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Department of English, University of New Brunswick
P.O. Box 4400, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5A3
Phone: (506) 453-4676, ext. 7403
CURRENT POSITION Tenured Associate Professor of Canadian Literature in the Department of English, University of New Brunswick. Appointment at level of Assistant Professor began July 1, 1999. Granted early promotion and early tenure in spring of 2003. Became Associate Professor on July 1, 2003.
CURRENT POSITION
Tenured Associate Professor of Canadian Literature in the Department of English, University of New Brunswick. Appointment at level of Assistant Professor began July 1, 1999. Granted early promotion and early tenure in spring of 2003. Became Associate Professor on July 1, 2003.
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CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS I am currently writing a monograph under contract with the University of Toronto Press, titled In the Belly of a Laughing God: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native North American Women's Poetry. In addition, I am completing articles on Howard Norman, George Elliott Clarke and his significance to Fredericton, and a conference paper on the Oprah-fication of Fall On Your Knees. I am particularly interested in border studies, Native North American writing, as well as contemporary Canadian poetry and fiction.
EDUCATION Ph.D.: English Literature, University of Toronto, defended June, 1998. Dissertation: “Fields of Rye: Theorizing the Serious Laughter of Humour in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American and English-Canadian Fiction.” After formalizing the concept of serious laughter (which combines pleasure and pain) and considering how serious laughter complicates the links between national borders and styles of humour, this study examines the relationship of humour to nation in four texts by Mark Twain, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Toni Morrison, and Thomas King. Co-supervisors: Linda Hutcheon and Russell Brown. Committee Member: Jill Matus. Special Field Examinations : American and English-Canadian Literature (novels, poetry, and drama), 1945-1995. Passed with distinction. Comprehensive Examinations : English Literature from Medieval to 1700; English Literature from 1700 to the present. M.A.: English Literature, University of Toronto, 1994. B.A., Honours: English Literature, McGill University, 1993.
EDUCATION
Ph.D.: English Literature, University of Toronto, defended June, 1998. Dissertation: “Fields of Rye: Theorizing the Serious Laughter of Humour in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American and English-Canadian Fiction.” After formalizing the concept of serious laughter (which combines pleasure and pain) and considering how serious laughter complicates the links between national borders and styles of humour, this study examines the relationship of humour to nation in four texts by Mark Twain, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Toni Morrison, and Thomas King.
Co-supervisors: Linda Hutcheon and Russell Brown. Committee Member: Jill Matus.
Special Field Examinations : American and English-Canadian Literature (novels, poetry, and drama), 1945-1995. Passed with distinction.
Comprehensive Examinations : English Literature from Medieval to 1700; English Literature from 1700 to the present.
M.A.: English Literature, University of Toronto, 1994.
B.A., Honours: English Literature, McGill University, 1993.
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS SSHRC Research Grant, Awarded $40,822.00 over four years, April, 2002-2006. SSHRC Research Grant, Recommended for funding but refused due to insufficient funds, April, 2001. Was ranked 34 out of 80 applications, 28 received funding. SSHRC Seed Grant Award ($5000.00), awarded March, 2000. UNB New Scholars Research Award ($3500.00), awarded November, 1999. Co-investigator on a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Grant totalling $25,000.00, awarded June, 1999 to complete a book on Thomas King with Professor Priscilla Walton (Principal Investigator). Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Post-Doctoral Fellowship, September, 1998 to June, 1999. Fulbright Doctoral Scholarship, The Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program, March to July, 1998. School of Criticism and Theory: scholarship recipient and participant in two courses taught by Professor Judith Butler and Professor Diana Fuss, June to July, 1995. John Macrory Fellowship, University of Toronto, May, 1995. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship, April, 1994 to August, 1998. Moyse Travelling Scholarship and Dora Forsyth Prize for English, McGill University, June,1993. 1993-94 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, April, 1993.
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
SSHRC Research Grant, Awarded $40,822.00 over four years, April, 2002-2006.
