UWaterloo English prof Brianna Wiens participated in UWaterloo's Global Futures launch event on Jan. 21. tinyurl.com/3xs7zwsr

Congratulations to the winners of UWaterloo English's Outstanding Course Performance Awards for fall 2025! Here are the winners and their citations: tinyurl.com/4t2yk355

The Waterloo Science Fiction & Fantasy Club offers a wide variety of events, including gaming, a book club, and a short story contest each term. For more information: tinyurl.com/2xty7mex

You are warmly invited to attend the Winter 2026 Engineering Communication Student Poster Showcase, which will take place on Thursday, March 5 from 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. in the Davis Centre lobby. tinyurl.com/3usu66xe

The UWaterloo English X account will go inactive on Jan. 31, and all UWaterloo English information will appear exclusively on this feed, our Facebook page, and our blog, Words in Place. We invite all those following us on X to follow us here on our Bluesky feed! More details: tinyurl.com/2kjz6wvf.

UWaterloo English PhD alumna Kem-Laurin Lubin appeared on the "A Moment with Erik Fleming" podcast to discuss ethical AI, the risks of computational bias, and design heuristics to protect human dignity. tinyurl.com/44bfeb32

A documentary by @uw_english alumna Paula Thiessen titled Kam Theatre Lab: The Old Same Story will be screened Thursday, Feb. 5, 7:30pm at Wilfrid Laurier University, BA101. tinyurl.com/47npkmhu

The CFP deadline for RhetCanada's Spring Conference is now extended to Sunday, Jan. 25. The conference will take place from May 28-30 at St. Jerome’s University in Waterloo, Ontario. To submit your paper proposal and to register, go to our conference website: tinyurl.com/4jsz5jhc

Join the UWaterloo English Society for its first Writing in the Spotlight workhop--write about film, theatre, and the arts, and have a chance to be published in the Feb. edition of the Society's newsletter. Wed., Jan. 28, 6-7:30pm, HH 1104. www.instagram.com/p/DTjnkz3kcR0/

The St. Jerome’s Reading Series presents its first event of 2026 on Friday, Feb. 6, at 4:30 p.m. in SJ2 1002 with author and UWaterloo English professor Dr. Vinh Nguyen. tinyurl.com/39yfhept

The RhetCanada Winter Showcase takes place on Zoom this Saturday, Jan. 17. See the Winter Showcase website for the schedule and registration instructions: tinyurl.com/yezudkjd

Former UWaterloo English faculty member and Distinguished Professor Emeritus Dr. Warren Ober, who worked at UWaterloo from 1965-1995, is remembered in today's Daily Bulletin. tinyurl.com/ydea3abw

It’s time for year-end lists, which includes our annual round-up of traditionally published books by Waterloo Region authors (including some from UWaterloo English!). tinyurl.com/j5du3z4s

Submit your academic, professional, and creative writing for the English department’s graduate and undergraduate awards! Deadline: Jan. 23, 2026. tinyurl.com/5h59ytxv

Congratulations to our newest PhD graduate, Dr. Jerika Sanderson, who successfully defended her dissertation, "Revivifying, Repurposing, Reimagining: From Commodification to Kinship in 21st-Century De-Extinction and Xenotransplantation Narratives." tinyurl.com/ysntw9r2

Congratulations to our newest PhD graduate, Dr. Valerie Uher, who successfully defended her dissertation, "Resource Rhetoric in Three Canadian Novels, 1919-1945." tinyurl.com/3yj3kyhu

CFP: RhetCanada invites paper proposals for its 2026 conference, which will be held May 28-30, 2026, at St. Jerome’s University in Waterloo, Ontario. Deadline: Jan. 19, 2026. tinyurl.com/2s3c8dba

Congratulations to our newest PhD graduate, Dr. Meghan Riley, who successfully defended her dissertation, "Altering Bodies, Altering Minds: Examining Essentialism, Gendered Discrimination and Violence, Racism, and Colonialism through Speculative Fiction Tropes." tinyurl.com/3fv9vyvp

Congratulations to our newest PhD graduate, Dr. Kem-Laurin Lubin, who successfully defended her dissertation, "Ethotic Heuristics in Artificial Intelligence: A Rhetorical Framework for Guiding Responsible Data Design Praxis in Healthcare and Surveillance." tinyurl.com/yc8rkk7v

The fall 2025 Science Communication Showcase will feature 24 sections of ENGL/COMMST 193, 12 instructors, and over 500 students. Come see the students' projects! Mon. Dec. 1 - Tues. Dec. 2, STC 2001. tinyurl.com/ysj5cmmv

In addition to the UWaterloo English Creative Writing Showcase on Wed., Nov. 26, from 1-2:30pm in SJU 1104 (tinyurl.com/24wjkv7w), the UWaterloo Creative Writing Club is holding a poetry writing workshop that evening from 5:30-8:30 in EV1 138 (tinyurl.com/mrywtue2).

The latest UWaterloo English Society newsletter is now available, with events, advice from an English major, and an author spotlight! tinyurl.com/yv4kt6rx

Congratulations to our newest PhD graduate, Dr. Aleksander Franiczek, who successfully defended his dissertation, "Immersion, Roleplaying, Narrative Design: Concepts for Understanding Videogame Narrative." tinyurl.com/5xpkucwx

Congratulations to UWaterloo English MA alumna Renée Belliveau, whose newest novel, A Sense of Things Beyond, has just been released by Nimbus Press. tinyurl.com/482v8bjk

Congratulations to UWaterloo English's Dr. Vinh Nguyen, whose memoir, The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse, was nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award in the nonfiction category.

