Background

Education

PhD in English Language and Literature (Queen’s University, June 2016)

Master’s Degree in English Language and Literature (University of Waterloo, 2011)

B.A.H. in English Literature (Queen’s University, 2010)

Courses Taught

GNDS 335: Science Fiction and Fantasy (Queen’s University, Gender Studies Department, Winter 2020)

CINT 902: Disability Issues (Toronto Metropolitan University, Chang School, Winter 2021)

CINT 921: Writing for Disability Activism (Toronto MetropolitanUniversity, Chang School, Fall 2020)

DST 525: Disability, Representations and Culture (Toronto MetropolitanUniversity, School of Disability Studies, Summer 2019, Summer 2018)

ENGL 223: Women Writers of the Twentieth Century (Queen’s University, Winter 2019)

ENGL 375: American Literature (Queen’s University, Winter 2018)

ENGL 360: Modernism (Queen’s University, 2016-2017)

ENGL 446: New York City in the Gilded Age - Extravagance and Corruption (Queen’s University, Winter 2017)

ENGL 487: Science Fictional Worlds (Queen’s University, Fall 2016)

ENGL 234: The Short Story in English - The Art of Detective Fiction (Queen’s University, Fall 2015)

Awards and Honours

  • Canada Council of the Arts Grant (2022)

  • CBC Short Fiction Literary Prize Long List (2016)

  • Nominated: W.J. Barnes Excellence in Teaching Award (Queen’s University, Faculty of Arts and Science, 2016-2017)

  • Nominated: A.C. Hamilton Prize (awarded annually to the best doctoral dissertation in the Department of English, Queen’s University, 2016)

Publications and Papers

  • “(Un)ruled and (Un)bounded: The Kingdom of ‘I’ in Tom Parkinson-Morgan’s Kill 6 Billion Demons” (presented November 2021, PAMLA 2021 Conference, Graphic Novels panel, Las Vegas.

  • “To Create a Sensation: Writing Real Murder into Fiction” (presented October 2021, NEPCA 2021 Conference, Online)

  • “‘We too emerge from this magic’: Representations of Disability Identity and Justice in the Immersive Narrative Development of Ninja Theory’s Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice” (presented June 2021, International Conference on Games and Narrative 2021, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario)

  • “The Monster Feels My Tiny Little Movements Inside: Motherhood and the Boundaries of Space in Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ and Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House” (presented May 2021, PopMeC Research 50+ Shades of Gothic Conference: The Gothic Across Genre and Media in US Popular Culture, Online)

  • “‘Dead Men are Heavier than Broken Hearts’: The Corpse and the Object of the Plot in American Hardboiled Detective Fiction” (presented February 28, 2017, Queen’s University English Department Speakers Series)

  • “Seven Ravens.” Phoenix: An Anthology from the 2015 WCDR Short Fiction Competition, as Selected by Alissa York. Toronto: Piquant Press, 2016. Print. [Long-listed].

  •  “Tungsten Burning.” CBC Short Fiction Literary Prize Long List 2016. 

  •  “HIDE.” Renaissance: An Anthology from the 2014 WCDR Short Fiction Competition, as Selected by Sarah Selecky. Toronto: Piquant Press, 2014. 95-102. Print. [Long-listed].

  • “The Cricket Bottle: An Excerpt.”  Diaspora Dialogues: Shorthand Youth Zine, Nov. 2013. Web.   

  • “What is ‘Literary’ Writing?” Word Weaver, 13.3 (September/October 2013): 3. Writers’ Community of Durham Region.  Print.

Editing Experience

Mercer-MacKay Digital Storytelling Services (2021-present)

Editor-in-Chief, The Lamp Literary Journal for Graduate and Professional Students (2011-2015)

Editor-in-Chief, The Boar Literary Magazine, University of Waterloo (2010-2011)

Editor-in-Chief, The Undergraduate Review, Queen’s University (2007-2010)