Welcome

I am an Associate Professor of English at York University, Glendon campus. My areas of research are late twentieth and twenty-first century Canadian & Québécois literature. I am specifically interested in feminist writing, autofiction/autotheory/confession, and language/social politics. I have published in numerous academic journals as well as in a variety of popular magazines. 

I recently completed two book projects. My monograph, Evasive Manoeuvres (McGill-Queen’s UP), looks at Canadian women writers' ambivalent engagement with the confessional mode. It was featured as part of the Author Talks series at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers cinema in Toronto, and an excerpt recently appeared in The Walrus. Shelter in Text (co-edited with Kasia van Schaik, U of Alberta Press) examines how writing can create, illuminate, and complicate ideas about dwelling, belonging, or finding safe harbour. It was featured in a CBC list of “45 Canadian non-fiction books to read this fall” and as part of Toronto Lit Up’s fall launch series.

Please see my CV for more information about my research, teaching, and academic involvement.

My Academia.edu profile can be found here. My YorkU profile is here.

Below is the keynote lecture I gave in Fall 2024 as the Eakin Fellow at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, as well as a panel on new books in Canadian Literature where I talk about Evasive Manoeuvres.