SSHRC Research Grant, Recommended for funding but refused due to insufficient funds, April, 2001. Was ranked 34 out of 80 applications, 28 received funding.
SSHRC Seed Grant Award ($5000.00), awarded March, 2000.
UNB New Scholars Research Award ($3500.00), awarded November, 1999.
Co-investigator on a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Grant totalling $25,000.00, awarded June, 1999 to complete a book on Thomas King with Professor Priscilla Walton (Principal Investigator).
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Post-Doctoral Fellowship, September, 1998 to June, 1999.
Fulbright Doctoral Scholarship, The Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program, March to July, 1998.
School of Criticism and Theory: scholarship recipient and participant in two courses taught by Professor Judith Butler and Professor Diana Fuss, June to July, 1995.
John Macrory Fellowship, University of Toronto, May, 1995.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship, April, 1994 to August, 1998.
Moyse Travelling Scholarship and Dora Forsyth Prize for English, McGill University, June,1993.
1993-94 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, April, 1993.
PUBLICATIONS - BOOKS (in chronological order) Received an advanced contract for In the Belly of a Laughing God: Humour and Irony in thePoetry of Recent Native North American Women Writers, from University of Toronto Press. The manuscript is due to the press in 2005. Expected publication date of 2007. Border Crossings: Thomas King’s Cultural Inversions . Co-authored with Professor Priscilla Walton, and Professor Arnold Davidson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Nominated by University of Toronto Press for the MLA James Russell Lowell Prize (2003). PUBLICATIONS - ARTICLES (in chronological order) “Reading Risk in The Navigator of New York.” Submitted to Journal of Commonwealth Literature. Forthcoming. “A Different Kind of Reality: Reading the Humor of Caroline Kirkland’s A New Home, Who’ll Follow?.” Studies in American Humor 3.10 (2003): 5-20. “Humour and Irony, Métis Style: Reading the Poetry of Marilyn Dumont and Gregory Scofield.” Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 50 (2002): 6-31. “Introduction: Past Matters: History and Canadian Fiction.” Co-authored with Herb Wyile and Robert Viau. Studies in Canadian Literature 27.1 (2002): 5-14. “Reading Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water: Border-Crossing Humour.” English Studies in Canada 28.1 (2002): 91-116. “Native Canadian Gothic Refigured: Reading Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach.” Essays on Canadian Writing 72 (2001): 1-24. “Humoring the Border at the end of the Millennium: Constructing an English-Canadian Humour Tradition for the Twentieth Century and Beyond.” Essays on Canadian Writing 71 (2000): 140-149. “In the Belly of a Laughing God: Reading Humor and Irony in the Poetry of Joy Harjo.” American Indian Quarterly 24.2 (2000): 200-218. “Introduction: Beyond the Margins.” Co-authored with John Clement Ball. Studies in Canadian Literature 25.1 (2000): 1-11. “Reading Toni Morrison’s Jazz: Rewriting the Tall Tale and Playing with the Trickster in the American and African-American Humour Traditions.” The Canadian Review of American Studies 29.1 (1999): 87-107. “Rethinking the Relevance of Magic Realism for English-Canadian Literature: Reading Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall On Your Knees.” Studies in Canadian Literature 24.1 (1999): 1-20. “A Preliminary History: The House of Anansi Press.” Textual Studies in Canada 10/11 (1998): 55-68. “Framing The Book of Jessica: Transformation and the Collaborative Process in Canadian Theatre.” English Studies in Canada 22.3 (1996): 297-313. PUBLICATIONS—ANTHOLOGIES “Mígmaq: Three Stories.” Co-authored introduction and co-edited stories by E. Nàgùgwes Metallic with Robert Leavitt for publication in an anthology of contemporary Native North American narratives, edited by Brian Swann. Under contract at University of Nebraska Press. 