Education​

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 Ph.D. English, University of Alberta, Canada (2006)

• Dissertation: Writing Africa, Writing Canada: Anti-Imperialism and​​ Feminism in the Work of Margaret Laurence
• Committee: Dr. Nora Foster Stovel (supervisor); Dr. Ono Okome (reader); Dr. Paul Hjartarson (reader); Dr. Susan Smith (History Department, reader)
• External Examiner: Dr. Diana Brydon, Canada Research Chair, University of Manitoba

M.A. English, University of Victoria, Canada (1998)

• Thesis: Contingency as Form: The Poetics of Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop
• Supervisor: Dr. Luke B. Carson​

B.A. English, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (1993)   

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."
Sydney J. Harris

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​Current Academic Position

Full Time Continuous Appointment (tenure), Red Deer Polytechnic, Alberta, Canada

• Chair of Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, July 1, 2018 - July 1, 2020
• Head of Program of English July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018
• Sabbatical, July 1, 2016 - July 1, 2017
• Head of Program of English July 1, 2014 - July 1, 2016
• Tenure track ​since August 2008; tenured since April 2011

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Continuing Education

Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing, Faculty of Media, Creative Arts, and Design, Humber Polytechnic, Toronto, Canada (2025)
​Pacific Northwest Great Teachers Seminar, Menucha, Corbett, Oregon (2024, 2009) ​
Excellence in Teaching and Learning Program, Red Deer Polytechnic (2013 - 2016)
Introduction to Online Teaching and Learning, Red Deer Polytechnic (2015)
Instructional Skills Workshop, Red Deer Polytechnic (2008)
Writing Across the Curriculum Workshop: Developing Writing Intensive Courses, University of Alberta (2008)
Graduate Teaching and Learning Program (formerly the University Teaching Program), University of Alberta (2002)

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