About Me

I am currently a Leverhulme Visiting Fellow at the International Centre for Research in Children’s Literature, Literacy, and Creativity at the University of Worcester, where I am studying cultural industries for young people in Canada, the U.S., and Britain, and a Visiting Scholar at the L.M. Montgomery Institute at the University of Prince Edward Island. I completed my Ph.D. in English at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, where I wrote on ideology and child protagonists in twentieth-century Canadian literature in English, as well as a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, on the cultural capital of Canadian author L.M. Montgomery. My teaching and research interests include twentieth- and twenty-first Canadian literature and culture, Canadian and American literary and media texts for young people, life writing and autobiography, gender and sexuality studies, film and television genre studies, discourses of cultural citizenship and cultural memory, the archive as a site of knowledge, and the role of popular culture in the shaping of ideology.

Employment & Affiliations

Leverhulme Visiting Fellow, International Centre for Research in Children’s Literature, Literacy, and Creativity, University of Worcester (UK), August 2009 to May 2010. (News item)

Visiting Scholar, L.M. Montgomery Institute, University of Prince Edward Island, July 2009 to June 2010. (News item)

Research Associate, Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre, Ryerson University, December 2007 to Present. (Profile)

Visiting Scholar, Department of English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, October 2007 to August 2009.

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, August 2007 to July 2009.

Research Associate, Centre for Research in Young People’s Texts and Cultures, University of Winnipeg, August 2006 to Present. (Profile)

Assistant Professor (Limited-Term Appointment), Department of English, University of Winnipeg, August 2006 to July 2007.

Degrees

Ph.D., English, McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario), September 2002 to September 2006.

Comprehensive exams in Critical Theory and Canadian Literature.

Dissertation: “Ambivalence, Belonging, Citizenship: Ideology and the Represented Child in Twentieth-Century Canadian Fiction in English.” Supervisor: Dr. Lorraine York. External examiner: Dr. Cecily Devereux.

M.A., English, University of Guelph (Guelph, Ontario), September 1999 to September 2001.

B.A., English Literature (Honours) and Religion (Minor), Concordia University (Montreal, Québec), September 1996 to August 1999.

Diplôme d’études collégiales, Creative Arts, Champlain Regional College (Lennoxville, Québec), August 1994 to May 1996.