry Theatre, Kitchener, at 7:30pm. For more information, see the webpage.
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The Department of English Language and Literature, the Department of Communication Arts, and the Faculty of Science invite you to attend the Winter 2024 Science Communication Showcase. It’s happening Monday, 1 April (10:00am – 5:20pm), and Tuesday, 2 April (8:30am-5:20pm) in the Science Teaching Complex (STC) 2001 – 2nd Floor Foyer.
Science students in ENGL/COMMST 193: Communication in the Sciences will present science communication work they are doing in this course. Visit students as they showcase the skills they have developed, and talk to the instructors and departments.
For more information, contact George Lamont (Dept. of English) at glamont@uwaterloo.ca.
Faculty & Staff, please let us know when you will visit: https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/bWWDz6ob.
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UWaterloo undergraduate student, writer, and poet Matthew Kee will provide tips on how to perform your poetry in this workshop. Hone your skills reading your own work for an audience! Drop in to the English Department Library (HH 232) anytime during the workshop hours, April 3, 11-12:30.
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Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Harris, whose third picture book The Keeper of Stars (OwlKids 2024) has been named a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection (US) and a TD Summer Reading Club selection (Canada). Of all the traditionally published picture books in North America in a given year, “only the top 3% are deemed worthy of being named JLG Gold Standard Selections.” The Keeper of Stars comes out April 15th, and is available for pre-order. There will be a local launch Saturday, May 4th, at 10:30am at the Waterloo Public Library – Eastside Branch (2001 University Ave E.). A Toronto launch will happen at Mabel’s Fables, April 17th at 6:30pm.
Dr. Harris will be teaching ENGL 432, a special topics Creative Writing course dedicated to picture books, in Fall 2024.
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The PRES Lecture Committee is pleased to announce the next PRES lecture, Friday, April 5th at 3:00 PM in HH232 where PhD Candidate Shannon Lodoen will present her PRES Lecture entitled An Altered Sense of Consequence: Agency, Expectation, and Experience in the Smartphone Society. Please see below for full details.
Lecture details: Informed by the twenty-first century “return to things” in the humanities and social sciences (Barnett and Boyle), my dissertation research explores how smartphones function as persuasive agents on both a micro and macro level. In this presentation, drawing from the third chapter of my dissertation, I use the complementary lenses of captology (Fogg) and procedural rhetoric (Bogost)—two sides of what Mateus calls “empirical digital rhetoric”—to demonstrate how design logics can alter the sense of consequence associated with smartphone-facilitated interactions and actions. In some cases, the sense of consequence is greatly reduced, while in others, it is overemphasized or amplified. In both situations, it is important to consider the mechanisms through which smartphone usage affects users’ perceptions of consequentiality—consequentiality not only of what they do with their phones (communicating, shopping, gaming, etc.), but also of their broader actions and interactions with the world and other people.
Bio: Shannon Lodoen is a doctoral candidate and sessional instructor in the Department of English Language and Literature. She holds an Honours BA in English Literature and Rhetoric from Waterloo and a master’s from Western University’s Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism. Shannon’s SSHRC-funded dissertation examines how smartphones rhetorically construct and position users as subjects. Following the completion of her PhD, Shannon will be joining Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University as an Assistant Professor of Professional Writing, where she plans to turn her research towards examining how digital communications technologies and Artificial Intelligence affect the learning experiences of university students.
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Congratulations to Dr. Heather Love, whose recently published monograph, Cybernetic Aesthetics: Modernist Networks of Information and Data (Cambridge University Press, 2023) has been shortlisted for the 2023 British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS) Book Prize! Results will be announced in April at the BSLS conference.
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