I am a PhD candidate in the Department of English at Dalhousie University. I study place, poetics, and periodicals.
With the support of a Killam Doctoral Award and a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, my research examines the publication history of Gaspereau Press from 1997 to 2025. I turn to the material output of this period to trace the unique regionalist positioning of Gaspereau’s publishing program, an ethos that both resists and embraces the construction of an Atlantic Canadian character. I draw on book history and textual studies to offer an ecological reading of the press’s relationship to the margin.
I am a Nova Scotia Graduate Scholar and a Provost-Alumni Special Scholar. My MA thesis from Dalhousie traced the circulatory poetics of The Song Fisherman’s Song Sheet, a periodical printed in Halifax, NS in the late 1920’s. I have an Honours BSc in biology with a minor in English from the University of Ottawa.
I have planted trees for many summers. I write poetry, knit, and make textile-poems.