561-571. Forthcoming. PUBLICATIONS - ENCYCLOPAEDIA ENTRIES “Thomas King.” Canadian Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed. Christian Riegel. Forthcoming. “Anne Michaels.” Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. Ed. Sorrel Kerbel. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. 374-375. “Humour and Satire in Canadian Literature.” Reader’s Encyclopaedia of Canadian Literature. Ed. W. H. New. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2002. 679-89. PUBLICATIONS - REVIEWS Review of Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature by George Elliott Clarke. Canadian Poetry 54 (2004): 102-105. Review of Women Coauthors by Holly A. Laird. International Fiction Review 30 (2003):105-106. Review of The Last of the Ofos by Geary Hobson and Life Woven with Song by Nora Marks Dauenhauer. International Fiction Review 29 (2002): 112-113. Review of Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson. The Fiddlehead 208 (2001): 167-69. “Beauty and Substance: A Review of Monkey Beach, The Shadow Boxer, and Going Down Swinging .” Canadian Literature 168 (2001): 160-62. “Making Associations: A Review of Truth and Bright Water and Crazy Dave.” Canadian Literature 168 (2001): 151-2. “The Confessional/Sexual Body: A Review of Confessional Politics: Women’s Sexual Self-Representations in Life Writing and Popular Media.” Nineteenth-Century Feminisms. Forthcoming. “Review of Canadian Writers and their Works: Fiction Series, Volume 12.” University ofToronto Quarterly 67.1 (Winter 1997-98): 282-4. PUBLICATIONS - INTERVIEWS “‘Among the Word Animals’: A Conversation with Marilyn Dumont.” Studies in Canadian Literature. Forthcoming. “A Conversation with Diane Glancy.” American Indian Quarterly 26.4 (2002): 645-658. “Border Trickery and Dog Bones: A Conversation with Thomas King.” Studies in Canadian Literature 24.2 (1999): 161-85. Top
PUBLICATIONS - BOOKS (in chronological order)
Received an advanced contract for In the Belly of a Laughing God: Humour and Irony in thePoetry of Recent Native North American Women Writers, from University of Toronto Press. The manuscript is due to the press in 2005. Expected publication date of 2007.
Border Crossings: Thomas King’s Cultural Inversions . Co-authored with Professor Priscilla Walton, and Professor Arnold Davidson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.
Nominated by University of Toronto Press for the MLA James Russell Lowell Prize (2003).
PUBLICATIONS - ARTICLES (in chronological order)
“Reading Risk in The Navigator of New York.” Submitted to Journal of Commonwealth Literature. Forthcoming.
“A Different Kind of Reality: Reading the Humor of Caroline Kirkland’s A New Home, Who’ll Follow?.” Studies in American Humor 3.10 (2003): 5-20.
“Humour and Irony, Métis Style: Reading the Poetry of Marilyn Dumont and Gregory Scofield.”
Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 50 (2002): 6-31.
“Introduction: Past Matters: History and Canadian Fiction.” Co-authored with Herb Wyile and Robert Viau. Studies in Canadian Literature 27.1 (2002): 5-14.
“Reading Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water: Border-Crossing Humour.” English Studies in Canada 28.1 (2002): 91-116.
“Native Canadian Gothic Refigured: Reading Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach.” Essays on Canadian Writing 72 (2001): 1-24.
“Humoring the Border at the end of the Millennium: Constructing an English-Canadian Humour Tradition for the Twentieth Century and Beyond.” Essays on Canadian Writing 71 (2000): 140-149.
“In the Belly of a Laughing God: Reading Humor and Irony in the Poetry of Joy Harjo.”
American Indian Quarterly 24.2 (2000): 200-218.
“Introduction: Beyond the Margins.” Co-authored with John Clement Ball. Studies in Canadian Literature 25.1 (2000): 1-11.
“Reading Toni Morrison’s Jazz: Rewriting the Tall Tale and Playing with the Trickster in the American and African-American Humour Traditions.” The Canadian Review of American Studies 29.1 (1999): 87-107.
“Rethinking the Relevance of Magic Realism for English-Canadian Literature: Reading Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall On Your Knees.” Studies in Canadian Literature 24.1 (1999): 1-20.
