I am a Full Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the Université de Moncton. I have held three mandates as Chair of English and two mandates as a member of the Academic Senate. 

My research focuses on comparative Canadian studies, theory of the novel, world literature, and nineteenth-century transatlantic literatures. My edited books include Canadian Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century: Fiction (forthcoming from Routledge Press), National Plots: Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada (Wilfrid Laurier University Press), and The Manor House of De Villerai by Rosanna Mullins Leprohon (Broadview Editions). My peer-reviewed articles and book chapters have been published in leading journals, including Journal of World Literature, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, and Canadian Literature, as well by top presses such as Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Routledge Press. I am principal investigator for the SSHRC-funded research project, "Reconstituting a neglected archive: case studies in life writing by Acadian and New Brunswick Women, 1900-1990."

I currently sit on the advisory board of the academic journal, Studies in Canadian Literature. I have served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Canadian Studies, as Vice-President of the Association of Canadian and Québec Literatures (ACQL) and as Chair of the Gabrielle Roy Prize (an annual prize awarded to the best work of Canadian literary criticism, administered by the ACQL).

I teach courses in comparative Canadian literatures, literary theory, and postcolonial literatures. I have supervised graduate theses written in both English and French on a wide range of topics, including feminist speculative fictions, contemporary Indigenous masculinities, and women's literary archives, as well as on a range of anglophone and francophone authors, from Margaret Atwood and Élisabeth Vonarburg to Timothy Findley and France Daigle.

My expertise in English- and Franco-Canadian literatures has resulted in invitations to deliver keynote and plenary addresses (most recently at Université Laval) and media interviews (most recently for the CBC Radio program, Ideas, episode titled "The Passion of Émile Nelligan").