I am an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Department of English Language and Literatures and Director of the First-Year and Interdisciplinary Programs (FYIP). My research has generally focused on contemporary American poetry and its relation to crisis and memory; more recently, my scholarship has turned toward pedagogy and I am exploring pedagogies of poetry, considering methods for incorporating cultural studies of poetry into the classroom. I am also working on several initiatives to promote equity in scholarly communication at UBC, including through the development of my TLEF-funded online teaching resource the PASS (Precedents Archive for Scholarly Speaking). I have articles published in English Studies in Canada, Memory Studies, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Pedagogy, Contemporary Literature, Discourse and Writing/ Rédactologie, College English, and the Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. I am a proud recipient of a 2023 Killam Teaching Prize.

• “Community Engaged Learning in Challenging Contexts: Introducing and Assessing a Flexible Model for CEL in a First Year Cohort Program,” The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Forthcoming. 35 manuscript pages. (with Mathurada Jullamon and Marianne El-Mikati)
• “’Enough of osseous and chickadee’”: Pedagogies of Hate in the Poetry Classroom,” College English. vol 86, no. 4, 2024, pp.280-296
• “Speaking Against Inequity in the Writing Classroom: Challenging the Performance Paradigm for Undergraduate Oral Presentations” (with Craig Stensrud). Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie. Vol. 32, 2022, pp. 335-355.
• “The Conceptual Poet as Witness.” Contemporary Literature, vol. 61, no. 4, 2021, pp. 505-529.
• “Beyond Dead Poet’s Society: Cultural Criticism and Conceptual Poetry in the University Classroom.”  Pedagogy, vol. 20, no. 3, 2020, pp. 499-521.
• “Toward a New Poetics of Witness: Juliana Spahr’s This Connection of Everyone with Lungs.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, vol. 26, no. 1, 2017, pp. 175-200.
• “Poetry as Monument: Jenny Holzer and the Memorial Poems of 9/11.” Memory Studies, vol. 8, no. 2, 2015, pp.183-196.
• “Remounting, Remembering: Gendered Memorials and Colleen Wagner’s The Monument.” English Studies in Canada, vol. 35, no .4, 2009, pp. 71-94.
• Ragtime for Beginners: Poems. Killick, 2008