“A Preliminary History: The House of Anansi Press.” Textual Studies in Canada 10/11 (1998): 55-68.
“Framing The Book of Jessica: Transformation and the Collaborative Process in Canadian Theatre.” English Studies in Canada 22.3 (1996): 297-313.
PUBLICATIONS—ANTHOLOGIES
“Mígmaq: Three Stories.” Co-authored introduction and co-edited stories by
E. Nàgùgwes Metallic with Robert Leavitt for publication in an anthology of contemporary Native North American narratives, edited by Brian Swann. Under contract at University of Nebraska Press. 561-571. Forthcoming.
PUBLICATIONS - ENCYCLOPAEDIA ENTRIES
“Thomas King.” Canadian Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed. Christian Riegel. Forthcoming.
“Anne Michaels.” Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. Ed. Sorrel Kerbel. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. 374-375.
“Humour and Satire in Canadian Literature.” Reader’s Encyclopaedia of Canadian Literature. Ed. W. H. New. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2002. 679-89.
PUBLICATIONS - REVIEWS
Review of Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature by George Elliott Clarke. Canadian Poetry 54 (2004): 102-105.
Review of Women Coauthors by Holly A. Laird. International Fiction Review 30 (2003):105-106.
Review of The Last of the Ofos by Geary Hobson and Life Woven with Song by Nora Marks Dauenhauer. International Fiction Review 29 (2002): 112-113.
Review of Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson. The Fiddlehead 208 (2001): 167-69.
“Beauty and Substance: A Review of Monkey Beach, The Shadow Boxer, and Going Down Swinging .” Canadian Literature 168 (2001): 160-62.
“Making Associations: A Review of Truth and Bright Water and Crazy Dave.” Canadian Literature 168 (2001): 151-2.
“The Confessional/Sexual Body: A Review of Confessional Politics: Women’s Sexual Self-Representations in Life Writing and Popular Media.” Nineteenth-Century Feminisms. Forthcoming.
“Review of Canadian Writers and their Works: Fiction Series, Volume 12.” University ofToronto Quarterly 67.1 (Winter 1997-98): 282-4.
PUBLICATIONS - INTERVIEWS
“‘Among the Word Animals’: A Conversation with Marilyn Dumont.” Studies in Canadian Literature. Forthcoming.
“A Conversation with Diane Glancy.” American Indian Quarterly 26.4 (2002): 645-658.
“Border Trickery and Dog Bones: A Conversation with Thomas King.” Studies in Canadian Literature 24.2 (1999): 161-85.
INVITED LECTURES “Rethinking Borders: Reading Thomas King and the 49 th Parallel.” American Indian Studies Program. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 27 March, 2003. “Humoring the Border: Examining the Forty-Ninth Parallel and the English-Canadian Humor Tradition at the End of the Millenium.” The Dean’s International Forum on Canadian Cultural Identities. University of Oshkosh. Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 3 October, 2000. “The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Finding Work: Rethinking the Usefulness of the Graduate Degree.” The International Humanities Forum. Ottawa, Ontario, 27 May, 1998. “Compiling a Press History: The Archival Challenge.” The Toronto Centre for the Book. Toronto, Ontario, 29 January, 1997.
INVITED LECTURES
“Rethinking Borders: Reading Thomas King and the 49 th Parallel.” American Indian Studies Program. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 27 March, 2003.
“Humoring the Border: Examining the Forty-Ninth Parallel and the English-Canadian Humor Tradition at the End of the Millenium.” The Dean’s International Forum on Canadian Cultural Identities. University of Oshkosh. Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 3 October, 2000.
“The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Finding Work: Rethinking the Usefulness of the Graduate Degree.” The International Humanities Forum. Ottawa, Ontario, 27 May, 1998.
“Compiling a Press History: The Archival Challenge.” The Toronto Centre for the Book. Toronto, Ontario, 29 January, 1997.
