About
My examination of the use of chivalric medieval romance in twentieth century war literature is an engagement with the mythic proposition that all the values of pre-war British society were rejected by the post-war generation. The goal of some representative twentieth-century writers was not to show that the past was remote and useless: they tried to demonstrate that if the past seemed remote as a result of the war, it was certainly not useless. My study includes close readings of Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Rebecca West, David Jones and Dorothy L. Sayers. These writers used medieval pasts in defamiliarized ways in order to form new understanding of communal ethics, visionary social schemata that rescued chivalric terminology from the clutches of patriarchal propaganda. Education
2013-present Ph.D. in English, University of Toronto
Dissertation:“Recovering Communal Ethics: The Defamiliarization of Medieval Romance in Interwar Literature, 1914-1939”
Committee: Richard Greene (supervisor), Melba Cuddy-Keane, Christine Bolus-Reichert.
Special Field and Comprehensive Exams
Special Field: War, Religion, and Gender in Modern Literature, 1880-1950
Comprehensive Exam Paper I: Old English to Restoration
Comprehensive Exam Paper II: Restoration to Twentieth Century
2011-2013 M.A. in English, University of Ottawa
Thesis:“Bridging the Past and the Present: The Historical Imagination in the Criticism and the Narrative Poetry of C. S. Lewis.”Supervisor: Dr. Dominic Manganiello. Examiners: Dr. Keith Wilson, Dr. Donald Childs.
2007-2011 B.A. Honours in English, University of Saskatchewan
Publications
“From Egalitarian to Sacramental Community: Rewriting William Morris’s Social Romance in David Jones’s In Parenthesis.”David Jones: Towards a Theology of History, ed. Anna Svendsen and Jasmine Hunter Evans, Religion and Literature, Vol. 49, No. 1, Spring 2017, pp. 93-101.
Memberships
MLA, MSA, David Jones Society, ACCUTE
