Education

2010: PhD in English (McGill)
2001: MA in English (Saskatchewan)
1999: BA (Hon.) (Saskatchewan)

Academic Appointments

2019: Associate Professor, Memorial University
2014: Assistant Professor, Memorial University
2011: Faculty Lecturer, McGill University

Selected Publications

"The Contemporary Leonard Cohen: Response, Reappraisal, and Rediscovery", co-edited with Kait Pinder (forthcoming in November, 2023, from Wilfrid Laurier)

The American Western in Canadian Literature. University of Calgary Press, 2022.

“The Medium Is the Message Is the Metaphor: Cool Reason and the Young Intellectual Public of Marshall McLuhan.” The Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 44, 2019, pp. 49–68.

“Late Style and Automortography in Leonard Cohen’s Circle of Public Life.” Canadian Poetry, vol 82, 2018, pp. 12-31.

“‘Do I feel lucky?’: Moral Luck, Bluffing, and the Ethics of Eastwood’s Outlaw-Lawman in Coogan’s Bluff and the Dirty Harry Films.” 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.

“The Metaphor of Celebrity, Three Superheroes, and One Persona or Another.” The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 47, no. 3, 2014, pp. 571-90.

The Metaphor of Celebrity: Canadian Poetry and the Public, 1955-1980. U of Toronto P, 2013.

“Irving Layton’s Televised ‘Public Poetry’ and The Pierre Berton Show.” Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews, vol. 73, 2013, pp. 32-53.

“Celebrity and Passing in Gwendolyn MacEwen’s The T.E. Lawrence Poems.” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. 46, no. 3, 2011, pp. 531-50.

“Celebrity and the Poetic Dialogue of Irving Layton and Leonard Cohen.” Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 34, no. 2, 2009, pp. 77-105.

“Parading the Underworld of New Orleans in Ondaatje’s Coming Through Slaughter.” American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 38, no. 4, 2008, pp. 473-94.

Selected Presentations

“Distant 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.

“Genre, Parody, and Postmodernism in Luke Price’s Smokey Carmain Westerns.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English Conference. University of Regina. May 29, 2018.

“Ironies of the Western and the Public Domain in Jordan Abel’s 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’s 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.

“Listening 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.

“The West Turns North: The Western in Canadian Literature and Culture.” North-east Modern Languages Association Conference. Ryerson University. April 30-May 3, 2015.

“Irving Layton’s Broadcast Controversies: Fighting Words and The Pierre Berton Show.” Whatever Else: An Irving Layton Symposium. University of Ottawa. May 3, 2013.

“Fighting Words: Irving Layton on Radio and Television.” Public Poetics: Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics. Mount Allison University. September 22, 2012.

“Grandstanding 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.

“Religion and Celebrity in Gwendolyn MacEwen’s The T.E. Lawrence Poems.” Tools of the Sacred, Techniques of the Secular Conference. Université Libre de Bruxelles. May 6, 2010.

“Celebrity 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 Memorial University: 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