Conferences
Presentations
I have given the following papers at academic conferences:
Dark Tunnels (Creative Non-Fiction)
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association (PAMLA), Los Angeles, California, USA, November, 2022.
Jack McClelland and McClelland & Stewart in the 1960s
Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE), Congress of the Social Sciences and the Humanities, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., June 1 - 4, 2019.
Leonard Cohen's Correspondence with Jack McClelland
Leonard Cohen, Our Contemporary? Round Table Panelist. Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures/ L'Association des literatures Canadienne et Quebecois (ACLCQ-ACQL). Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., June 1 - 4, 2019.
Responding to "A Changing Major: the Report of the 2016 - 2017 ADE Ad-hoc Committee on the English Major"
Canadian Association for Chairs of English (CACE). Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., June 1 - 4, 2019.
Alice Munro's Memory Work
Timepieces: The University of Toronto's Centre for Comparative Literature's 29th Annual Conference, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 29 - 31, 2019.
Portrait of a Publisher: Jack McClelland and McClelland & Stewart in 1968
1968 in Canada: A Year and Its Legacies (symposium). Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, September, 2018.
Time and Corporeality in Alice Munro's The Progress of Love
Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures/ L’Association des literatures Canadienne et Quebecois (ALCQ-ACQL). Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Regina, Canada, May 2018.
Boom or Bust: Enrolment Trends and English Departments
Canadian Association for Chairs of English (CACE). Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Regina, Canada
May 2018.
Literary Influences: Margaret Laurence and Clara Thomas (Pecha Kucha)
Resurfacing: Canadian Women Writers in the 1970s. Sackville and Moncton, New Brunswick, April 2018.
Visual Hauntings in Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women and Who Do You Think You Are?
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association (PAMLA), Honolulu, Hawaii, November 2017.
Time in Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women
Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE), Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, May 2017.
Identity and the Athlete: Alexander MacLeod's "Miracle Mile"
Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures/ L’Association des literatures Canadienne et Quebecois (ALCQ-ACQL), Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, May 2017.
Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland: the Development of Canadian Literature in Letters
Presented with Linda M. Morra, Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures/ L’Association des literatures Canadienne et Quebecois (ALCQ-ACQL), Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Calgary, Calgary Alberta, Canada, May 2016.
Writing for Creative Repurposing: Assessing Transferability in a New Writing Course (Poster Presentation)
Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Houston, Texas, USA, April 2016.
The Story of Writing a Textbook
Campus Alberta Writing Studies Colloquium (CAWS), Calgary, Alberta, Canada, April 2015.
The Letters of Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland: Public and National Identities in Transit
Presented with Linda M. Morra, International Association for the Study of Biography and Autobiography (IABA), Banff, Alberta, Canada. May 2014.
Aging, Coming of Age, and Canadian Settler-Descendent Identities in Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel and A Bird in the House
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), San Diego, CA, USA. November 2013.
A Fair Exchange: Debt and Repayment in Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel
The Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE), Congress of the Social Sciences and the Humanities, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., June 2013.
Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners: An Allegory for the Canadian Nation
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), Seattle, WA, October 2012.
Hockey in the Canadian Imagination: Three Books on Hockey in History, Literature, and Culture
Popular Culture Association (PCA), Boston, MA, April 2012.
Margaret Laurence’s Africa in The Tomorrow-Tamer and Other Stories
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association (PAMLA), Honolulu, Hawaii, November 2010.
Community and the Canadian Nation in Margaret Laurence’s A Bird in the House
Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures/ L’Association des literatures Canadienne et Quebecois (ALCQ-ACQL), Congress of the Social Sciences and the Humanities. Concordia University, Montreal, PQ, May 2010.
White-Skinned Primate: Constructions of the Human and the Monstrous in Images on and about Jane Goodall
Monsters and the Monstrous, Inter-disciplinary.net Conference, Mansfield College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, September 2009.
Jane Goodall in the Anglo-Imperial Imagination
Popular Culture Association (PCA) National Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2009.
Margaret Laurence’s Correspondence
The Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE), Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, York University, Toronto, Ontario, May 2006.
The Essays of Margaret Laurence’s Heart of a Stranger in the Context of their Magazine Publications
The Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE), Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 2004.
Toward a Politics of Decolonization: Destabilizing Identities in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient and Ann Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knees”
The Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures/ L’Association des literatures Canadienne et Quebecois (ALCQ-ACQL), Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities,University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 2004.
