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Sara Humphreys is an Associate Teaching Professor and ATWP 250 course coordinator in the Academic and Technical Writing Program at the University of Victoria. She actively contributes to university governance through Senate membership (2023-2026) and serves on the Canadian Association of Discourse and Writing Studies executive committee (2024-2026), while remaining active in the Faculty Association.
Her educational background includes:
- BA from Nipissing University (completed as a mature student)
- MA in English from the University of Toronto
- PhD from the University of Waterloo specializing in Discourse and Text Analysis and Rhetoric
Dr. Humphreys' research centers on how communication genres function across social contexts to accommodate, affect, oppress, and liberate diverse audiences. Her work critically examines popular video games as cultural expression, online communication forms, multiliteracies, workplace discourse, and Canadian composition practices with specific attention to supporting marginalized student populations. She investigates the intersection of Rhetorical Genre Studies, Media/Game Studies, and Writing Studies to reveal how language constructs reality and empowers agency.
Her 2024 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Knowledge Synthesis Grant Writing & Power: Policies and Position Statements for Social Change produced a published report in January 2025, while her monograph Manifest Destiny 2.0: Genre Trouble in Gameworlds (University of Nebraska Press, 2021) established foundational work in game studies. Dr. Humphreys approaches teaching as liberation pedagogy, designing curricula to remove barriers for marginalized students and encouraging them to connect composition with their own communities, histories, and knowledges. She cultivates student responsibility as scholars and public intellectuals through critical engagement with rhetoric's transformative potential.
