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Education

BA, MA (McGill)
PhD (Waterloo)听

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My areas of research and teaching cover American literature, 鈥済enre fiction鈥� (specifically science fiction and the gothic) popular culture, and prison studies. Methodologically, my scholarship has generally focused on theories of identity (especially critical theories of gender and race, as well as queer theory), and I am currently working on a project concerning gothic representations of energy cultures (including electricity, petroculture, and others).

While at Dal, I鈥檝e developed undergraduate courses in popular culture, the Beat Generation, science fiction, and seminars on prison studies, utopian literature and theory, and American gothic, among others. At the graduate level, I have supervised PhD and MA theses in the fields listed above.

Selected Recent Publications

Books

• Co-ed. with Brad Congdon. The Cambridge Companion to the Weird and Literature (Cambridge UP, in progress).
• Ed., (Broadview Press, 2025)
• Co-ed. with Julia M. Wright,听听(1953) by Ian Fleming (Broadview 2020)
• Co-ed. with Joel Faflak,听听(Edinburgh UP, 2016)
• 听(Routledge 2015) (Received an honourable mention in the Robert K. Martin Book Prize competition.)

Articles and Chapters

• Delany in Dialogue: An Ongoing Article Cycle听听(This 鈥渁rticle cycle鈥� consists of an ongoing series of studies that place the works of Samuel R. Delany in dialogue with other authors on several topics; individual pieces are published in venues aimed at audiences within different fields and specialties. 鈥淧ower Disruptions: Delany鈥檚 and Okorafor鈥檚 Lyric Energies.鈥� ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, forthcoming.
• 鈥淓llison, Delany, and the Forgetting of Things Future.鈥� African American Review, forthcoming.
• Utopian Studies 28.2 (2017): 247-67.
• 鈥淢emory鈥檚 Guilted Cage: Delany鈥檚 Dhalgren and Gibson鈥檚 Pattern Recognition.鈥� Guilt. Ed. Joel Faflak. Spec. Issue of English Studies in Canada 32.1 (2006): 77-104. .

Other Articles and Chapters

• 听 Science Fiction Studies, 52.2 (2025): 278鈥�301.
• The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Novel and Politics. Ed. Bryan Santin. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2023. 142-59.
• Cold Water Oil. Ed. Fiona Polack and Danine Farquharson. New York: Routledge, 2022, 97-115.
• Canadian Review of American Studies 50.2 (2020): 220-40. (Received an honourable mention in the 2020 Ernest Redekop Essay Prize competition.)
• 鈥� Arizona Quarterly 73.3 (2017): 1-22.
• American Gothic Culture: An Edinburgh Companion. Ed. Jason Haslam and Joel Faflak. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2016. 44-59.

Selected Professional Positions

• Co-president (with Justin Edwards, Stirling U), (2017-2019)
• President, (2014-2016)
• President, (2010-2012)

Recent Grants and Awards

• SSHRC Insight Grant (2024-2028)
• SSHRC Insight Grant (2015-2021)
• SSHRC Explore Grant (2022)
• SSHRC Exchange Grant (2019; 2022)