wsiemerl@uwaterloo.ca
https://uwaterloo.ca/english/people-profiles/winfried-siemerling
Winfried Siemerlingis University Research Chair and Professor of English at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and
Associate of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. He won the Gabrielle Roy Prize for The Black Atlantic
Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past (2015; www.blackatlantic.ca;
French translation forthcoming 2022). Earlier books include Canada and Its Americas: Transnational Navigations (coedited), and The New North American Studies: Culture, Writing, and the Politics of Re/Cognition (Routledge 2005,
French translation 2010), He has contributed chapters to The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative
(2014). The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature (2012), and African American Literature in Transition 1750-
2015 (Cambridge UP, 2021). He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2019.