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Heather Love grew up in a small town on the western edge of the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia and completed her Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance at the University of Victoria in 2005. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Honours English in 2006 from the same institution and subsequently pursued a Master’s degree at Queen’s University in 2007. Finally, she obtained her PhD from Indiana University in 2015. Love joined the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo in 2018 and her research interests primarily lie in transatlantic modernist literary studies. She emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches that bring literary texts into conversation with concepts and discourses related to science, technology, and health. Her major work, "Cybernetic Aesthetics: Modernist Networks of Information Data" (Cambridge, 2023), explores the interplay between experimental modernist literature and the technical disciplines of information management that crystallized during World War II. Love has received several accolades, including the 2025 Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize and was a finalist for the British Society for Literature and Science Book Prize in 2023. Throughout her career, she has held leadership roles in various professional organizations while advocating for the importance of humanities perspectives in STEM contexts.
Includes fields like Clinical, Cognitive, Developmental, and Industrial/Organizational Psychology.