CONFERENCES “Whose Fall?: The Oprah-fication of MacDonald’s Novel.” Modern Language Association. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December, 2004. “Revisioning Fredericton: Reading George Elliott Clarke’s Execution Poems.” Surf’s Up: The Rising Tide of Atlantic Canadian Literature Conference. Wolfville, Nova Scotia, October, 2004. “Ghost Spaces, Living Histories: Memory and Photography in Contemporary Native North American Women’s Photography.” Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Hyderabad, India, August 6, 2004. “Mobility and Aesthetics: Generic Transformation in the Poetry and Music of Joy Harjo.” Midwestern Modern Languages Association. Chicago, Illinois, November 8, 2003. “ Working Toward a Native Centered Criticism: Reading the Poetry of Kimberly Blaeser.” Canadian Association of Commonwealth Literatures. Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1 June, 2003. “Reading Risk in The Navigator of New York.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English. Dalhousie University. Halifax, Nova Scotia, 30 May, 2003. “Thomas King and Canadian Identity.” Modern Language Association. New York City, New York, 29 December, 2002. “Word and Image: Imperialism and Photography in Helen Humphrey’s Afterimage.” The Canadian Association of American Studies. Toronto, Ontario, 19 October, 2001. “From Text to Song: Generic Transformations in the Work of Joy Harjo and Poetic Justice.” Modern Language Association. Washington, D.C, 27 December, 2000. “Displacing and Engendering Diasporic Discourses: Reading Howard Norman’s The Museum Guard.” The Canadian Association of American Studies. Ottawa, Ontario, 4 November, 2000. “Humour and Irony, Métis Style: Reading the Poetry of Marilyn Dumont and Gregory Scofield.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English. University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta, 25 May, 2000. “Humoring the Border: Constructing an English-Canadian Humor Tradition in the Twentieth Century.” Association of Canadian Studies in the United States. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 20 November, 1999. “Humor and Irony in Contemporary Native American Women’s Poetry: Reading Joy Harjo.” Modern Language Association. San Francisco, California, 30 December, 1998. “Reading Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water: Cross-Border Humour and Laughter.” Canadian Comparative Literature Association. Ottawa, Ontario, 28 May, 1998. “Re/Imagining Magic Realism in Canadian Literature: Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall On YourKnees.” Canadian Comparative Literature Association. St. John's, Newfoundland, 2 June, 1997. “Humor and Irony in Atwood’s Morning in the Burned House.” Modern Language Association. Chicago, Illinois, 27 December, 1995. “The Potency of Silence: Revisioning Colonial Mimicry in J.M. Coetzee’s Foe.” The Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English. University of Calgary. Calgary, Alberta, 3 June, 1994. “Challenging the Postmodern Paradox: Narrative Perspective and Irony in the Short Stories of Alice Munro and Audrey Thomas.” The Association for Canadian Studies in the United States. New Orleans, Louisiana, 20 November, 1993.
CONFERENCES
“Whose Fall?: The Oprah-fication of MacDonald’s Novel.” Modern Language Association. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December, 2004.
“Revisioning Fredericton: Reading George Elliott Clarke’s Execution Poems.” Surf’s Up: The Rising Tide of Atlantic Canadian Literature Conference. Wolfville, Nova Scotia, October, 2004.
“Ghost Spaces, Living Histories: Memory and Photography in Contemporary Native North American Women’s Photography.” Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Hyderabad, India, August 6, 2004.
“Mobility and Aesthetics: Generic Transformation in the Poetry and Music of Joy Harjo.”
Midwestern Modern Languages Association. Chicago, Illinois, November 8, 2003.
“ Working Toward a Native Centered Criticism: Reading the Poetry of Kimberly Blaeser.”
Canadian Association of Commonwealth Literatures. Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1 June, 2003.
“Reading Risk in The Navigator of New York.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English. Dalhousie University. Halifax, Nova Scotia, 30 May, 2003.
“Thomas King and Canadian Identity.” Modern Language Association. New York City, New York, 29 December, 2002.
“Word and Image: Imperialism and Photography in Helen Humphrey’s Afterimage.” The Canadian Association of American Studies. Toronto, Ontario, 19 October, 2001.
