Christine McWebb
Director, Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business, University of Waterloo
University administration, Academic startups, Internationalization and curriculum development, Media history, Digital culture, Digital humanities, Medieval literature and culture, French literature and culture
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Christine McWebb - Digital media and humanities research
Christine McWebb is an associate professor of French Studies in the Faculty of Arts, as well as academic program director at Waterloo's Stratford Campus. As a digital humanist, Dr. McWebb studies the ways in which new technologies and new media impact on traditional humanities disciplines, on human interaction, society, and communication. She also explores digital applications as a means to further studies in the humanities and the social sciences, particularly as new tools and data enable new research questions and perspectives.
CBC Radio 1, August 27, 2017Radio/Podcast
CBC Cross-country checkup; conversation with host Randy Boyagoda.
Biography
As the founding director of the Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business (since 2011), Christine McWebb is responsible for the overall strategic, curricular, budgetary oversight of the School. Under her direction, the School grew from 11 to 800 students and 0 to 15 faculty members since its inception. Her scholarship focuses on the Digital Humanities, as well as late medieval French and German literature and (visual) culture of the high and the late Middle Ages. Her areas of expertise are (digital) media history and reception, software development for the humanities, medieval literature, and iconography.