Department Chair
Office: Seton 519
Phone: 902-457-6727
E-mail: msvu.ca
Research interests:
Canadian literature; post-colonial literatures and theory; feminist, queer, literary/cultural theory and criticism; imperialism in popular fin-de-siecle literature, literature of the First World War.
Her current research projects focus on the relation between the monstrous body knowledge in turn-of-the-century popular horror fiction and on the intersections of queer and feminist theory in the representation of the “fag hag” in popular culture.
Selected publications:
"Mummy Knows Best: Knowledge and the Unknowable in Turn of the Century Mummy Fiction." Horror Studies 1.1 (January 2010).
"Taking (on) Identities: Transvestite Texts in Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy" in Open Letter 3 (Summer 2007): 38-46.
Essays in The Literary Encyclopedia on The Handmaid's Tale: and on Lee Maracle.
"Storying The Borderlands: Liminal Spaces and Narrative Strategies in Lee Maracle’s Ravensong." Creating Community: A Roundtable on Canadian Aboriginal Literatures. Brandon, Manitoba: Bearpaw Publishing. Ed. Jo-Ann Thom and Renate Eigenbrod. 2002.
"A Place to Stand On": (Post)colonial Identity in The Diviners and "The Rain Child". Is Canada Postcolonial? Ed. Laura Moss. Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2002.
"Mirror Images: Anamorphic Reflections in The Handmaid's Tale." The Newsletter of the Margaret Atwood Society 22-23 (1999):7-11.
"'Fence-Climbing Sisterhood': Reading the Escaped Nun Intertext of The Handmaid's Tale." Q/W/E/R/T/Y: Arts, litteratures et civilisations du monde anglophone 8 (October 1998): 118-189.
Recent conference presentations:
"Here be Monsters: Imperialism, Knowledge and the Limits of Empire" (keynote address). III Gothic Congress, Mexico City, March 24, 2010.
“The Monstrous Knowledge of Dr. Fu-Manchu” presented at the International Gothic Association Conference, Lancaster, UK, July 2009.
“Knowing me, Knowing you: The Monstrous European Body in Imperialist Fiction” presented at the ACCUTE conference, Ottawa, On., May 2009.
“Fag Hags and Icons, or, ‘As A Gay Man, I Find Myself Strangely Drawn to You” presented at the Queer Iconography Conference, Hofstra University, Long Island, NY, November 2008.
“Being Self, Being Other: Monstrous Bodies in turn-of –the-century Fiction” presented at the Uncanny Media Conference, Utrech, Netherlands August 2008.
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