Pedagogy, Education, and Curriculum Studies | Poetry And Poetics | War And Conflict Studies

University of British Columbia



PhD

I am Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of English Language and Literatures and the Co-ordinated Arts Program. 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 have explored pedagogies of poetry, considering methods for incorporating cultural studies of poetry into the classroom. I am also working on several initiatives to enhance pedagogies for scholarly speaking at UBC, including my TLEF-funded online teaching resource called 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 and Contemporary Literature.

• “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