* Canadian literature, especially of the long nineteenth century

* Literary cartography, geopoetics, geocriticism

* Natural history, nature writing, ecocriticism

* Colonialism, settlement; Treaty relationships 

Courses Taught: 

ENGL 102 -- Critical Analysis

ENGL 103 -- Case Studies in Research

ENGL 122 – Texts and Contexts: Literature and Everyday Life 

ENGL 124 – Literary Analysis 

ENGL 209 -- Reading Histories: Making Readers

ENGL 219 – Poetics and Narrative Theory

ENGL 373 – Canadian Literature and Colonization: Contact to 1900 

ENGL 374 – Early-Twentieth-Century Canadian Literature

ENGL 376 – Late-Twentieth-Century Canadian Literature 

ENGL 407 – Studies in Canadian Literature: Literary Cartographies 

ENGL 430 – Studies in Theory: Spatialities 

ENGL 591 – Studies in Canadian Literature: Maps, Literature, and the Negotiation of Space

ENGL 591 -- Studies in Canadian Literature: Nature, Wilderness, Ecology

ENGL 800/801 – PhD Colloquium