Faculty

I specialize in British and Irish modernism, contemporary literature, affect studies, and the environmental humanities. I regularly teach C20 and C21 British and Irish literature, modernism, science fiction, climate change and literature, introductory literary courses, and academic writing at UFV. 
 
I obtained my MA and PhD from the University of Victoria. My first introduction to modernist studies was Samuel Beckett's Molloy. Completely intrigued by Beckett's works, I began to look for more modernist novels and soon realized how much I loved reading them. 

MA and PhD (University of Victoria)

MSA (Modernist Studies Association)
MLA (Modern Language Association)

Teaching Interests:

20th-century British and Irish literature, modernism, environmental humanities, critical methods, science fiction, introduction to literature, and academic writing.

Courses Taught:

ENGL 341 Topics in Contemporary British and Irish Studies 
ENGL 340 British and Irish Poetry Since 1930
ENGL 339 British and Irish Fiction Since 1930
ENGL 338 Studies in Modernism 
ENGL 200 Introduction to Literary Critical Methods 
ENGL 170 Special Topics (Contemporary Science Fiction; Climate Change and Literature; Petrofiction: Contemporary Lit)
ENGL 108 Introduction to Literature
ENGL 105 Academic Writing 

20th-century British and Irish literature, modernism, environmental humanities, theories of formalism.

"Slaughterhouse 1933: Migration of Style, Labor, and Restricted Futurity," MSA 2022 Portland (“Migration – Labor – Innovation” seminar; participated online due to travel restrictions) 

"Aesthetic Infrastructure and Interwar Energy Regimes," seminar paper at MSA 2022 Spring Virtual conference (“Modernist Emo” seminar)

• “The Gothic Riverdale: Queer ‘Baiting,’ Seduction, and Sacrifice” (revision submitted and accepted in spring 2023)
  
  
• “Modernism, Critical Theory, and Affect Theory Avant La Lettre,” in Modernism, Theory and Responsible Reading: A Critical Conversation (Bloomsbury 2021).

• “Atmospheric Violence: Samuel Beckett’s Aesthetics of Respiration.” LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, vol. 30, no. 2, 2019, pp. 103–119.

• “The Politics of Naming.” Modernism/modernity print plus, 7 February 2019.

• MSA 2019 Toronto Conference Review, with Aoiffe Walsh, Farah Nada, and Sean A. McPhail, The Modernist Review.

• “Zhou Zuoren (周作人) (1885–1967).” The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Taylor and Francis, 2016.

• “Fei Ming (废名) (1901–1967).” The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Taylor and Francis, 2016.

• “A Meditation on Earworms and Breath Sounds.” Phono-Fictions and Other Felt Thoughts. Edited by David Cecchetto, Noxious Sector Press, 2016, pp. 143–62.

• “Beckett, Samuel (1906–89).” The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Taylor and Francis, 2016.