diff --git a/marko/helpers.py b/marko/helpers.py
index ff3041a..9e6ec82 100644
--- a/marko/helpers.py
+++ b/marko/helpers.py
@@ -8,19 +8,20 @@
 import re
 from functools import partial
 from importlib import import_module
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, overload
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Callable, Generic, TypeVar, overload
 
 from marko.renderer import Renderer
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from typing import Any, Callable, Container, Iterable, TypeVar
+    from typing import Any, Container, Iterable
 
-    from .element import Element
+    from marko.element import Element
 
-    RendererFunc = Callable[[Any, Element], Any]
-    TRenderer = TypeVar("TRenderer", bound=RendererFunc)
-    D = TypeVar("D", bound="_RendererDispatcher")
 
+T = TypeVar("T")
+U = TypeVar("U")
+ElementT = TypeVar("ElementT", bound="Element")
+RendererFunc = Callable[[T, ElementT], U]
 
 def camel_to_snake_case(name: str) -> str:
     """Takes a camelCased string and converts to snake_case."""
@@ -109,7 +110,7 @@ def partition_by_spaces(text: str, spaces: str = " \t") -> tuple[str, str, str]:
 class MarkoExtension:
     parser_mixins: list[type] = dataclasses.field(default_factory=list)
     renderer_mixins: list[type] = dataclasses.field(default_factory=list)
-    elements: list[type[Element]] = dataclasses.field(default_factory=list)
+    elements: list[type["Element"]] = dataclasses.field(default_factory=list)
 
 
 def load_extension(name: str, **kwargs: Any) -> MarkoExtension:
@@ -136,11 +137,13 @@ def load_extension(name: str, **kwargs: Any) -> MarkoExtension:
         ) from None
 
 
-class _RendererDispatcher:
+class _RendererDispatcher(Generic[T, ElementT, U]):
     name: str
 
     def __init__(
-        self, types: type[Renderer] | tuple[type[Renderer], ...], func: RendererFunc
+        self,
+        types: type[Renderer] | tuple[type[Renderer], ...],
+        func: RendererFunc[T, ElementT, U],
     ) -> None:
         from marko.ast_renderer import ASTRenderer, XMLRenderer
 
@@ -148,9 +151,10 @@ def __init__(
         self._mapping.setdefault((ASTRenderer, XMLRenderer), self.render_ast)
 
     def dispatch(
-        self: D, types: type[Renderer] | tuple[type[Renderer], ...]
-    ) -> Callable[[RendererFunc], D]:
-        def decorator(func: RendererFunc) -> D:
+        self: _RendererDispatcher[T, ElementT, U],
+        types: type[Renderer] | tuple[type[Renderer], ...],
+    ) -> Callable[[RendererFunc[T, ElementT, U]], _RendererDispatcher[T, ElementT, U]]:
+        def decorator(func: RendererFunc[T, ElementT, U]) -> _RendererDispatcher[T, ElementT, U]:
             self._mapping[types] = func
             return self
 
@@ -160,10 +164,10 @@ def __set_name__(self, owner: type, name: str) -> None:
         self.name = name
 
     @staticmethod
-    def render_ast(self, element: Element) -> Any:
+    def render_ast(self, element: "Element") -> Any:
         return self.render_children(element)
 
-    def super_render(self, r: Any, element: Element) -> Any:
+    def super_render(self, r: Any, element: "Element") -> Any:
         """Call on the next class in the MRO which has the same method."""
         klasses = (c for c in type(r).mro() if self.name in c.__dict__)
         try:
@@ -175,12 +179,23 @@ def super_render(self, r: Any, element: Element) -> Any:
             return getattr(parent, self.name)(r, element)
 
     @overload
-    def __get__(self: D, obj: None, owner: type) -> D: ...
+    def __get__(
+        self: _RendererDispatcher[T, ElementT, U],
+        obj: None,
+        owner: type,
+    ) -> _RendererDispatcher[T, ElementT, U]: ...
 
     @overload
-    def __get__(self: D, obj: Renderer, owner: type) -> RendererFunc: ...
-
-    def __get__(self: D, obj: Renderer | None, owner: type) -> RendererFunc | D:
+    def __get__(
+        self: _RendererDispatcher[T, ElementT, U],
+        obj: Renderer,
+        owner: type,
+    ) -> RendererFunc[T, ElementT, U]: ...
+
+    def __get__(
+        self: _RendererDispatcher[T, ElementT, U],
+        obj: Renderer | None, owner: type,
+    ) -> RendererFunc[T, ElementT, U] | _RendererDispatcher[T, ElementT, U]:
         if obj is None:
             return self
         for types, func in self._mapping.items():
@@ -191,8 +206,8 @@ def __get__(self: D, obj: Renderer | None, owner: type) -> RendererFunc | D:
 
 def render_dispatch(
     types: type[Renderer] | tuple[type[Renderer], ...],
-) -> Callable[[RendererFunc], _RendererDispatcher]:
-    def decorator(func: RendererFunc) -> _RendererDispatcher:
+) -> Callable[[RendererFunc[T, ElementT, U]], _RendererDispatcher[T, ElementT, U]]:
+    def decorator(func: RendererFunc[T, ElementT, U]) -> _RendererDispatcher[T, ElementT, U]:
         return _RendererDispatcher(types, func)
 
     return decorator