“From Text to Song: Generic Transformations in the Work of Joy Harjo and Poetic Justice.” Modern Language Association. Washington, D.C, 27 December, 2000.
“Displacing and Engendering Diasporic Discourses: Reading Howard Norman’s The Museum Guard.” The Canadian Association of American Studies. Ottawa, Ontario, 4 November, 2000.
“Humour and Irony, Métis Style: Reading the Poetry of Marilyn Dumont and Gregory Scofield.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English. University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta, 25 May, 2000.
“Humoring the Border: Constructing an English-Canadian Humor Tradition in the Twentieth Century.” Association of Canadian Studies in the United States. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 20 November, 1999.
“Humor and Irony in Contemporary Native American Women’s Poetry: Reading Joy Harjo.” Modern Language Association. San Francisco, California, 30 December, 1998.
“Reading Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water: Cross-Border Humour and Laughter.” Canadian Comparative Literature Association. Ottawa, Ontario, 28 May, 1998.
“Re/Imagining Magic Realism in Canadian Literature: Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall On YourKnees.” Canadian Comparative Literature Association. St. John's, Newfoundland, 2 June, 1997.
“Humor and Irony in Atwood’s Morning in the Burned House.” Modern Language Association. Chicago, Illinois, 27 December, 1995.
“The Potency of Silence: Revisioning Colonial Mimicry in J.M. Coetzee’s Foe.” The Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English. University of Calgary. Calgary, Alberta, 3 June, 1994.
“Challenging the Postmodern Paradox: Narrative Perspective and Irony in the Short Stories of Alice Munro and Audrey Thomas.” The Association for Canadian Studies in the United States. New Orleans, Louisiana, 20 November, 1993.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE September 2004 - April 2005. Tenured Associate Professor, University of New Brunswick:
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
September 2004 - April 2005. Tenured Associate Professor, University of New Brunswick:
ENGL 3640: The Canadian Novel
ENGL 5185: Rewriting the Past: Contemporary English-Canadian Historical Novels.
ENGL 6607: Canadian Literature in the UNB Archives: Textual Theory and Editorial Practice.
September 2003 - April 2004. Tenured Associate Professor, University of New Brunswick:
ENGL 3988: What’s So Funny? A Cross-Border Study of Humour in Literature and Performance
ENGL 3610: English-Canadian Poetry and Prose from the pre-Confederation Era to the Present
ENGL 5163: Border Crossings: Comparative Canadian and American Fiction
September 2001 - April 2002. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, University of New Brunswick:
ENGL 3743: Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
ENGL 3083: Post Colonial Theory
ENGL 6607: Canadian Literature in the UNB Archives: Textual Theory and Editorial Practice
September 2000 - April 2001. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, University of New Brunswick:
ENGL 1000: Introduction to Twentieth-Century English Literature
ENGL 3640: The Canadian Novel from the pre-Confederation Era to the Present
ENGL 3703: Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
ENGL 6694: The Politics of Native North American Identities
September 1999 - April 2000. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, University of New Brunswick:
ENGL1000: Introduction to Twentieth-Century English Literature
ENGL 2901: English Literature to 1660
ENGL 2803: Introduction to Critical Theory
ENGL 6604: Rethinking the Canadian Canon
May 20 to June 25, 1997. Teaching Assistant - University of Toronto. ENG 338A: Modern Drama. March 10, 12, 1997. Guest Lecturer - University of Toronto at Scarborough. ENG B50Y: Women Writers. September - December, 1996. Instructor - University of Toronto. ENG 182F: Effective Technical Writing for Engineers. November 1994 - May 1995. Teaching Assistant - University of Toronto at Mississauga. ENG 252Y: Canadian Literature.
May 20 to June 25, 1997. Teaching Assistant - University of Toronto. ENG 338A: Modern Drama.
March 10, 12, 1997. Guest Lecturer - University of Toronto at Scarborough. ENG B50Y: Women Writers.
September - December, 1996. Instructor - University of Toronto. ENG 182F: Effective Technical Writing for Engineers.
