PhD, Language, Culture and Teaching, York University:
MA, Education, Simon Fraser University;
BA, English and Women’s Studies, Trent University

Artists and writers are always re-imagining the potential of information technologies, often using them against the grain of their original intention. My research is broadly concerned with the aesthetic and political efficacy of our everyday practices in those places where art, literature, and social activism meet. I am currently working toward the completion of two book-length studies: a collection of essays investigating archival genres, affective structures, and memory; and a media history tracing the aesthetic, political, and spatial/temporal changes driven by copying machines in the second half of the twentieth century.

Creating new and productive models of knowledge production and artistic and literary inquiry is an integral part of my work as a researcher, educator, and cultural worker. As an educator, I seek to stage encounters between writers, artists, curators, and students both on campus and in the community. As a researcher, I participate in many of the cultural organizations and social movements at the center of my research. Most notably, in addition to writing about the small press, I am actively engaged in the small press as an author and editor. These interventions reflect a commitment to promoting reciprocity and fostering strategic alliances between the university and community-based organizations in all aspects of my work. 

• LCST 2211, Museums, Archives and Identity

• LCST 2450, Introduction to Media Studies

• LFYW 1000, Texts and Technology

• LCST 3029, Discourse and Difference

• LNGC 1464, City Passages: 19th-century Paris, 21st-century New York

• LFYW 1000, Ugly Feelings: Affects and Public Culture

“Past Performance, Present Dilemma: A Poetics of Archiving Sound.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, 42 (2009).

“Notes on an Investigation with Selections from Forensic Vernacular .” Cultural Studies < = > Critical Methodologies (2009).

“Archival Genres: Gathering Texts and Reading Spaces.” Invisible Culture, 12 (Spring 2008) (Online journal).  

“Breach of Copy/rights: The University Copy District as Abject Zone.” Public Culture, 18 (2006), 551-571.

“Re-in/citing Linguistic Injuries:  Speech Acts, Cyberhate, and the Spatial and Temporal Character of Networked Environments.” Computers and Composition: An International Journal for Teachers of English, 18, (2001), 293-304.

“Sites Unseen: Ethnographic Research in a Textual Community.” International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 14, (2001), 565-578.

Books and Journals

As co-editor. Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women’s Poetry and Poetics. Edited collection. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2009.

As co-editor. “Beyond Stasis: Poetics and Feminism Today.” Special issue of Open Letter (Summer 2009).

As co-author and editor.  Belladonna Elders Series Vol. 6.  Prose and interviews. New York: Belladonna Books, 2009.

As author. Fond. Poetry. Toronto: BookThug, 2008.

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Archives; affect theory; discourse analysis; feminist poetics; digital poetics; politics of cultural production; book and media history; public culture.

Review Editor, Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies

Adjunct Professor, Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, York University

Member, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing

June 2009. “Defining ‘Eligible Books.’” SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing), University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.

March 2009. “Telling by Not Telling:  Silence, Poetics and the Law in M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!” American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Harvard University, Boston, MA.

March 2009. “Reading the Recipe Box: Archives, Memory and Embodied Knowledge.” Women in the Archives, Brown University, Providence, RI.

October 2008.  “Feminist Discourses in Semi Public Spaces.” Southern Connecticut State University Annual Women’s Studies Conference, New Haven, Connecticut.

July 2008. “Sounding the Archive: Preserving Poetry in Performance.” Archive Fervour /Archive Further: Literature, Archives, and Literary Archives, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK.

June 2008. “Book History and Theory.” SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, reading and Publishing), Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK.

September 2007. “Blogging Poetics:  The Circulation and Reception of Poetry in the Blogosphere.” Beyond the Book Conference, Birmingham, UK.

July 2007. “‘Personal Disclosure Pamphlets’ and Public Discourse: Zines in the Library.” SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing) Minneapolis, MI.

October 2006.  “Poster Wars: Carbon Copies in Public Spaces.” Humanities Technology Association, CUNY, New York, NY.