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EDUCATION
PhD in English, McGill University, 2016
Dissertation: “‘A Strange Gestation: Periods of Poetic Silence in Modern Canadian Creative Careers”
Selected Awards: SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (2011-14), Slava Klima Prize for Excellence in the PhD Program in English (2012)
(Please see here for a summary of my dissertation and other research, as well as details about publications and conference presentations)
MA in English, McGill University, 2010
Research Paper: “Being In-tense: Time in the Fiction of Lisa Moore”
BA (Honours) in English and French, Glendon College, York University, 2009
Achieved Glendon Certificate of Bilingual Excellence
Member of the President’s Honour Roll (for a perfect GPA)
Selected Awards: Escott Reid Bilingual Excellence Award (2009), Glendon College English Department Book Prize (for the graduating English major with the highest GPA) (2009), Governor’s Award of Merit (2005)
High School, Neuchatel Junior College, Neuchatel, Switzerland, 2005
Selected Awards: Governor General’s Academic Medal (for the graduating student with the highest average)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
George Brown College (2019-present)
COMM 1007: College English (Fall 2019, Winter 2020)
Bishop’s University, as Assistant Professor (2016-17)
ENG 256: Early 20th-Century American Novel
ENG 113: English Literary Tradition II: The 18th Century to the Present
ENG 110: English Writers of Quebec
ENG 253: English-Canadian Literature from World War I to the Present
ENG 218: Popular Narratives: The Gothic Tradition
ENG 123: Introduction to Indigenous Literatures in Canada
McGill University, as Course Instructor (2013-present, intermittent)
BUSA 250: Expressive Analysis for Management (Winter 2018, Fall 2017)
ENGL 346: Materiality and Sociology of Text (Fall 2017)
ENGL 335: Twentieth-Century Novel 1 (Summer 2017, Summer 2019)
ENGL 226: American Literature 2 (1865-1957) (Summer 2017, Summer 2019)
ENGL 229: Canadian Literature 2 (1945-2016) (Summer 2016, Summer 2015)
ENGL 496: Individual Reading Course: “Three Southern Modernists” (Winter 2016)
ENGL 311: Poetics (Fall 2015)
ENGL 419: 20th-Century American Literature: “Americans Abroad” (Winter 2015)
ENGL 327: Canadian Prose Fiction 1 (1920-1960) (Fall 2013)
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE (Selected)
President, English Graduate Students Association, McGill University (2012-13)
Independent Reading Group Co-leader (“Philosophy and Literature: Imaginative Thought”), McGill Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas (2013)
18th Annual McGill English Graduate Conference Co-Organizer (“Ghost Stories: Hauntings and Echoes in Literature and Culture”) (2011-12)
McGill Graduate Group for Feminist Scholarship Symposium Co-Organizer (“(Dis)Embodied Feminisms: New Perspectives on Gender, Sexuality, and Identity”) (2010-11)
Musical Director, Glendon Musical Ensemble, York University (2007-09)