I examine the proliferation of the concept of the vortex in the decadent fiction of M. P. Shiel in relation to fiction’s ability and inability to represent human consciousness and its limits. I think through the way that Shiel’s fascination with Edgar Allan Poe influenced his literary vortexes, the significance of Shiel’s fiction in relation to…[Read more]

Building on foundational research about the historical and intellectual roots of the digital research commons (Winter et al. 2020), this paper examines the Canadian HSS Commons from a DH perspective, focusing on how it will meet the needs of Canadian researchers working within the highly collaborative, methodologically diverse, and exploratory…[Read more]

A syllabus for a 300-level (3rd year) literature course

A Selection for College Students. Includes introduction, brief biographical sketch, and a selection of the most frequently studied poems of Charlotte Smith, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Emily Brontë,…[Read more]