I teach courses in postcolonial literatures and literary theory, with a strong emphasis on the literatures of Canada. My book Sanctioned Ignorance: the politics of knowledge production and the teaching of the literatures of Canada will be published by the University of Alberta Press in 2012. Currently, I am serving as Faculty Development Coordinator at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta.
Until 2011 I was Director of the University of Vermont’s Canadian Studies Program and an Assistant Professor in the Department of English. Between 1996 and 2009, I also helped to run Northwest Passages, a Canadian literature online bookstore and information resource I co-founded in 1996.
If you have any questions about me or my work, please feel free to contact me.
Areas of Expertise: Comparative Canadian literature; nationalism and theories of the literary institution; the history of Canadian universities and literature departments; postcolonial literatures and literary institutions; indigenous writers from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand; distance education and the creation of online learning communities; the applications of technology in the humanities classroom, including blogging, podcasting, and multimodal composition; humanities computing; James Joyce and early 20th century fiction; intersections between literature and other arts, especially music and photography