November 1994 - May 1995. Teaching Assistant - University of Toronto at Mississauga. ENG 252Y: Canadian Literature.
SERVICE Elected as a representative for the Faculty of Arts on the University of New Brunswick Student Standings and Promotion Committee, November 2003. Member of the Delegate Assembly for the Modern Language Association of America, January 2003-December, 2005. Co-editor of Studies in Canadian Literature, with John Ball (granted 3 credit course reduction per year for this position), September, 2003-. Presented an Inter-Arts Lecture, “Rethinking Borders: Reading Thomas King and the 49 th Parallel,” UNB Faculty of Arts, November 28, 2002. Co-editor of a special issue of Studies in Canadian Literature on “Past Matters: History and Canadian Fiction,” Volume 27.1, published in September, 2002. External committee member for the hiring of a faculty member in Canadian Studies at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, September 2001-May 2002. Member of the Faculty of Arts Venture Campaign committee, June 2001-. Member of committee responsible for preparing a successful SSHRC Tier II Application, June 2001-April 2002. Speaker at a workshop for the Faculty of Arts on SSHRC Research Grants, at the request of the Assistant Dean, May 7, 2002. Acting editor of Studies in Canadian Literature, September 2001-September 2002. Member of the Executive Committee for the Discussion Group on Canadian Literature in English, Modern Language Association, January 2001-December 2004. Ran a workshop for the Faculty of Arts on the SSHRC Doctoral Application process at the Dean of Graduate Studies’ request, October, 2000, September, 2001, and October, 2002. Member of the Department of English Assessment, Promotion, and Tenure Committee, September, 2000 to June 2001. Member of the Department of English Graduate Committee, September, 2000 to September 2002. Member of the Executive Committee for the Canadian/American Exchange between UNB and the University of Wisconsin at Osh-Kosh, and invited speaker at a September 2000 symposium at Wisconsin to promoted the exchange program. Co-editor of a special issue of Studies in Canadian Literature on “Canadian Literature and the Business of Publishing,” Volume 25.1, published in September, 2000. Department of English Prize Co-ordinator, September 2000-September 2002, September 2003-September 2004. Member of the Canadian Poetry Database editorial board, a national project run by the Electronic Text Centre at UNB, to create a searchable database of pre-twentieth-century English-Canadian poets and their texts that can be sold to libraries internationally, September 1999-May 2002. Member of the Studies in Canadian Literature editorial advisory board, September, 1999-. Member of a National SSHRC Pre-Selection Committee for Doctoral Fellowship Awards, January, 2000, and January, 2001. Thesis Supervisor for three Doctoral students (all SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship recipients) and three Masters students (two successfully defended), Departmental Reader of two Doctoral and five Masters theses, and a Member of the Exam Committee for three Doctoral students, University of New Brunswick, July, 1999-. Member of the Creative Writers and Academic Speakers Reading Series Executive Committee, responsible for arranging visiting readers and selecting the Writer in Residence, Department of English, University of New Brunswick, July, 1999-2002. Faculty liaison for the Albert Ross Memorial English Society, the undergraduate English students club at the University of New Brunswick, July, 1999 to September 2000. Member of the University of New Brunswick Renewal Colloquium Planning Committee, responsible for organizing a university-wide lecture series on the significance of the university today, July, 1999 to June, 2000. Vetter for Essays on Canadian Writing, The Canadian Review of American Studies, Mosaic, International Journal of Canadian Studies, University of Toronto Press, the ASPP, and ACCUTE, March, 2000-. National Graduate Student Representative for the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE), September, 1997 to June, 1998. Departmental representative to the Graduate Students' Union, March, 1996 to April, 1997. Graduate Workshop Co-Co-ordinator for “Policing the Boundaries of Modernity/Anti-Modernism and Artistic Experience,” an art history conference held at the Art Gallery of Ontario, 26-28 April, 1996. President of the Graduate English Association, March, 1995 to April, 1996. Vice President of the Graduate English Association, March, 1994 to March, 1995.
