This page details my academic trajectory and experience. I detail my education, my contract academic positions, my honors and awards, and my published and RR publications. Please reach out for more information and/or copies of the publications.

Education

University of New Brunswick

  • ONGOING: Ph.D. English (Queer 18th Century Academic/Creative)

  • 2018-2020: M.A. English (Creative Writing)

Lakehead University

  • 2014-2018: HBA English and Creative Writing

University of British Columbia

  • 2017: Certificate Program in Creative Writing

Academic Positions

UNB English Department

  • 2023: Contract Academic Position ENGL 2012: English Literature 1660-1900

  • 2022: Substitute Professor ENGL 2195: Creative Writing

  • 2021-2022: Contract Academic Position ENGL 1000: Intro to Literature

  • Teaching Assistant ENGG: 1003 Professional Writing

Studies in Canadian Literature (SCL) Journal

  • 2019-2020: Editor/Proofreader Studies in Canadian Literature

Lakehead University English Department

  • 2017: Research Intern for Dr. Monica Flegel and Dr. Judith Leggatt

  • 2016: Peer-Support Tutor

Honours and Awards

Faculty of Arts Award for Excellence in Teaching Nomination (UNB) 2021-2022

W.C.D. Pacey Postgraduate Scholarship 2022

Tom Riesterer Memorial Essay Prize 2021

Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships – Doctoral 2020-23

SGS Doctoral Recruitment Award (UNB) 2020-21

President's Doctoral Tuition Awards (UNB) 2020-21

Magee - Third Century Postgraduate Merit Award 2018-19

John and Florence Schreiber Memorial Scholarship (LU) 2016-18

Bill MacDonald Creative Writing Prize (LU) 2016-18

Laureen and Biff Beiler Memorial Award (LU) 2016-17

Publications

RR:

  • “The Monsters of Your Botanic Garden”: The Terrifying Landscape of Erasmus Darwin’s The Loves of the Plants (ERR)

  • Bad Theatre: On Theatrical Absence and Pandemic Vibrancy (Bad Artist Anthology by Writing Craft Collective)

Published

  • Trinidadian/Canadian Food and the Fiction of Belonging in David Chariandy’s Brother (SCL)

  • Review: Wild Things; The Disorder of Desire (Alternate Routes; 2021)

  • ‘Not my Captain America’: Race-Bending, ‘Reverse Discrimination,’ and White Panic in Marvel Comics Fandom (Fandom, Now in Color; U of Iowa Press; 2020)

  • Life as a Marketable Commodity: Minoritizing Self-Branding in Online Gay Travel Blogs (Beyond Life Itself: Graduate Conference; 2019)

  • ‘They Made Iceman Gay’: Queer as a ‘Politically Loaded Subject’ in Marvel Comics Online Fandom (Comix in an Authoritarian Age: Roundtable Discussion; 2018)

  • Empowered Queer Identity through the Contemporary Witches in Oz (InterHumanities: UNRH; 2018)

  • Painting with Miss Chief: Promoting Diverse Representations of Indigeneity (LU English Undergraduate & Graduate Conference 2017)