Christopher Giannakopoulos is a lecturer at the University of Waterloo whose work examines contemporary poetry and the representational limits of epistemology in poetic language.
Chris’ doctoral dissertation, Knowing Language: The Poetics of Epistemology, examines the rhetorical and epistemological relations between poetry and other disciplines—especially philosophy, history, and theology—in the works of Jan Zwicky, Paul Muldoon, and Geoffrey Hill. The project argues that poetry does not merely represent knowledge but tests the stability of discursive meaning, showing how poetic language materializes and complicates notions of truth, thinking, and knowing.
Chris teaches courses in literary studies, rhetoric, and technical communication, and has presented research at NeMLA (2026), Rhetoric Canada (2021, 2026), ACCUTE (2019, 2026), the LABRC (2025, UK), and the MSA (2019). While he continues to revise Knowing Language into a monograph, his next project, Lyric Superpositions, develops a platform for digitally-assisted literary criticism that extends his research on poetry and interdisciplinarity into the digital humanities.