About
Canadian literature, nationalism, modernism, contemporary poetry, travel writing, digital humanities, identity politics Education
PhD, English, Queen’s University, in progress
MA, English, University of Victoria, 2009
BA (Hons.), History and English, University of Toronto, 2006 Publications
Articles:
“Nation, Ethnicity, and Canada in Laura Goodman Salverson’s The Viking Heart.” American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 46, no. 1, 2016, pp. 107-21.
“‘Off to one side of the curve’: Perpetual Expedition and Regional Identity in M. Wylie Blanchet’s The Curve of Time.” Studies in Canadian Literature, vol. 38, no. 1, 2013, pp. 50-68.
“Ondaatje’s Aesthetics of Efficiency: Modernity, Time, and the Body in the Early Ontario Poems.” Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews, no. 70, 2012, pp. 77-92.
Book reviews:
Review of Dreamland Theatre, by Rob Budde. The Bull Calf, vol. 6, no. 2, 2016.
Review of Cretacea and Other Stories from the Badlands, by Martin West. The Winnipeg Review, no. 24, 2016.
“Questionable Concepts.” Review of The Properties, by Colin Browne, Abecedarium, by Dennis Cooley, and Their Biography, by Kevin McPherson Eckhoff. Canadian Literature, no. 226, 2016, pp. 128-30.
Review of From Up River and for One Night Only, by Brett Josef Grubisic. The Winnipeg Review, no. 23, 2016.
“Being Bernstein.” Review of Burn Book, by Felix Bernstein. Partisan, 2 Feb. 2016.
Review of Love Enough, by Dionne Brand. The Bull Calf, vol. 5, no. 2, 2015.
Review of The Farm Novel in North America: Genre and Nation in the United States, English Canada, and French Canada, 1845-1945, by Florian Freitag. The Dalhousie Review, vol. 95, no. 1, 2015, pp. 133-35.
Review of Birds, Metals, Stones & Rain, by Russell Thornton. Contemporary Verse 2, vol. 37, no. 2, 2014, pp. 85-86.
Poetry:
“A Guide to College-Town Living.” The Antigonish Review, no. 186, 2016, p. 93.
“M1,” “M2,” and “Status.” illiterature, no. 6, 2016, pp. 24-25, 37.
“Train Ride” and “Space Stations.” The Mackinac, no. 9, 2016.
“John Cage’s Satellite Sketches” and “Space Phases.” PALEBLUE, edited by Lindsay Cahill, Standard Form, 2015, p. 43.
“December on the Estate.” The Dalhousie Review, vol. 94, no. 1, 2014, p. 109.
“Millennials.” Grain, vol. 41, no. 1, 2013, p. 24.
“Rust Farm” and “Lou Dobbs.” Contemporary Verse 2, vol. 36, no. 2, 2013, pp. 57-58. “Lou Dobbs” reprinted in The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2014, edited by Sonnet L’Abbé, Molly Peacock, and Anita Lahey, Tightrope, 2014, p. 103.
