Professor of English; Graduate Faculty; Undergraduate Instructor; Senior Fellow, Massey College
Maanjiwe nendamowinan Building, Room 5256, 1535 Outer Circle, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6. Jackman Humanities Building, Room 914, 170 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5R 2M8
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
- Mississauga (UTM)
Fields of Study
- Creative Writing (MA)
- Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
Areas of Interest
- Restoration and Eighteenth Century
- Twentieth Century British
- Creative Writing
Office Hours
Tuesdays 12:00pm-1:00pm and Thursdays 11:00am-1:00pm
Publications
Dante's House. Signal Editions, 2013.
Edith Sitwell: Avant Garde Poet, English Genius. London: Virago, 2011.
Boxing the Compass. Montreal: Signal Editions, 2009.
Ed. Graham Greene: A Life in Letters. London: Little, Brown, 2007; Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2007; New York: W. W. Norton, 2008.
Crossing the Straits. Toronto: St Thomas, 2004.
Co-ed. The Works of Mary Leapor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Ed. Selected Letters of Edith Sitwell. London: Virago, 1997; rev. ed. 1998.
Republic of Solitude: Poems 1984-1994. St. John’s: Breakwater, 1994.
Mary Leapor: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Women's Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Honours
2010 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry
Education
Hons. BA, Memorial University of Newfoundland
D.Phil, University of Oxford