Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- American Literature
- Environmental Humanities
- Literary and Critical Theory
- Poetry and Poetics
- The Novel
- Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature
Areas of Interest
- Environmental Literature
- Ecocriticism
- Critical Theory
- Food Systems
- Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies
- Environmental Humanities
- Climate Justice
- Poetry
- The Novel
- Film Studies
- Protest Literature
- Philosophy and Literature
- Contemporary Literature
- Shakespeare.
Biography
I study calls to ecological conscience in different literary genres – from novels and poetry to films and protest documents. Engaging with Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass as origin story, science writing, ecological theory, and personal memoir, I focus on ethics of ecology and relation in contemporary novels such as The Overstory and Barkskins, the poetry of Whitman, Mary Oliver, Joy Harjo, and Jorie Graham, films (both documentary and narrative), and local environmental protest literature defending U of T’s own “Back Campus.” My work with Earthsongs, a community gardening and poetry project, seeks to mix material experiences of plants, soil, and food with poetic reimagination of earth-relations, stewardship, and, interspecies communities.
List of Publications
- “The Tree-Sound Chora of Toni Morrison’s Beloved,” in Canadian Review of American Studies (forthcoming).
- Review of Tim Lilburn's Numinous Seditions: Interiority and Climate Change, University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 94, no. 3, September 2025.
- Editor-In-Chief, Oxford Research in English, 2018-2019, 2 semi-annual issues (introductions)
Education
Cohort
- 2021-2022