About
I’m a recent graduate of the Communication and Culture PhD program at Ryerson University, where I now teach in the English department and lead the Yellow Nineties Personography Project at the Ryerson Centre for Digital Humanities. I specialize in late-Victorian print media. Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Communication and Culture, Ryerson University
Supervisor: Dr. Lorraine Janzen-Kooistra
Dissertation: Popular Materials: Late-Victorian Illustrated Magazines and the Technological Imagination
Master of Arts, English, University of Victoria
Supervisor: Dr. Lisa Surridge
Essay: “’There is nothing . . . stronger than a mother’: The New Woman and Population Politics in Emma Frances Brooke’s A Superfluous Woman (1894)”
Bachelor of Arts, English, St. Mary’s University
Graduated summa cum laude Publications
Refereed
“Advertisements, Hyper-Reading, and Fin-de-Siècle Consumer Culture in the
Illustrated London News and
The Graphic.”
Victorian Periodicals Review. (Forthcoming; subject to revisions)
“Prototyping Personography in
The Yellow Nineties Online: Queering and Querying History in the Digital Age.” Primary author with Lorraine Janzen Kooistra.
Bodies of Information: Feminist Debates in Digital Humanities, edited by Jaqueline Wernimont and Elizabeth Losh, Minnesota UP, 2018.
“Teaching and Learning Multimodal Communications: A Collaborative Book.” Secondary author with Alyssa Arbuckle et al.
International Journal of Learning and Media. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press 4.1 (Winter 2012).
Non-refereed
“
Speaking the Languages of Digital Scholarship: Translating Data for the Yellow Nineties Personography.” Digital Scholarship Ontario, Fall 2016.
“’A magic web with colours gay’: Literary meaning-making and the textile analogy.”
The Attic, St. Mary’s University, Vol. 1 (Fall 2011).
Work in progress
“The Commercial History of an Illustrated Periodical: Articles on Production in Victorian Pictorial Journalism.”
Victorian Review. (Submitted for initial review)
“Data Visualization and Population Politics in
Pearson’s Magazine, 1896-1902.”
Journal of Victorian Culture. (Submitted for initial review)
Upcoming Talks and Conferences
“At the Border Between Consumption and Production: ‘Curiosities’ in The Strand Magazine, 1896-1917.” RSVP July 2017, Freiburg.