Margaret Laurence in Africa: Conflicts of Culture and Gender in The Prophet’s Camel Bell
Association of Canadian and Quebec Literature/ L’Association des literatures Canadienne et Quebecois (ALCQ-ACQL), Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities,University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, May 2002.
Strategies of Resistance: Re-membering Silence and Speech in Joy Kogawa’s Obasan
The Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE). Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, May 2002.
Multiculturalism, the Redress Movement, and the Canadian Nation in Joy Kogawa’s Obasan and Itsuka
The British Association of Canadian Studies/ Association of Canadian Studies in Ireland Joint Annual Conference, Networks: Community, Culture, and Change, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, April 2002.
Nostalgic Identities: Configuring Kenya in Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa and Beryl Markham’s
West with the Night
Literary Studies and Global Culture: an Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., March 2001.
Dark Tunnels (Creative Non-Fiction)
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association (PAMLA), Los Angeles, California, USA, November, 2022.
Jack McClelland and McClelland & Stewart in the 1960s
Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE), Congress of the Social Sciences and the Humanities, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., June 1 - 4, 2019.
Leonard Cohen's Correspondence with Jack McClelland
Leonard Cohen, Our Contemporary? Round Table Panelist. Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures/ L'Association des literatures Canadienne et Quebecois (ACLCQ-ACQL). Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., June 1 - 4, 2019.
Responding to "A Changing Major: the Report of the 2016 - 2017 ADE Ad-hoc Committee on the English Major"
Canadian Association for Chairs of English (CACE). Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., June 1 - 4, 2019.
Alice Munro's Memory Work
Timepieces: The University of Toronto's Centre for Comparative Literature's 29th Annual Conference, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 29 - 31, 2019.
Portrait of a Publisher: Jack McClelland and McClelland & Stewart in 1968
1968 in Canada: A Year and Its Legacies (symposium). Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, September, 2018.
Time and Corporeality in Alice Munro's The Progress of Love
Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures/ L’Association des literatures Canadienne et Quebecois (ALCQ-ACQL). Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Regina, Canada, May 2018.
Boom or Bust: Enrolment Trends and English Departments
Canadian Association for Chairs of English (CACE). Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Regina, Canada
May 2018.
Literary Influences: Margaret Laurence and Clara Thomas (Pecha Kucha)
Resurfacing: Canadian Women Writers in the 1970s. Sackville and Moncton, New Brunswick, April 2018.
Visual Hauntings in Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women and Who Do You Think You Are?
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association (PAMLA), Honolulu, Hawaii, November 2017.
Time in Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women
Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE), Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, May 2017.
Identity and the Athlete: Alexander MacLeod's "Miracle Mile"
Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures/ L’Association des literatures Canadienne et Quebecois (ALCQ-ACQL), Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, May 2017.
Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland: the Development of Canadian Literature in Letters
Presented with Linda M. Morra, Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures/ L’Association des literatures Canadienne et Quebecois (ALCQ-ACQL), Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Calgary, Calgary Alberta, Canada, May 2016.
Writing for Creative Repurposing: Assessing Transferability in a New Writing Course (Poster Presentation)
Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Houston, Texas, USA, April 2016.
The Story of Writing a Textbook
Campus Alberta Writing Studies Colloquium (CAWS), Calgary, Alberta, Canada, April 2015.
The Letters of Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland: Public and National Identities in Transit
Presented with Linda M. Morra, International Association for the Study of Biography and Autobiography (IABA), Banff, Alberta, Canada. May 2014.
Aging, Coming of Age, and Canadian Settler-Descendent Identities in Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel and A Bird in the House
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), San Diego, CA, USA. November 2013.
A Fair Exchange: Debt and Repayment in Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel
The Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE), Congress of the Social Sciences and the Humanities, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., June 2013.
Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners: An Allegory for the Canadian Nation
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), Seattle, WA, October 2012.
Hockey in the Canadian Imagination: Three Books on Hockey in History, Literature, and Culture
Popular Culture Association (PCA), Boston, MA, April 2012.
Margaret Laurence’s Africa in The Tomorrow-Tamer and Other Stories
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association (PAMLA), Honolulu, Hawaii, November 2010.
Community and the Canadian Nation in Margaret Laurence’s A Bird in the House
Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures/ L’Association des literatures Canadienne et Quebecois (ALCQ-ACQL), Congress of the Social Sciences and the Humanities. Concordia University, Montreal, PQ, May 2010.
White-Skinned Primate: Constructions of the Human and the Monstrous in Images on and about Jane Goodall
Monsters and the Monstrous, Inter-disciplinary.net Conference, Mansfield College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, September 2009.
