Graduate English Society

Research Interests: 19th and 20th century literary modernism(s); poetry and poetics; Baudelaire and T.S. Eliot; nihilism; Nietzsche; critical theory; theories of modernity and space; cosmopolitanism; the modern city; literature of addiction; pedagogy. 

Research:
R.A. Queen’s Disraeli Project, Sept. 2007-April 2009
Visiting Scholar, Vanderbilt University, W.T. Bandy Centre Fellow for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies: Sept. 2009-Dec. 2009

Teaching Position: T.F. ENG 245F: Modern British Poetry and Drama.   Sept. 2011-Dec. 2011
 
Papers:

“The Good Europeans: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Immoralism in Nietzsche, Baudelaire, Wilde”; Works in Progress; Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; September 2006 (Graduate Colloquium)

“The Ethics and Aesthetics of Immoralism: Nietzsche, Baudelaire, Wilde”; ‘Art Made Tongue-Tied By Authority’: Expression, Suppression, and Censorship; University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; September 2007 (Conference Paper)

“The Burden of Selfhood: Ethics and the Logic of Narcosis”; Works in Progress; Queen’s, University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; January 2008 (Graduate Colloquium)

“Diverse Objects and Labyrinthine Pathways: The Urban Muse in De Quincey’s Confessions”; 16th Annual NASSR Conference: Romantic Diversity; University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; August 2008 (Conference Paper)

“Thinking The Nothing: Nihilism in The Waste Land”; T.S. Eliot Society Annual Meeting, Emergent Scholars Seminar; St. Louis, Missouri, USA.; September 2008 (Seminar Paper)

“‘The Civilization of Luggage’: Changing Places and Spaces in Howards End”; Modernist Studies Association X: Modernism and Global Media; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; November 2008 (Seminar Paper).

“The Deed is Dead: Ethics in The Waste Land”; Louisville Conference on Culture and Literature since 1900; University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA; February 2009 (Conference Paper).

“Aesthetics in Miniature: Baudelaire’s ‘Philosophy of Toys’”; The Artfulness of Play; University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada; September 2009 (Conference Paper).

“Everywhere and Nowhere: Urban Alienation and The Cosmopolitan Flaneur”; Modernist Studies Association XI: The Languages of Modernism; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; November 2009 (Seminar Paper).

“’Conscience dans le mal’: Ethics in The Poet of Evil”; W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; November 2009 (Bandy Fellow Research Presentation).

“The Painter of Modern Life as Painter of Manners: Locating Ethics in Baudelaire’s Definition of Aesthetic modernité”; Inaugural Literatures of Modernity Symposium; Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; March 2010 (Conference Paper).

“Unreal City and ‘The Thing Itself’: The Quotidian Horror of Post-War London, Circa 1922, in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land”; Interwar/International: Reading the 1920s and 1930s; New York University; March 2011 (Conference Paper).

“The Unseen Eyebeam”: Experience’s Self-Consuming Limits in T.S. Eliot’s “Burnt Norton”; The Indiscernible Graduate Conference; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; April 2011 (Conference Paper). Forthcoming.

Book Reviews:

Review of Theories of Modernist Poetry: T.S. Eliot, T.E. Hulme, Ezra Pound by Rebecca Beasley (Routledge UP). Times Present. Fall 2009. 8-10.

Review of Under Pressure: Rescuing Our Children from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting by Carl Honoré (Harper One). Queen’s Pedagogy Commons. 1.1. 1-5.

Book Chapters: “Thinking The Nothing: Nihilism in The Waste Land”. The Waste Land (ed. Joe Moffet; Kentucky: Westport, CT: Dialogue , 2011). Forthcoming.