The world is an astonishing place, and the idea that we have in our possession the basic tools needed to understand it is no more credible now than it was in Aristotle's day.
Thomas Nagel
Everyday life embodies an energy which can move mountains and abolish distances.
Raoul Vaneigem
There's nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.
Octavia Butler

How does literature matter?

This website explores ideas that I and my colleagues and students are pursuing about what engages us with literature and what the literary cultivation of empathy can mean in poetics and education.

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On Reading

An evolving research project on ecologies of reading: we try to learn more about how people read, and in particular, how literature is experienced in university coursework in relation to what instructors hope students will gain from it.

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On Wonder

Writings on wonder as an experience of moral extravagance.

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About Me

Take a look at my quick info for more about me and what projects I supervise. Or see my Queen's University profile page. For curiosities in visual media, go to my in-progress site, the wonder cabinet.