Academic Background

Ph.D. English Literature, University of Western Ontario

M.A. English Literature, University of Victoria

B.A. English Literature, University of Victoria

Biography

I grew up in British Columbia, and completed my undergraduate and master's degrees in English literature at the University of Victoria. After completing my Ph.D. in English at the University of Western Ontario, I held positions at a variety of post-secondary institutions, including Trent University, Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, and Red Deer College, before arriving at Laurier Brantford.  

Additional Information

Publications:

"'Some trick of the moonlight': Seduction and the Moving Image in Bram Stoker's Dracula." Victorian Literature and Culture 40.2 (2012): 523-47.

"Wilkie Collins and Risk." Blackwell Companion to Sensation Fiction. Ed. Pamela K. Gilbert. (2011)

"Railway Fatigue and the Coming-of-Age Narrative in Lady Audley's Secret." Victorian Review 34.1 (2008): 131-53.

"Ghostly Foundations: Multicultural Space and Vancouver's Chinatown in Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe." Studies in Canadian Literature 29.1 (2004): 85-105. 

Review of Amy G. Richter's Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity. Victorian Review 33.1 (2007): 141-43.