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.