SERVICE
Elected as a representative for the Faculty of Arts on the University of New Brunswick Student Standings and Promotion Committee, November 2003.
Member of the Delegate Assembly for the Modern Language Association of America, January 2003-December, 2005.
Co-editor of Studies in Canadian Literature, with John Ball (granted 3 credit course reduction per year for this position), September, 2003-.
Presented an Inter-Arts Lecture, “Rethinking Borders: Reading Thomas King and the 49 th Parallel,” UNB Faculty of Arts, November 28, 2002.
Co-editor of a special issue of Studies in Canadian Literature on “Past Matters: History and Canadian Fiction,” Volume 27.1, published in September, 2002.
External committee member for the hiring of a faculty member in Canadian Studies at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, September 2001-May 2002.
Member of the Faculty of Arts Venture Campaign committee, June 2001-.
Member of committee responsible for preparing a successful SSHRC Tier II Application, June 2001-April 2002.
Speaker at a workshop for the Faculty of Arts on SSHRC Research Grants, at the request of the Assistant Dean, May 7, 2002.
Acting editor of Studies in Canadian Literature, September 2001-September 2002.
Member of the Executive Committee for the Discussion Group on Canadian Literature in English, Modern Language Association, January 2001-December 2004.
Ran a workshop for the Faculty of Arts on the SSHRC Doctoral Application process at the Dean of Graduate Studies’ request, October, 2000, September, 2001, and October, 2002.
Member of the Department of English Assessment, Promotion, and Tenure Committee, September, 2000 to June 2001.
Member of the Department of English Graduate Committee, September, 2000 to September 2002.
Member of the Executive Committee for the Canadian/American Exchange between UNB and the University of Wisconsin at Osh-Kosh, and invited speaker at a September 2000 symposium at Wisconsin to promoted the exchange program.
Co-editor of a special issue of Studies in Canadian Literature on “Canadian Literature and the Business of Publishing,” Volume 25.1, published in September, 2000.
Department of English Prize Co-ordinator, September 2000-September 2002, September 2003-September 2004.
Member of the Canadian Poetry Database editorial board, a national project run by the Electronic Text Centre at UNB, to create a searchable database of pre-twentieth-century English-Canadian poets and their texts that can be sold to libraries internationally, September 1999-May 2002.
Member of the Studies in Canadian Literature editorial advisory board, September, 1999-.
Member of a National SSHRC Pre-Selection Committee for Doctoral Fellowship Awards, January, 2000, and January, 2001.
Thesis Supervisor for three Doctoral students (all SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship recipients) and three Masters students (two successfully defended), Departmental Reader of two Doctoral and five Masters theses, and a Member of the Exam Committee for three Doctoral students, University of New Brunswick, July, 1999-.
Member of the Creative Writers and Academic Speakers Reading Series Executive Committee, responsible for arranging visiting readers and selecting the Writer in Residence, Department of English, University of New Brunswick, July, 1999-2002.
Faculty liaison for the Albert Ross Memorial English Society, the undergraduate English students club at the University of New Brunswick, July, 1999 to September 2000.
Member of the University of New Brunswick Renewal Colloquium Planning Committee, responsible for organizing a university-wide lecture series on the significance of the university today, July, 1999 to June, 2000.
Vetter for Essays on Canadian Writing, The Canadian Review of American Studies, Mosaic, International Journal of Canadian Studies, University of Toronto Press, the ASPP, and ACCUTE, March, 2000-.
National Graduate Student Representative for the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE), September, 1997 to June, 1998.
Departmental representative to the Graduate Students' Union, March, 1996 to April, 1997.
Graduate Workshop Co-Co-ordinator for “Policing the Boundaries of Modernity/Anti-Modernism and Artistic Experience,” an art history conference held at the Art Gallery of Ontario, 26-28 April, 1996.
President of the Graduate English Association, March, 1995 to April, 1996.
Vice President of the Graduate English Association, March, 1994 to March, 1995.
