Research Area(s)
- Victorian Women’s Writing
- Victorian Feminisms
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Charlotte Yonge
Education
- Ph.D., Department of English, University of Saskatchewan. Doctoral Dissertation: “Some appointed work to do: Gender and Agency in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell. June 2010
- M.A., Department of English, University of Saskatchewan. Master’s Thesis: Chartists and Amazons: Gender and Class in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton and Cranford. August 2004
- B.A. (Honors), Department of English, University of Saskatchewan. May 2002
Selected Publications and Presentations
- ““A very pleasant-looking dragon”: Ethnography, Humor, and Evil in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford.” Evil and Its Variations in the Works of Gaskell: A Sesquicentennial Commemorative Volume. Ed. Mitsuhara Matsuoka. Osaka, JP: Osaka Kyoiku Tosho, 2015
- Place and Progress in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Eds. Lesa Scholl, Emily Morris, and Sarina Gruver Moore. Farnham UK: Ashgate, 2015
- ““For her very life”: Duty, Health, and the Poisonous Atmosphere of Haworth in Elizabeth Gaskell’s The Life of Charlotte Brontë.” Brontë Studies 38.3 (Fall 2013): 185-194
- ““Ready to Hear and to Help”: Female Agency and the Reclamation of the Fallen Woman in Elizabeth Gaskell’s “Lizzie Leigh.”” Gaskell Society Journal 23 (2009): 40-53
Teaching Responsibilities
- English 111: Reading Poetry
- English 112: Reading Drama
- English 113: Reading Narrative
- English 114: Reading Culture
- English 282: Feminist Critical Theory and Literature by Women
- English 334: Prose and Poetry of the Victorian Period
- English 341: The British Novel 1850-1900
Administrative Responsibilities
- Sessional Representative, St. Thomas More College Faculty Committee