Supervision

PhD Thesis

Supervisor, Care Power: Images of Medical Authority in Gender Nonconforming Graphic Memoirs, Luciana Dos Santos, Department of Enlgish and Commmunication and Media Studies (Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2025 - )

Co-Supervisor,Embodied Subjectivity and Focalization in Iranian Women's Life Writing,  Melika Sefidary, Interdisciplinary PhD (Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2023 - ).

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

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

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, Dissociating the Self: Representations of Mental Illness in Graphic Memoir, Irene Velentzas, Department of English (Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2016 - 2021; 2025)

  • Current position: Comics Editor at Conundrum Press; founder and editor of Tunnel Vision 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 Feeling of Being Lost': Trauma and Quinn's Search for Meaning in City of Glass: The Graphic Novel." English, Taylor Peddle (Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2026)

Supervisor, "Countering Images of Black American Identity in YA Novels." Zoe Breakspear (Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2026)

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