PEDAGOGY

I teach literature and literary theory through interdisciplinary methods that creatively engage and respond to our changing world. In my courses, the classroom extends out into the city, and literature and literary culture become ways to understand, to challenge, and to remake that world.

My areas of expertise and interest are Canadian literature and Indigenous literature as read through critical lenses of feminist theory, affect and phenomenology, decolonization, textualizing orality, media and archives, sound studies, and performance studies. Drawing upon my experience producing audio for The SpokenWeb Podcast and publishing on literary audio, my course designs increasingly integrate new modes of publishing, digital humanities, podcasting, and public humanities.

Courses Taught at Concordia University (2015-2026)

ENGL 662 New Methods of Scholarly Publishing – The Podcast (Winter 2024)
ENGL 453 Advanced Studies in Canadian Writing, “Adapt / Remix / Remake” (Fall 2022)
ENGL 453 Advanced Studies in Canadian Writing: “Performing the Archive” (Fall 2017)
ENGL 3811 Critical Perspectives in Settler Colonialism (Fall 2025)
ENGL 380 Indigenous Literatures (Summer 2026)
ENGL 3790 Canadian Fiction (Winter 2026)
ENGL 379 Contemporary Canadian Poetry (Fall 2022; Fall 2023)
ENGL 378 Modern Canadian Poetry (Fall 2015; Fall 2017; Winter 2025)
ENGL 377 Contemporary Canadian Fiction (Fall 2024; Winter 2025)
ENGL 374 20^th Century Canadian Literature (Winter 2026)
ENGL 374 Canadian Fiction to 1950 (Winter 2016; Winter 2017; Winter 2018) 
ENGL 373 19^th Century Canadian Literature (Fall 2025)
ENGL 370 Canadian Literature (Fall-Winter 2015-2016; Fall-Winter 2016-2017; Fall-Winter 2017-2018) 
ENGL 354 Studies in Contemporary Literature (Fall 2023)
ENGL 260 Intro to Literary Study (Fall 2015; Winter 2016; Summer 2016; Fall 2016; Winter 2017; Summer 2017; Fall 2018; Fall
2024; Winter 2025) 
ENGL 244 Quebec/Montreal Literature in English (Fall 2018; Winter 2019; Fall 2022; Fall 2023; Winter 2024; Fall 2024; Winter 2025; Fall 2025; Winter 2026) 
ENGL 234 Comedy (Fall 2019; Winter 2024) 
ENGL 233 Critical Reading (Fall 2017; Winter 2018) 

Highlights [above photo collage] from teaching as an LTA in Canadian Literature at Concordia University (2015-2018; 2022-2026): a guest reading by poet Erin Robinsong (Rag Cosmology) about poetry’s capacity to respond to climate change and to inhabit ecological thinking; a panel that I organized for my undergraduate students as a way to share the papers that they had produced for my upper-year seminar, Performing Literary Archives: ENGL 453 Advanced Studies in Canadian Writing; and a group photo with those same undergraduate students after they brilliantly presented their work at Concordia’s Off the Page Festival (March 17, 2018).

A highlight from teaching ENGL 244 Quebec/Montreal Writing in English (Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 at Concordia) was organizing an in-class reading by Kaie Kellough. The above photo shows Kellough reading from his experimental Montreal-based novel Accordéon, followed by a reading from Magnetic Equator. The reading was called “Sounding the City” and it was co-sponsored by Concordia’s Writers Read and SpokenWeb (April 12, 2019).