Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Areas of Interest
- Victorian Studies
- Modernism
- Theories of the Novel
- Moral Psychology
- Marxism and Literature
Biography
My research turns to the nineteenth and early twentieth century to examine what is now a blindly accepted, almost inevitable, facet of our economic lives: the fact of having a boss. My endeavor is to understand and historicize the concepts of the supervisor, the manager, and the boss within the emergence of industrial and post-industrial labor networks. I'm especially interested in thinking about the contradictions between the proliferation of bosses alongside the emergence of liberal-democratic values. I'm also exploring the way that novel reading, especially in cases of omniscient narration, embeds hierarchical labor structures into its very ontological framework.
List of Publications
“Queer Families, Queer Futures in Dombey and Son,” Dickens Studies Annual, 2021-03-01, Vol. 52, p. 30-52; Pennsylvania State University Press