About
I am currently an Assistant Professor in English Literature at Saint Mary’s University in Calgary, where I teach a broad range of literature and engage in research primarily related to my area specialties in Early Modern Literature and Digital Humanities.
Before that, I was a Mitacs Postdoctoral Researcher with the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria, and Iter Canada, which facilitates research and teaching in support of Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Studies. I had the pleasure of holding a Joseph-Armand Bombardier SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the same institution, working with the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab and Department of English at UVic.
I was also fortunate to be able to spend a year as a Postdoctoral Researcher on STEMMA (Systems of Transmitting Early Modern and Manuscript Verse) University of Galway, a project analyzing the circulation of poetry in the Early Modern period via computational methods, archival research, and literary study.
I completed my PhD in English Literature at the University of Saskatchewan (August 2022), where my dissertation won USask’s Graduate Thesis Award (Ph.D) in the Fine Arts and Humanities.
My research interests are varied and include everything from the study of Classical texts to Game Studies, but my current research focuses on Renaissance Studies, Classical Reception, and Digital Humanities, with a particular interest in the Verse Letters of John Donne. My published work can be found in Digital Studies/Le champ numérique, Digital Medievalist, and the edited collection Intersectionality in Digital Humanities (Arc Humanities Press 2019), among other places. I also have a forthcoming chapter appearing in New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, published by Iter Press and an article slated to appear Huntington Library Quarterly. My dissertation, “Friendship and Sociability in the Verse Letters of John Donne,” reconsiders these works that make up nearly a sixth of Donne’s poetic canon in light of their nature as literary social artifacts reliant upon specific social circumstances for their critical appreciation. See my CV for a complete list of my publications and presentations.