Dr. Aimée Morrison

Aimée Morrison is an Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo, focused on literature, digital humanities, history and theory of media, and multimedia practice. Dr. Morrison’s current research engages with emergent forms of social media as a set of complex and consequential rhetorical, literary, and social practices undertaken by ordinary people across the full spectrum of daily life. She is currently working on a book-length study called “Deciphering Digital Life Writing,” which aims to produce a mode of criticism suitable to extant and future online communication tools, attuned to notions of personal identity, and to the constructive role of technology in mediating these online. Her current research examines how people decide what to say about themselves online, and what motivates these decisions.