My research engages the study of gender, reading, and religion; women’s literature and culture; and pedagogy and education. I also teach and write feminist speculative fiction.
My areas of graduate supervision cover a wide historical range, from medieval and early modern literature and culture to contemporary children’s/YA and speculative fiction. I’m especially interested in book production and reception, theories of space and place, and gender and sexuality studies. I have served on MA/PhD committees in topics ranging from gender theories combined with speculative fiction research creation, accessibility and EDI in university and high school pedagogies, gender in comic studies and YA fiction, nineteenth-century dance hall traditions, and Victorian spiritualism. I enjoy working with students who pursue multi-faceted projects and combine theoretical, historical, and social elements into their studies of literature and culture.
I am an active participant at our teaching and learning centre, the MacPherson Institute, where several of my students have taken courses or worked part-time as educational consultants and students partners. I am also interested in experiential education and finding ways for students to apply their studies in the community. My more recent creative publications offer a new challenge of reimagining my academic research into a more accessible medium. In the process, I have learned I love teaching creative writing and helping students make the most of their creative work.