Jane Goodall in the Anglo-Imperial Imagination
Popular Culture Association (PCA) National Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2009.
Margaret Laurence’s Correspondence
The Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE), Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, York University, Toronto, Ontario, May 2006.
The Essays of Margaret Laurence’s Heart of a Stranger in the Context of their Magazine Publications
The Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE), Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 2004.
Toward a Politics of Decolonization: Destabilizing Identities in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient and Ann Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knees”
The Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures/ L’Association des literatures Canadienne et Quebecois (ALCQ-ACQL), Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities,University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 2004.
Margaret Laurence in Africa: Conflicts of Culture and Gender in The Prophet’s Camel Bell
Association of Canadian and Quebec Literature/ L’Association des literatures Canadienne et Quebecois (ALCQ-ACQL), Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities,University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, May 2002.
Strategies of Resistance: Re-membering Silence and Speech in Joy Kogawa’s Obasan
The Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE). Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, May 2002.
Multiculturalism, the Redress Movement, and the Canadian Nation in Joy Kogawa’s Obasan and Itsuka
The British Association of Canadian Studies/ Association of Canadian Studies in Ireland Joint Annual Conference, Networks: Community, Culture, and Change, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, April 2002.
Nostalgic Identities: Configuring Kenya in Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa and Beryl Markham’s
West with the Night
Literary Studies and Global Culture: an Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., March 2001.
Public Lectures
I have given the following lectures for public audiences.
Hidden Stories: Celebrating New Books by RDC Faculty
A public lecture with Jenna Butler and Jeff Wigelsworth on the books we wrote in our respective disciplines, English and History, funded by CAT (Cultural Activities Trust Fund) at Red Deer College, September 2018.
Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland, Letters, and Home Ice: a Book Launch
A public reading on the launch of my book and a memoir by Angie Abdou, Sunworks: Practitioners of Good Taste, Red Deer, Alberta, September 2018.
Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada
A public reading on the launch of my book by the same title, at Sunworks: Practitioners of Good Taste, Red Deer, Alberta, August 2017.
Social Work Ethics, Metis Pioneers, and Margaret Laurence
A public lecture with Elaine Spencer and Doris MacKinnon on the books we wrote in our respective disciplines, Social Work, History, and English, funded by CAT (Cultural Activities Trust Fund) at Red Deer College, September 2017.
Margaret Atwood, Creativity, and Stone Mattress
A public lecture Presented at the Red Deer Public Library, sponsored by the Friends of the Red Deer Public Library, Red Deer, March 2015.
Homework: the Creation of Textbooks
A public lecture with Roger Davis about the writing of Essay Writing for Canadian Students, funded by CAT (Cultural Activities Trust Fund) at Red Deer College. March 2012.
Ghosts, Monsters, and Other Wilde Things
A public lecture with Nancy E. Batty and Heather Marcovitch to launch The Monster Imagined and two other books, funded by CAT (Cultural Activities Trust Fund) at Red Deer College. March 2010.
Hidden Stories: Celebrating New Books by RDC Faculty
A public lecture with Jenna Butler and Jeff Wigelsworth on the books we wrote in our respective disciplines, English and History, funded by CAT (Cultural Activities Trust Fund) at Red Deer College, September 2018.
Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland, Letters, and Home Ice: a Book Launch
A public reading on the launch of my book and a memoir by Angie Abdou, Sunworks: Practitioners of Good Taste, Red Deer, Alberta, September 2018.
Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada
A public reading on the launch of my book by the same title, at Sunworks: Practitioners of Good Taste, Red Deer, Alberta, August 2017.
Social Work Ethics, Metis Pioneers, and Margaret Laurence
A public lecture with Elaine Spencer and Doris MacKinnon on the books we wrote in our respective disciplines, Social Work, History, and English, funded by CAT (Cultural Activities Trust Fund) at Red Deer College, September 2017.
Margaret Atwood, Creativity, and Stone Mattress
A public lecture Presented at the Red Deer Public Library, sponsored by the Friends of the Red Deer Public Library, Red Deer, March 2015.
Homework: the Creation of Textbooks
A public lecture with Roger Davis about the writing of Essay Writing for Canadian Students, funded by CAT (Cultural Activities Trust Fund) at Red Deer College. March 2012.
Ghosts, Monsters, and Other Wilde Things
A public lecture with Nancy E. Batty and Heather Marcovitch to launch The Monster Imagined and two other books, funded by CAT (Cultural Activities Trust Fund) at Red Deer College. March 2010.