I am a full-time writer, editor, and researcher living in Waterloo, Ontario (Canada), as well as Visiting Scholar at the L.M. Montgomery Institute (University of Prince Edward Island) and 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 interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century Canadian literature and culture, print and media texts for young people, life writing and autobiography, film and television studies, digital humanities, the archive, cultural citizenship, and cultural memory.
I recently edited L.M. Montgomery’s rediscovered final book, The Blythes Are Quoted (2009), and co-edited (with Irene Gammel) the collection of essays Anne’s World: A New Century of Anne of Green Gables (2010). I have also contributed a number of book chapters, journal articles, essays, and reviews on a range of aspects of Canadian literature and culture.
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).
29 June 2010: The Blythes Are Quoted will be released in paperback by Penguin Canada in October 2010! Finnish and Japanese translations will also be published this fall.
