Research Interests
- Canadian literature
- English Romanticism, especially Wordsworth, Byron, and Shelley
- Nineteenth-century American literature, especially Poe
Selected Publications
- “Momentous Shifts and Unimagined Changes in ‘Jakarta.’†Alice Munro: Critical Essays. Ed. Janice Fiamengo and Gerald Lynch. Forthcoming from U of Ottawa P.
- “Teaching and Conflict in Munro from ‘The Day of the Butterfly’ to ‘Comfort.’†Alice Munro: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage; Runaway; Dear Life. Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction. Ed. Robert Thacker. London: Bloomsbury, 2016. 44-64.
- “Cosmopolitan Nationalism: Canadian Literature of the Confederation Period, 1867-1914.†Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature. Ed. Cynthia Sugars. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2015. 295-313.
- “Wordsworth’s Canadian Ministries.†Journal of Canadian Studies 47.1 (2013).
Awards and Recognition
W.J. Barnes Teaching Award (1997)
