2022 – present: Assistant Professor, Department of English, Université de Moncton
2021 – 2022: SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English, University of Toronto at Scarborough
2020 – 2021: Lecturer, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta
2020: Ph.D. (English), University of Alberta
2016: M.A. (Canadian Comparative Literature), Université de Moncton
2013: B.A. (Études françaises), Université de Moncton
Books Forthcoming
- Sieve Reading Beyond the Minor. Monograph. UOttawa Press (forthcoming).
- Digital Memory Agents in Canada: Performance, Representation, and Culture. Edited Collection. Co-editor with Amanda Spallacci. UAlberta Press (forthcoming).
Journal Articles
- “Emergent Critical Strategies Against the Nation-Trap: The Digitization of Literary Apocalyptic Affects and Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu.” Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies, no. 11, 2022, pp. 167-82.
- “The Destruction of Nationalism in Twenty-First-Century Canadian Apocalyptic Fiction.” American, British and Canadian Studies, no. 35, 2020, pp. 9-26.
- “Ulyssean Influences on Postmodern Canadian Identities: Revisiting Timothy Findley’s The Wars.” English Studies in Canada, vol. 44, no. 4, 2020, pp. 63-86.
- “Complicating World Literature in the ‘Minority’ Context: A Look at Translation and the Acadian Literary Ecosphere.” Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 45, no. 1, 2020, pp. 238-57.
- “‘I admit to a slight ambiguity’: Reflecting Upon Canada’s Creative and Critical Literary Inquisitors.” Spec. Issue of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, vol. 47, no. 1, 2020, pp. 57-73.
- “Affective Proximity: Tracing Jaime Lannister’s Moral Progression in HBO’s Game of Thrones.” Spec. Issue of the Canadian Review of American Studies, vol. 49, no. 1, 2019, pp. 7-25. *Lead Article
- “‘Portrait d’un artiste qui ne s’en goddamn pas’—Revue de Fall from Graisse et autres correspondances de Marc Chamberlain.” Astheure, 2018, n.p.
- “Modernity in Acadian Poetry: The Case of Ronald Després.” Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews, no. 78, 2016, pp. 28-44.
Book Chapters
- “Historiographic Metafiction and Speculative Fiction: The Cold War in Contemporary Apocalyptic Literary Canada, Coast to Coast.” ReVisions: Speculating in Literature and Film in Canada, edited by Wendy Roy (submitted).
- “Cultural Memory, National Identity: The Changing Paradigms of Acadian Literature.” National Literature in Multinational States, edited by Paul Morris and Albert Braz, UAlberta Press, 2022, pp. 21-41.
- “Through the Digital Prism: Acadian Counterculture and Identity Politics.” Digital Memory Agents in Canada: Performance, Representation, and Culture, edited by Amanda Spallacci and Matthew Cormier, University of Alberta Press (forthcoming).
- “‘I want your eye, man. I want those things you see through’: The Camera Exposing America’s ‘Post-Racial Lie’ in Jordan Peele’s Get Out and Us.” With Amanda Spallacci. Our Fears Made Manifest: Essays on Terror, Trauma and Loss in Film, 1998-2019, edited by Ashley J. Carranza, McFarland & Company, 2021, pp. 164-79.
- “Theorizing the Apocalyptic Turn in the Literatures of Canada: Un/Veiling the Apocalyptic Direction in Affect Studies.” All the Feels / Tous les sens: Affect and Writing in Canada / Affect et écriture au Canada, edited by Marie Carrière, Kit Dobson, and Ursula Moser, University of Alberta Press, 2020, pp. 3-22.
Entries in Edited Anthologies
- “Ronald Després.” New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia, edited by Tony Tremblay, Saint Thomas University, 2014, n.p.
Creative Works
- “Every Great Man Has at Some Time Been Homeless.” Galleon, no. 4, 2015, p. 55.
Book Reviews
- “Not Forgotten Yet: A Review of New Brunswick at the Crossroads: Literary Ferment and Social Change in the East.” Parallel Universe: The Poetries of New Brunswick. Spec. Issue of Hamilton Arts & Letters, 2019, pp. 194-97.
- “Unseen, Yet Heard: A Review of Lizzie Derksen’s Accomplice.” Lizzie Derksen, 2017, n.p.
Other Engagements
- Radio Canada (as Interviewee). Speaking as co-founder and co-editor of the Beûgle Literary and Cultural Review. Radio interview on “L’heure de pointe en Acadie, » Radio Canada. 6 October 2014.
- CBC (as Interviewee). Speaking as co-founder and co-editor of the Beûgle Literary and Cultural Review. Radio interview on “CBC Information Morning,” CBC. 1 October 2014
- “Chi qu’est ta mère, toi?” Beûgle, no. 1, Fall 2014, p. 19.
- “Editorial.” Beûgle no. 1, Fall 2014, p. 2.