We mourn the passing of sessional instructor Dr. Dennis Lewis, who began teaching at UWaterloo English in 2018. Dennis taught internationally before earning his PhD at University of Essex. His book Reading and Writing through Auden will be released this fall. tinyurl.com/2njdvfj9

The Waterloo Initiative for Solarpunk and Hope (WISH) reading group will meet to discuss Solarpunk and Afrofuturism on Nov. 13, 2:35-3:30pm at the Grad House. www.waterloosolarpunks.ca

The UWaterloo English Society is partnering up with UWaterloo SAGE to answer your burning questions about Grad School! Nov. 10, 5:30-6:30pm, HH 138. Info: tinyurl.com/ycnenaxn. To submit questions: tinyurl.com/eza9nwv4

A last-minute reminder that the deadline for submitting proposals for @rhetcan.bsky.social's Winter Showcase is this Friday, Nov. 7! To submit your paper proposal or to register to attend the showcase, please go to our event webpage: tinyurl.com/2vmcdz4k.

The UWaterloo English Society's October newsletter is now available! tinyurl.com/5n7ksv72

This week the Reading Series at Saint Jeromes's University hosts a fiction double-header with Karen Smythe and Kasia Jaronczyk! Fri., Nov. 7, 4:30pm, SJ2 1002. tinyurl.com/rrk38n3f

Grad Students—grow your communication skills and share your research via GRADflix, a UWaterloo video competition for graduate students. tinyurl.com/ycxctntr

The @uw_english fall Creative Writing Showcase & Open Mic will take place Wed., Nov. 26 at @StJeromesUni, Sweeney Hall 1104. Refreshments will be served. To RSVP and register to read: tinyurl.com/t9x5wk7v

Photos featuring some of our proud UWaterloo English MA and PhD grads who received their degrees this Saturday. Congratulations!

We're proud to announce the names of the @uw_english students who will receive their degrees at the fall 2025 convocation this weekend. Congratulations to all! tinyurl.com/yx2sh6ha

The deadline for submitting proposals for RhetCanada's Winter Showcase is now extended to Nov. 7! To submit your paper proposal or to register to attend the showcase, please go to our event webpage: tinyurl.com/2vmcdz4k.

Congratulations to our newest PhD graduate, Dr. Chris Martin, who successfully defended his dissertation, "Decoding QAnon: Building an Adaptive Alternative Reality at the Crossroads of American Conspiracism, Cultic Commodification, and Schizogenic Hyperreality." tinyurl.com/4z6nr2pv

You are invited to attend the Fall 2025 Engineering Communication Student Poster Showcase, which will take place on Wednesday, October 29 from 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. in the Davis Centre lobby. tinyurl.com/mrtj3uyy

UWaterloo English is well represented at the 2026 Wild Writer's Festival, Nov. 7-9 in Waterloo. tinyurl.com/4y4mfswn

The Nov. 1 submission deadline for the RhetCanada Winter Showcase is rapidly approaching! The Showcase will be held online on Jan. 17, 2026. Presentations can be 10-12 minute lightning papers or informal project in progress updates. Info: tinyurl.com/2dxw45a6.

The UWaterloo English Society's October Update is now available, including information on the departmental reception, various news items and other events, advice from an English major, and an author spotlight. tinyurl.com/2wuun69b

Congratulations to UWaterloo English's Ashley Mehlenbacher, who, with Christopher Thaiss, is the co-author of the 2nd edition of Writing Science in the Twenty-First Century. tinyurl.com/473cxsrp

Q&A: Fuse founder Joy Savage explains how the skills that she developed in her English/History BA enabled her strategy consulting and financial services career. Wed., Oct. 8, 12:30-1:30pm, HH 2034. tinyurl.com/yrpzwvj5

The Ethical Tech for a Global Future (ETGF) Symposium takes place Thurs. Oct. 2, 9am-3pm in DC 1301/1302. The Symposium explores the ethical dimensions of tech development and features a number of UWaterloo English speakers. tinyurl.com/2x97w8v7

Congratulations to the winners of the UWaterloo English Outstanding Course Performance Awards for spring 2025! tinyurl.com/mrn672yp

This year's Reading Series at St. Jerome's begins with a visit from poet Sneha Madhavan-Reese. Friday, October 3, 4:30pm in SJ2 1002. tinyurl.com/ysn53mb7

The CFP for the RhetCanada Winter Showcase, to be held online Jan. 17, 2026, is now available. The submission deadline is Nov. 1. tinyurl.com/2dxw45a6.

The Canadian Communication Association is holding its 2026 annual conference from June 2-4 at the University of Windsor. CFP: tinyurl.com/2s4bsxfs.

UWaterloo English PhD alumnus Giuseppe Femia recently published an article in the International Journal of Role-Playing titled "Uninformed Consent in TTRPGs: Communicating Expectations to Avoid Nightmare Game Master Horror Stories." tinyurl.com/epp34ejt

Congratulations to our newest UWaterloo English PhD graduate, Dr. Carolyn Eckert, who successfully defended her dissertation, "Punctuated Ethos: Addressing Trust, Credibility and Expertise in Times of Crisis." tinyurl.com/4ua9sc6v