Research Interests
Contemporary literature, comics and graphic novels, manga, intermediality, nonsense literature, horror and gothic, adaptation studies, feminist studies
Awards and Recognition
Queen’s University Teaching Fellow (2020)
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2017-2018)
June McMaster-Harrison Memorial Prize (2013)
Recently published a chapter, titled “Establishing Canon through Transmedial Narrative Strategies from Television to Comics: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and the Morphin Grid” (Polyptych: Adaptation, Television, and Comics, Vernon Press)
Dissertation
This dissertation, titled “(Re)Defining Nonsense Literature as an Intermedial Genre”, focuses on expanding and recontextualizing the definition of literary nonsense as an intermedial genre and examines how the process of storyworld making is impacted by this change in definition; in addition, a taxonomy of nonsense creatures is established. The oeuvre of literary nonsense is discussed in the context of format and underrepresented creators, including women and persons of colour.
Additional Information
TESL Ontario (Accredited Member)