- “Student Profile.” Spec. issue of Maclean’s Magazine, April 2014, n.p.
- “3:47 AM.” The Forehead Review, no. 10, Spring 2013, n.p.
Honours, Awards, and Distinctions
- Nominated, SSHRC Impact Talent Award, University of Toronto (2022)
- SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2021-2023)
- SSHRC Insight Development Grant, with Marie Carrière and Amanda Fayant (2021-2023)
- Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Across Canada Public Outreach Grant, Canadian Literature Centre, with Sarah Krotz and Austen Lee (2021)
- Finalist, University of Alberta’s Governor General’s Gold Medal (2020)
- University of Alberta’s Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship (2019-2021)
- SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship (2017-2020)
- University of Alberta’s Andrew Stewart Memorial Graduate Prize (2019)
- University of Alberta’s President’s Doctoral Prize of Distinction (2019)
- University of Alberta Department of English and Film Studies’ Morton Lee Ross Memorial Scholarship in Literature for outstanding literary-critical studies of modern Canadian fiction (2018)
- University of Alberta’s President’s Doctoral Prize of Distinction (2018)
- Sarah Nettie Christie Travel Bursary—Research (2018)
- Sarah Nettie Christie Travel Bursary—Conference (2017)
- University of Alberta’s President’s Doctoral Prize of Distinction (2017)
- Sarah Nettie Christie Travel Bursary—Research (2017)
- Finalist for the Barbara Godard Prize for best paper by an emerging scholar, Association of Canadian and Québec Literatures, “What Does Canada Know About Crisis? Apocalyptic Narratives in Twenty-First-Century Canadian Fiction” (2016)
- Province of Alberta’s Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship (2016)
- University of Alberta Department of English and Film Studies Graduate Scholarship and TA (2016)
- Sarah Nettie Christie Travel Bursary—Conference (2016)
- Finalist for the Canadian Literature Centre Poetry Prize, “Op. Ed. from New Brunswick—Site of Canadian Duality,” Canadian Literature Centre, University of Alberta (2016)
- University of Alberta Department of English and Film Studies’ Graduate Scholarship and TA (2015)
Invited Talks, Guest Lectures, and Conference Presentations
- “Guest Lecture for English 6818: Social Robots in the Cultural Imagination.” Department of English, University of Toronto, November 2021.
- “Guest Lecture for English 6818: Social Robots in the Cultural Imagination.” Department of English, University of Toronto, September 2021.
- “The Case for ‘Sieve Reading’: A Two-Pronged Digital Humanist Methodology.” CDHI Digital Humanities Conference. Organizer Digital Humanities Network, Toronto, Ontario, 21-22 October 2021.
- “Working Through Cultural Memory to Represent National Identity: The Paradigm of Acadian Literature.” Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Organizer Canadian Comparative Literature Association, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2-4 June 2019.
- “Digitizing Aesthetics, Memory, and Culture in France Daigle’s Pour sûr.” Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Organizer Association for Canadian and Québec Literatures, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1-3 June 2019.
- “Aca-data Linguistics: A Digital Study of Chiac in Acadian France Daigle’s Pour sûr.” Canadian Literature Centre Research Seminar, University of Alberta, March 2019.
- “Guest Lecture for English 376: Canadian Literature and Culture: Late 20th- and Early 21st-Century Texts.” Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, February 2019.
- “Deforming the Novel: The Database and Data Visualization in Textual Analysis.” Cameron Library, University of Alberta, June 2018.
- “Proseminar A: Candidacy Examinations.” Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, November 2017.
- “Guest Lecture for ENGL 375: Reading Canadian Culture: The CLC.” Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, November 2017.
- “‘Ville du monde’: A Look at Acadian Fiction Through Herb Wyile’s Criticism.” Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Organizer Association for Canadian and Québec Literatures, Toronto, Ontario, 27 May-2 June 2017.
- “The Apocalyptic Turn: Exploring the Influence of Apocalyptic Narratives on Recent Affect Studies.” Maladies of the Soul, Emotion, Affect. Organizer Canadian Literature Centre, Banff, Alberta, 23-26 September 2016.
- “Apocalypse as Sequel in The Magician’s Nephew.” Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Organizer Christianity and Literature Study Group, Calgary, Alberta, 28-31 May 2016.
- “What Does Canada Know About Crisis? Apocalyptic Narratives in Twenty-First-Century Canadian Fiction.” Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Organizer Association for Canadian and Québec Literatures, Calgary, Alberta, 28-30 May 2016.
- “Comparative Literature and its Strength in Lateral Argumentation.” Comparative Literature Students’ Tribune. Coorganizer University of Toronto, University of Montreal, Montreal, Québec, 16 January 2015.
- “The Reciprocal Influence of Literature and Society in Acadian Writings from Després to Daigle.” Atlantic Canada Studies Conference. Co-organizer Denis McKim, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, 1-3 May 2014.