I’m thrilled to have just published an article in the magazine Eighteen Bridges, based out of Edmonton. My article, “Walmart in Whitehorse: searching for culture in a consumerist paradise,” is a sneak peak at some of the work that I’ve been doing toward my next book, which is called Malled: The Cultures of Shopping in Canada. Please find the article here. A big thank you to the folks at Eighteen Bridges for making space for this work!
I was thrilled recently to host the 2017 Kreisel Lecture at the University of Alberta’s Canadian Literature Centre. This year’s lecture, the eleventh in the series, was delivered by Canada…
I’m profoundly grateful to the editors of the journal Public, and particularly special issue editors Sean O’Brien, Imre Szeman, and Eva-Lynn Jagoe, for making space for an interview with me…
It’s an honour to have served as the press editor for 59 Glass Bridges, the first novel just published by Steven Peters. Editing this deeply imaginative, at-times surreal and…
The Carriage Station: Print History Workshop has been engaged in supporting and fostering poetry in the community, most recently by supporting Pop-up Poetry events. And now, University Affairs has taken…
Thanks to everyone who made it out today at Mount Royal University to the English program’s pop-up poetry event! Featuring derek beaulieu, Beth Everest, Richard Harrison, Micheline Maylor, Natalie Meisner,…
The Carriage Station: Print History Workshop is a space designed to celebrate print culture and writing. Housed in Mount Royal University’s Faculty of Arts, the Carriage Station is a repository…
Thank you to everyone who attended the conference Maladies of the Soul, Emotion, Affect: Indigenous, Canadian, and Québécois Writings in the Crossfire of a New Turn! This conference was held…
I’m very glad to have had the opportunity to contribute to the edited collection Ten Canadian Writers in Context, edited by Marie Carrière, Curtis Gillespie, and Jason Purcell and published…
I’m honoured to be the 2016 winner of the Rita and Charles Bronfman Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award is given for outstanding teaching in McGill’s Institute for the…