Academic Background

Ph.D.: Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, 1999
M.A.: Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, 1991
B.A.: University of British Columbia, 1989

Research Interests: Memory; Film Theory; Art Film; Adaptation; Film and Literature; W.G. Sebald’s Prose Texts

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Biography

Publications

Books:

Cinema, Memory, Modernity: The Representation of Memory from the Art Film to Transnational Cinema. New York: Routledge, 2010

Forthcoming Edited Books, Articles, Book Chapters, etc.:

“Memory and the Flashback in Film”. Oxford Bibilographies Online: Cinema and Media Studies. Editor-in-Chief: Krin Gabbard. New York: Oxford UP, Fall 2012. www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com.

“The Question of Genre in Sebald’s Prose (Towards a Post-Memorial Literature of Restitution)”. A Literature of Restitution: Critical Essays on W.G. Sebald. Eds. Ben Hutchinson, Valerie Henitiuk, et al. Manchester: University of Manchester Press, Fall 2012.

"The Second Look, the Second Death: W. G. Sebald's Orphic Adaptation of Hitchcock's Vertigo". Clues 31.1 Spring 2013.

“‘The Obligations of Memory’: Godard’s Underworld Journeys”. The Legacies of Jean-Luc Godard. Eds. Christina Stojanova, Douglas Morrey, et al. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Spring 2013. 

The Memory Effect: The Remediation of Memory in Literature and Film. Ed. Russell J. A. Kilbourn and Eleanor Ty. WLU Press, Spring/Summer 2013.

Selected Articles/Book Chapters:

“Prosthetic Memory and Transnational Cinema: Globalized Identity and Narrative Recursivity in City of God”. Millennial Cinema: Representations of Memory in Film. Eds. Terence McSweeney et al. Wallflower Press (Columbia University Press), Winter 2012. 

“Re-writing Reality: Reading The Matrix.” Cultural Studies: An Anthology. Ed. Michael Ryan. Malden: Blackwell, 2008. 1034-1043. Reprinted from Canadian Journal of Film Studies 9: 2. (Autumn 2000): 43-54.

“Catastrophe with Spectator: Subjectivity, Intertextuality and the Representation of History in The Rings of Saturn.” W.G. Sebald and the Writing of History. Eds. Anne Fuchs and J.J. Long. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2007. 139-62.

“Kafka, Nabokov…Sebald: Intertextuality and Narratives of Redemption in Vertigo and The Emigrants.” W.G. Sebald: History – Memory – Trauma. Eds. Scott Denham and Mark R. McCulloh. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, 2006.

"The Unnamable: Denegative Dialogue." European Joyce Studies 16: "Joyce, Beckett, and the art of the Negative." Amsterdam/New York, 2005.

"American Frankenstein: Modernity’s Monstrous Progeny." Mosaic 38.3 (Sept. 2005): 167-83.

"Architecture and Cinema: The Representation of Memory in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz." W.G. Sebald: A Critical Companion. Ed. Jonathan Long. University of Edinburgh Press, 2004.  Reprinted in the U.S. and Canada by Washington University Press (2005).

"Ada in Chiasmus: Chiasmus in Ada." Journal of Nabokov Studies 5 (1998/99): 129-143
"Redemption Revalued in Tristan and Isolde: Schopenhauer, Wagner, Nietzsche." University of Toronto Quarterly 67.4 (Fall 1998) (special issue: Proceedings of "Voices of Opera: Performance, Production, Interpretation" Symposium): 781-88. Reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism 119. Ed. Russ Whitaker. The Gale Group.

"Toward a Non-Euclidean Cinema: Kieslowski and Literature." The Canadian Journal of Film Studies 6.2 (Fall 1997): 34-50.

Recent Book Reviews: 

“Markus Zisselsberger, ed., The Undiscover'd Country: W.G. Sebald and The Poetics of Travel” (review essay). English Studies in Canada 36.4 (December 2010).

“Pattern Pre-Recognition”. Richard Grusin, Premediation: Affect and Mediality in America after 9/11 (review essay). Reviews in Cultural Theory (http://www.reviewsinculture.com).