About

I am a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, where I am tracing the cultural capital of Canadian author L.M. Montgomery. 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. My teaching and research interests include twentieth- and twenty-first Canadian literature and culture, literary and media texts for young people, critical theories of gender, race, and sexuality, film and television genre studies, the archive as a site of knowledge, and the role of popular culture in the shaping of ideology.

Academic Positions and Appointments

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta (2007-)

Research Associate, Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre, Ryerson University (2007-)

Visiting Scholar, Department of English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University (2007-)

Research Associate, Centre for Research in Young People’s Texts and Cultures, University of Winnipeg (2006-)

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

Degrees

Doctor of Philosophy, English, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (2002-2006)

Area examinations 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, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta)

Master of Arts, English, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada (1999-2001)

Bachelor of Arts, English Literature (Honours) and Religion (Minor), Concordia University, Montreal, Québec, Canada (1996-1999)

Diplôme d’études collégiales, Creative Arts, Champlain Regional College, Lennoxville, Québec, Canada (1994-1996)

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