Faculty

Carol Acton, Professor

cgacton@uwaterloo.ca

519-884-8111 x28238

Office: SH 2201

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Literature and medicine
Writing by nurses in the First and Second World Wars
Writing by medical personnel from the First World War to the war in Iraq

Veronica Austen, Associate Dean, Associate Professor

vjn@uwaterloo.ca

519-884-8111 x28300

Office: SH 2202

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Literature and Food/Eating Studies
Eating, Agency, and Self
Food, Eating, and Systems of Power and Privilege

Andrew Deman, Lecturer

jademan@uwaterloo.ca

519-884-8111 x28234

Office: SH 2211

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The impact of transgender characters and stories in YA Comics on gender dysphoria.
The excision of long-term mental and emotional trauma in superhero narratives and the subsequent impact on real-world perceptions of PTSD.
The role of sexual agency and awareness in humanizing comics characters and displacing them from the male gaze.

Maureen Drysdale, Professor

mdrysdal@uwaterloo.ca

519-884-8111 x28288

Office: SJ1 3021

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Mental health and well-being in work and education
Mental health during developmental and life transitions
Mental health literacy
Moral injury and moral distress
Psychological effects of gendered attitudes and rhetoric in work and education
The expression of mental health and well-being in literature, film, and other media

Scott Kline, Associate Professor

scott.kline@uwaterloo.ca

519-884-8111 x28289

Office: SH 2024

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Bystander responses to victims of out of hospital cardiac arrest
Health care justice
Bioethics
Spirituality and health care

Alysia Kolentsis, Associate Professor

amkolentsis@uwaterloo.ca

519-884-8111 x28280

Office: SH 2206

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Narratives of care
Aging and dementia
Early modern representations of illness and bodies

Jane Kuepfer, Schlegel Specialist in Spirituality and Aging

jane.kuepfer@uwaterloo.ca

519-885-0220 x24232

Office: CGUC 2116

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spirituality and aging, including dementia
spiritual care in long-term care and retirement communities.

Sahver Kuzucuoglu, Lecturer

skuzucuo@uwaterloo.ca

Death, dying, and bereavement
Interdisciplinary literacy of death and dying in North America
Cross-cultural understandings, relations, and discourses in multicultural societies

Heather Love, Assistant Professor

heather.love@uwaterloo.ca

519 888-4567 x 42555

Office: HH 367

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Early twentieth-century Anglo-American literature and technology
Medical, media, and literary representation of early twentieth-century obstetrics practice
Cultural narratives of health and illness

Caley McCarthy, Dragen Lab Assistant Director & Lab Manager