I am the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and a Professor of English at Dalhousie University.

My teaching interests include Canadian and American literature in English, Indigenous literatures of Turtle Island, literary theory, and cultural studies. My research ranges from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries and is primarily informed by shifting nation-state relations between Canada and the United States. I’m most interested in how cross-border relationships have shaped literary and cultural studies in both Canada and the US.

I have served in the past as President of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (2018-2020) and Chair of the Department of English at the University of New Brunswick (2013-2016).

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