Sponsored by the faculty of the University Writing Program at the University of Florida, Waves is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal whose aim is to promote scholarship, creativity, and community among undergraduate students.
We started Waves to showcase the broad range of academic disciplines, intellectual pursuits, and modalities of communication that are not only representative of our own program’s students, but of students everywhere. We strive for Waves to be diverse and progressive. As a faculty-led editorial team whose own teaching, writing, and research span a wide range of fields and interests, we aim to make this journal inclusive: we are multidisciplinary and multimodal, and we endeavor to promote the breadth of voices, perspectives, and identities that represent our campus, our communities, and our world.
Meet the Editorial Team
Emily Bald, Editor-in-chief
Emily Bald received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington in Seattle, where she specialized in 19th- and early 20th-century American literature. Her dissertation examines the cultural politics of literary, philosophical, and scientific understandings of time at the turn of the 20th century. Her work has been published in American Literary Realism and an edited collection of essays on novelistic time. As a lecturer at UF, she teaches writing for sustainability and the built environment, the humanities, gender studies, and the medical sciences.
Eric Vallee
Eric Vallee received his Ph.D. in English at Pennsylvania State University, where he specialized in 19th-century American literature. His dissertation examines interdisciplinary work in literature and medicine to unpack cultural representations of gender, race, and (dis)ability. His work has appeared in Early American Studies and Pennsylvania History. At the University Writing Program at UF, he teaches writing in the health professions, physical sciences, engineering, and the law.
Andréa Caloiaro
Andréa Caloiaro received his PhD in English at the University of Florida, specializing in Irish literature and film. His research examines Irish literature and film on war and militarism through the lenses of trauma and gender theory, narratology, and literature’s relationship to historiography and public commemoration. Andréa’s work appears in Études Irlandaises, e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies, Aethlon: Journal of Sports Literature, among others. At the University Writing Program at UF, he teaches writing in the medical sciences and health professions, engineering, professional communication, and public engagement.