Winfried Siemerling, University of Waterloo

Research

black Canadian literature black Canadian film black Canadian music audience reception communication public sphere (1) Frankfurt School

Latest funding

Critical Theory, Blackness, and Anthropocene Poetics
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$78,980
Call and responsibility: the transformative reception aesthetics of black Canadian literature, film, and music
SSHRC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$107,876
Nonsimultaneity and Incomplete Time: From Bloch, Benjamin, and the Frankfurt School to Contemporary Black Critique
SSHRC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$43,874

All 5 grants and awards

Critical Theory, Blackness, and Anthropocene Poetics

Principal investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Siemerling, Winfried

$78,980

Call and responsibility: the transformative reception aesthetics of black Canadian literature, film, and music

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Siemerling, Winfried

Keywords: black Canadian literature; black Canadian film; black Canadian music; audience; reception; communication; public sphere

$107,876

Nonsimultaneity and Incomplete Time: From Bloch, Benjamin, and the Frankfurt School to Contemporary Black Critique

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Siemerling, Winfried

Keywords: (1) Frankfurt School; (2) Critical Theory; (3) Critical Race Theory; (4) Ernst Bloch; (5) Walter Benjamin; (6) nonsimultaneity; (7) Herbert Marcuse; (8) Hortense Spillers; (9) racism; (10) fascism

$43,874

International institute for critical studies in improvisation: a partnered research institute

Co-investigatorSSHRC2012Partnership Grants

Keywords: improvisation; collaboration; practice-based research; pedagogy; community health; social responsibility; intermediality; experimental technologies

$2,500,000

African Canadian writing, literary history, and the presence of the past

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011

Principal investigators: Siemerling, Winfried

Keywords: black Canadian writing; literary history

$54,544

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: black Canadian literature Dear Professor Siemerling, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on black canadian literature connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Critical Theory, Blackness, and Anthropocene Poetics" (2025), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]