Invited Lectures & Plenary Responses

“Misinformation, Disinformation and Gun Violence in Canada.” Presented at the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English as part of an English Studies in Canada panel on misinformation and disinformation. Montreal, May 13, 2022.

“German Internment Camps and Archival Treasures in the Maritimes: Another Untold Story in P.S. Duffy’s The Cartographer of No Man’s Land.” The Canadian-American Center. University of Orono, Maine, 18 November 2021. Virtual invited talk.

“Sanctioned Ignorance: Academia & Families.”  ACCUTE Committee for Professional Concerns Panel on Academia & Families.  Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English.  Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, 31 May, 2017. 

Roundtable participant.  “Critical Challenges and the Changing Academy: A Roundtable for Herb Wyile.”  Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures.  Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, 27 May, 2017.  

“What Comes After the Picket Line?: A Year Later.”  ACCUTE Committee for Professional Concerns Panel on Striking. Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English.  University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, 31 May, 2015. 

Roundtable participant.  Culture and the Canada-US Border Symposium.  Kent University.  Paris, France, 16 May, 2015.  

“Reading Evangeline and What is Left the Daughter: Tracing American Projections of Grief Across the Forty-Ninth Parallel.”  Culture and the Canada-US Border Symposium.  Kent University.  Paris, France, 15 May, 2015.    

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Plenary respondent (along with Professor Peter Schwenger) to Faye Hammill’s keynote lecture on “Sophistication” at the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English.  Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, 26 May, 2014. 

Plenary Speaker for the UNB English Graduate Student Association Conference, “Question the Answers: Explorations of Genre and Textuality.”  Fredericton, New Brunswick, 26 September, 2008. 

“Rethinking Borders: Reading Thomas King and the 49th Parallel.”  American Indian Studies Program.  University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.  Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 27 March, 2003.   

“Humoring the Border: Examining the Forty-Ninth Parallel and the English-Canadian Humor Tradition at the End of the Millennium.”  The Dean’s International Forum on Canadian Cultural Identities.  University of Oshkosh, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 3 October, 2000. 

“The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Finding Work: Rethinking the Usefulness of the Graduate Degree.”  The International Humanities Forum, Ottawa, Ontario, 27 May, 1998. “Compiling a Press History: The Archival Challenge.”  The Toronto Centre for the Book.  Toronto, Ontario, 29 January, 1997.