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 language/social politics, confessional discourse, and avant-garde poetics. I have published in numerous academic journals as well as in a variety of popular magazines. 

I have recently completed two book projects. My monograph, Evasive Maneuvers (in peer review), looks at Canadian women writers' ambivalent engagement with the confessional mode. Shelter in Text (co-edited with Kasia van Schaik, forthcoming with U of Alberta Press in October 2025) examines how writing can create, illuminate, and complicate ideas about dwelling, belonging, or finding safe harbour.

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

My Academia.edu profile can be found here.

Here is the keynote lecture I gave in Fall 2024 as the Eakin Fellow at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada: