Research Area(s)

  • Victorian literature
  • disability studies
  • children’s literature

Education

  • B.A. Hons, University of Regina
  • M.A., University of Saskatchewan
  • Ph.D., University of Victoria

Research Projects

  • Embodied Victorian Theologies: Incarnation and Disability in Victorian Periodicals

Selected Publications and Presentations

Publications

  • “Constructing the Disabled Poetess: The Reception and Poetics of Frances Browne.” Poetess Debates Forum. Victorian Review 48.2  (Fall 2022): pp. 166-170. Equally and jointly co-authored with Caley Ehnes.
  • “Disability.” In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing. Edited by Lesa Scholl and Emily Morris, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer International Publishing, 2019. pp. 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02721-6_152-1
  • Articulating Bodies: The Narrative Form of Disability and Disease in Victorian Fiction, Liverpool University Press, 2019.
  • “Interdependence, Incarnation and Disability in Charlotte Yonge’s The Pillars of the House.” Journal of Disability and Religion. 22.2 (2018): 187-198.
  • “Collaborative Knowledge and Merging Media: Teaching Victorian Periodical Print Using Digital Tools.” Digital Pedagogies: Building Learning Communities for Studying Victorian Periodicals. Spec. issue of Victorian Periodicals Review 48.2 (2015): 197–215. Equally and jointly co-authored with Caley Ehnes.
  • “Prostheses and Narrative Perspective in Dinah Mulock Craik’s The Little Lame Prince.” Re-evaluating Dinah Mulock Craik. Spec. issue of Women’s Writing 20.2 (2013): 370–86.
  • “‘Skins to Jump Into’: The Slipperiness of Identity and the Body in Wilkie Collins’s No Name.” Victorian Literature and Culture 40.1 (2012): 117–35.

Teaching Responsibilities

  • ENG 114 Reading Culture: Disability in Culture (a Community Service-Learning course)
  • ENG 230 Literature for Children
  • ENG 341 British Novel 1850 to 1900
  • ENG 334 Victorian Prose & Poetry