I am a full-time writer, editor, and researcher living in Waterloo, Ontario, a part-time faculty member at Wilfrid Laurier University (Brantford campus), as well as Director of the L.M. Montgomery Research Group. I received my Ph.D. in 2006 from McMaster University, where I wrote a dissertation on ideology and child protagonists in twentieth-century Canadian fiction in English. My research and teaching interests include children’s literature and culture, twentieth-century Canadian literature, gender and sexuality studies, television studies, scholarly editing, and the archive.
I recently edited L.M. Montgomery’s rediscovered final book, The Blythes Are Quoted (2009), co-edited (with Irene Gammel) the collection of essays Anne’s World: A New Century of Anne of Green Gables (2010), and co-edited (with Andrea McKenzie) a restored edition of Montgomery’s First World War novel, Rilla of Ingleside (2010). I have also contributed a number of book chapters, journal articles, introductions, editorials, afterwords, essays, encyclopedia entries, and reviews on a range of aspects of North American literatures and cultures.
I also have a profile on Academia.edu. You can also follow me on Twitter.
26 October 2010: A new, restored edition of L.M. Montgomery’s First World War novel, Rilla of Ingleside, which I edited in collaboration with Andrea McKenzie, is now available from Viking Canada, as is a paperback edition of The Blythes Are Quoted from Penguin Canada.
29 June 2010: Three calls for papers have now been posted: for L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature (collection of essays), L.M. Montgomery and Cultural Memory (conference, 21–24 June 2012), and L.M. Montgomery and War (conference, 26–29 June 2014).
