Brief CV
Education
2010: PhD in English (McGill)
2001: MA in English (Saskatchewan)
1999: BA (Hon.) (Saskatchewan)
Academic Appointments
2019: Associate Professor, 91亚色
2014: Assistant Professor, 91亚色
2011: Faculty Lecturer, McGill University
Selected Publications
, co-edited with Kait Pinder (forthcoming in November, 2023, from Wilfrid Laurier)
University of Calgary Press, 2022.
淭he Medium Is the Message Is the Metaphor: Cool Reason and the Young Intellectual Public of Marshall McLuhan.&苍产蝉辫;The Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 44, 2019, pp. 4968.
淟ate Style and Automortography in Leonard Cohen檚 Circle of Public Life.&苍产蝉辫;Canadian Poetry, vol 82, 2018, pp. 12-31.
湗Do I feel lucky?: Moral Luck, Bluffing, and the Ethics of Eastwood檚 Outlaw-Lawman in Coogan檚 Bluff and the Dirty Harry Films.&苍产蝉辫;Film-Philosophy, vol. 21, no. 1, 2017, pp. 20-36.
"Tom King's John Wayne: The Western in Green Grass, Running Water." Canadian Literature, vol. 225, 2016, pp. 66-80.
"Anthology on the Radio: Robert Weaver and CBC Radio's Anthology." Anthologizing Canadian Literature: Theoretical and Cultural Perspectives. Ed. Robert Lecker. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2015.
淭he Metaphor of Celebrity, Three Superheroes, and One Persona or Another.&苍产蝉辫;The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 47, no. 3, 2014, pp. 571-90.
. U of Toronto P, 2013.
淚rving Layton檚 Televised 楶ublic Poetry and The Pierre Berton Show.&苍产蝉辫;Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews, vol. 73, 2013, pp. 32-53.
淐elebrity and Passing in Gwendolyn MacEwen檚 The T.E. Lawrence Poems.&苍产蝉辫;The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. 46, no. 3, 2011, pp. 531-50.
淐elebrity and the Poetic Dialogue of Irving Layton and Leonard Cohen.&苍产蝉辫;Studies in Canadian Literature / 脡tudes en litt茅rature canadienne, vol. 34, no. 2, 2009, pp. 77-105.
淧arading the Underworld of New Orleans in Ondaatje檚 Coming Through Slaughter.&苍产蝉辫;American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 38, no. 4, 2008, pp. 473-94.
Selected Presentations
淒istant Reading and the Range in the Genre of the Canadian Western. The Canadian Society for Digital Humanities Conference. University of British Columbia. June 3, 2019.
淕enre, Parody, and Postmodernism in Luke Price檚 Smokey Carmain Westerns. Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English Conference. University of Regina. May 29, 2018.
淚ronies of the Western and the Public Domain in Jordan Abel檚 Un/inhabited and Injun. Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English Conference / Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Ryerson University. May 28, 2017.
"The Western Genre and Adventures for Boys in H.A. Cody檚 Rod of the Lone Patrol." Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English Conference / Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. University of Calgary. May 29, 2016.
淟istening to the Unscripted: Irving Layton as a Voice for the Archives. CanLit across Media: Unarchiving the Temporal Literary Event. Concordia University. Montreal. June 6, 2015.
淭he West Turns North: The Western in Canadian Literature and Culture. North-east Modern Languages Association Conference. Ryerson University. April 30-May 3, 2015.
淚rving Layton檚 Broadcast Controversies: Fighting Words and The Pierre Berton Show. Whatever Else: An Irving Layton Symposium. University of Ottawa. May 3, 2013.
淔ighting Words: Irving Layton on Radio and Television. Public Poetics: Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics. Mount Allison University. September 22, 2012.
淕randstanding in Canadian Poetry. Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English Conference / Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo. May 28, 2012.
淩eligion and Celebrity in Gwendolyn MacEwen檚 The T.E. Lawrence Poems. Tools of the Sacred, Techniques of the Secular Conference. Universit茅 Libre de Bruxelles. May 6, 2010.
淐elebrity without Progeny? The Poetic Dialogue of Irving Layton and Leonard Cohen. North-east Modern Language Association Conference. Boston University. February 27, 2009.
Teaching
2014-21 at 91亚色: Critical Reading and Writing, Modern Canadian Fiction, Canadian Literature 1970 to the Present, The Western, Public Intellectuals in Canada, Contemporary Theory and Practice, Style in Literature, What Is Film?
2007-12 at McGill University: Canadian Literature, Westerns and the West, American Literature, Studies in a Canadian Author: Margaret Atwood, Poetics, Introduction to Film as Mass Medium