Articles & Reprints
“Reading Evangeline and What is Left the Daughter: Tracing American Projections of Grief Across the Forty-Ninth Parallel.” Comparative American Studies 18 (2021). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14775700.2021.2008749.
“The Missionary Position: The American Roots of Northrop Frye’s Peaceable Kingdom.” The Journal of Canadian Studies 52.2 (2018): 361-380.
“Escape to Canada: Richard Ford’s Fugitive Novel.” Canadian Review of American Studies 48.1 (2018): 38-62.
“Indigenous Women’s Poetry in Canada: Erotic Transformations.” Native American Indian Studies 2.2 (2015): 134-156.
“Reading The Bricklin: Narrating the Place of Dreaming in an Era of Self-Sufficiency.” The Journal of New Brunswick Studies 4 (2013): 31-46.
“Re-reading Photographs Through Defamiliarizing the Aboriginal.” Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 23-24 (2010): 415-423.
“Revisioning Fredericton: Reading George Elliott Clarke’s Execution Poems.” Guest edited by Herb Wyile and Jeanette Lynes. Studies in Canadian Literature 33.2 (2008): 115-132. Reprinted in Africadian Atlantic: Essays on George Elliott Clarke. Ed. Joseph Pivato. Toronto: Guernica. 23-50. Also reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC-276) by Gage as entry #805186 in 2009.
“Rethinking Canadian and American Nationality: Indigeneity and the 49th Parallel in Thomas King.” Co-authored with Professor Priscilla Walton. American Literary History 18.3 (2006): 600-617.
“Reading Risk in The Navigator of New York.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature 40.1 (2005): 37-56.
“A Different Kind of Reality: Reading the Humor of Caroline Kirkland’s A New Home, Who’ll Follow?.” Studies in American Humor 3.10 (2003): 5-20.
“Humour and Irony, Métis Style: Reading the Poetry of Marilyn Dumont and Gregory Scofield.” Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 50 (2002): 6-31.
“Reading Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water: Border-Crossing Humour.” English Studies in Canada 28.1 (2002): 91-116.
“Native Canadian Gothic Refigured: Reading Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach.” Essays on
Canadian Writing 72 (2001): 1-24. Selected for inclusion (in a substantially revised version) in Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic. Eds. Cynthia Sugars and Gerry Turcotte. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier UP, 2009. 205-227.
“Humoring the Border at the end of the Millennium: Constructing an English-Canadian Humour Tradition for the Twentieth Century and Beyond.” Essays on Canadian Writing 71 (2000): 140-149. Selected to be reprinted in Panstwo-Narod-Tozsamosc W Dyskursach Kulturowych Kanady. Eds. Eugenia Sojka and Miroslawa Buchholtz. Krakow: Towarzystwo Autorow I Wydawcow Prac Naukowych, 2010. 418-427.
“In the Belly of a Laughing God: Reading Humor and Irony in the Poetry of Joy Harjo.” American Indian Quarterly 24.2 (2000): 200-218. Reprinted in Native American Writing. Ed. A. Robert Lee. Volume 4, Part 9 on “Native American Poetry.” New York: Routledge, 2011.
“Reading Toni Morrison’s Jazz: Rewriting the Tall Tale and Playing with the Trickster in the American and African-American Humour Traditions.” The Canadian Review of American Studies 29.1 (1999): 87-107.
“Rethinking the Relevance of Magic Realism for English-Canadian Literature: Reading AnnMarie MacDonald’s Fall On Your Knees.” Studies in Canadian Literature 24.1 (1999): 1-20.
“A Preliminary History: The House of Anansi Press.” Textual Studies in Canada 10/11 (1998): 55-68.
“Framing The Book of Jessica: Transformation and the Collaborative Process in Canadian Theatre.” English Studies in Canada 22.3 (1996): 297-313.