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Welcome

I am the McCulloch Professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University, where I am also cross-appointed to the Gender and Women’s Studies Program. My teaching covers American literature, popular culture, science fiction, and theory. My research pivots around nineteenth-century American literature, but my work on popular culture and specific genres has taken me into the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, and into other national literatures in English. Methodologically, my scholarship has generally focused on theories of identity (especially critical theories of gender and race, as well as queer theory).  

I have served in the past as president of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English, the Canadian Association for American Studies, and as co-president of the International Gothic Association.

You can navigate the site using the links below. you can see some of my past syllabi (under “Teaching) and my research (under “Books” and “CV”; the latter also lists details of my academic service).

The Broadview Anthology of Science Fiction, now available! Click the cover to go to the press site!