Supervision

PhD Thesis

Co-supervisor, Imane Ghebache, Shapeshifting Superheroes: The Dual Identity of Anti-Heroes in the Dark Age of Comics, Department de Langues, litteratures, cultures, civilisations, (Université de Montpellier, 2024- ).

Co-Supervisor, Melika Sefidary, Building a Gender-based Identity Theory for Iranian Women Based on the Narrative Analysis of Iranian Plays, Interdisciplinary PhD (Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2023 - ).

Supervisor, Mohamed Salah Eddine Madiou, Painting World War Two through Keith Douglas’s Texts and Images, Department of English (Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2022 - 2025).

Supervisor, Elizabeth Pfeiffer, Ink and Introspection: Comics Journalists and the Meta-work of Illustrated Reporting, Department of English (Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2022 - )

Supervisor, Mend the Gap: Visual Writerly Strategies, the Missing Piece of Reader Engagement in Comics. Lauranne Poharec, Department of English (Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2021)

Supervisor, Challenging Representations: Creating Counter-Narratives of Mental Illness in Comics, Irene Velentzas, Department of English (Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2016 - 2021; 2025)

  • Current position: Comics Editor at Conundrum Press

Supervisor, The Hyphen: Foodways as a Metaphorical Language in Canadian Immigrant Literature. Francesca Boschetti, Department of English (Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2021)

Co-advisor (with Prof. Mieke Bal and Dr. Esther Peeren), History by Proxy: Imaging the Great Irish Famine, Niamh Ann Kelly, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. (University of Amsterdam, 2003-2010)

  • Current position: Programme chair, BA in Visual and Critical Studies. Dublin Institute of Technology.

 

MA Thesis

Supervisor “Surveillance, Social Order, and Gendered Subversions in Batman Comics, 1986-2011.” Aidan Diamond, Department of English (Memorial University of Newfoundland, (2015 - 2017).

  • Current position: PhD Candidate, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture, University of Southern California.

MPhil Thesis

Supervisor, "Love's Protest: Collected Essays on Historiography." Laura Moncion, MPhil Programme in the Humanities. (Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2015 - 2016)

Supervisor, “Failures of Representation: Queer Realism in Contemporary Autobiographical Cinema.” Jonathan Petrychyn, MPhil Programme in the Humanities. (Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2012-2014)

  • Current position: Postdoctoral fellow (University of Waterloo)

Supervisor, “Reading between the Bylines: Portrayals of Truth in Western Print Journalism.” Denise Flint, MPhil Programme in the Humanities. (Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2008-2010)

  • Current position: Writer, journalist, editor

Supervisor, "Unfocused Snapshots." Jeremy Rose, MPhil Programme in the Humanities. (Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2005-2007)

  • Current position: Partner at Daybright Solutions (Marketing Consultant, Web Design, Web Development)

Honours Essay

Supervisor, “The Art of Advocacy: Examining Graphic Illness Comics as Tools for Patient Empowerment.” Alexandra Bowes, English (Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2024)

Supervisor, “Objectivism, Alan Moore, and Steve Ditko.” Samuel Dinn, English (Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2022)

Supervisor, “Data and the Image: COVID-19 Information and Graphical Communication through Comics.” Sierra Walker, English (Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2021)

Supervisor, “Ladies and Gentlemen! You’ve read about it in the Newspapers! Now, shutter as you observe, before your very eyes, that most rare and tragic of nature’s mistakes! I give you …” The Female Body!: An Analysis of Female Characters in Batman: The Killing Joke.” Melissa Wong, English (Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2016)

Supervisor, “The Symbolic Narrative of Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth Dismantles the Central Tenets of the Modern Batman Canon.” Thomas Luke, English (Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2015)

Supervisor, “Mind the Gap: Mapping around Performativity in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home.” Jamie Harnum-Davidson, English (Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2013)

  • Current position: MA Student, Women and Gender Studies (York University).

Supervisor, "Victims or Visionaries? An Examination of the Heroines of Harlequin and the Roles of Women in the Late 20th Century." Katilyn Baker, English (Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2009).

  • Current position: owner / operator of an online Etsy shop; contributor for The Current; substitute librarian, Newfoundland Public Libraries Association (Churchill Falls).

Supervisor, "The Trouble with Stories: The Intersection of Storytelling with History and Identity in Thomas Kings' Green Grass, Running Water and Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach." Danielle Yetman, English (Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2007)

  • Current position: Promotion Officer III for Parks Canada