AV俱乐部

Remarks:

I am the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and a member of the Department of English at AV俱乐部. My latest book,聽Canada Through American Eyes: Literature of Canadian Exceptionalism聽was published in 2023 by Palgrave Macmillan. I鈥檓 most interested in how cross-border relationships have shaped literary and cultural studies in both Canada and the U.S. I have supervised MA and PhD theses on a wide array of academic topics including the poetry of Leonard Cohen, English-Canadian short fiction by women, Dionne Brand鈥檚 poetry, Indigenous adaptations of Shakespearean drama, English-Canadian female fiction writers鈥� use of humour, Douglas Coupland, depictions of female adolescence in Atlantic Canadian literature, the increasing conservatism of recent English-Canadian historical novels, body image in contemporary Canadian women鈥檚 writing, healing in recent Indigenous women鈥檚 literature, and the reformation of Northeastern literary relations. I have also supervised several creative writing theses (plays, poetry, and prose).

Selected Publications:

鈥凌别补诲颈苍驳 Evangeline and What is Left the Daughter: Tracing American Projections of Grief Across the Forty-Ninth Parallel.鈥� Comparative American Studies 18 (2021)..

鈥淏ecoming Bird(ie): Exposing Canadian Government Complicity with Forced Adoptions in Christina Sunley鈥檚 The Tricking of Freya鈥� 2021. Exploring Canada: Exploits and Encounters. Eds. Gerd Bj酶rhovde and Janne Korkka. Bruxelles, Belgium: Peter Lang. 121-130.

鈥淕erman Internment Camps in the Maritimes: Another Untold Story in P.S. Duffy鈥檚 The Cartographer of No Man鈥檚 Land.鈥� Peer-reviewed contribution to On the Other Side(s) of 150: Untold Stories and Critical Approaches to History, Literature, and Identity in Canada. Eds. Linda Morra and Sarah Henzi. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2021. 221-239.

鈥淭he Missionary Position: The American Roots of Northrop Frye鈥檚 Peaceable Kingdom.鈥� The Journal of Canadian Studies 52.2 (2018): 361-380.

聽鈥淓scape to Canada: Richard Ford鈥檚 Fugitive Novel.鈥澛� Canadian Review of American Studies 48.1 (2018): 38-62.

鈥淩efusing the Borders of Can. Lit.鈥澛� Refuse: CanLit in Ruins. Eds. Hannah McGregor, Julie Rak, and Erin Wunker. Toronto: BookThug, 2018. 165-176.聽聽

鈥淎cadian Identities, Arcadian Dreams: Ted Dykstra's Evangeline.鈥� 聽Reading Between the Borderlines. Ed. Gillian Roberts. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen鈥檚 UP, 2018. 310-351.

In the Belly of a Laughing God: Humour and Irony in the Poetry of Native Women Writers.聽 Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011.聽 ASPP funded.

Border Crossings: Thomas King鈥檚 Cultural Inversions.聽 Co-authored with Professor Priscilla

Walton, and Professor Arnold Davidson.聽 Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.
ASPP funded.

Selected Awards:
SSHRC Insight Grant, 2022-2027
SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2014-2017
SSHRC Research Grant, 2002-2007
SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1998-1999
Fulbright Doctoral Scholarship, 1998
SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, 1994-1998