The Canadian Modernist Magazines Project (CMMP) will be a digital repository of modernist periodical literature published in Canada (ca. 1900-1960). The project’s primary aim is to digitize and transcribe a selection of Canadian literary “little magazines” so that they can be read, searched, downloaded, analyzed, and taught. As a repository of Canadian modernist periodicals, the CMMP will make important but …
Mapping Alcohol Consumption in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “May Day”: A Digital Critical Edition
Mapping Alcohol Consumption in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “May Day”: A Digital Critical Edition will be annotated edition of the 1920 public-domain text of “May Day,” featuring an integrated map, critical apparatus, and sample lesson plans. TEI mark-up of the text facilitates interactive DH assignments for my “Alcohol in/and Modernist Fiction” course.
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ETCL Profile
In September 2019, I joined the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria as a Digital Scholarship Fellow. As its website notes, “The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab is a collaborative centre for digital and open scholarly practices,” and it is comprised of “a multidisciplinary team of faculty, staff, students, and visiting scholars who engage on- and off-campus partners …
New Website for “Alcohol in/and Modernist Fiction” (Engl 480)
I’ve just launched the official coursepage for English 480: Alcohol in/and Modernist Fiction, which I designed and will be teaching at the University of Victoria in Winter 2020. The website will be updated frequently between now and January 2020, but it already contains some basic information about proposed course readings and assignments, as well as links to a number …
Upcoming Course Offerings
In the upcoming academic year, I will be teaching two courses at the University of Victoria: Modern Canadian Poetry (ENGL 452; Fall 2019) and Alcohol in/and Modernist Fiction (ENGL 480; Winter 2020). I am teaching both for the first time, but they draw heavily on my past and present research interests.
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Doctoral Thesis Awards
I am delighted to share that my dissertation, “Canadian Modernist Poetry and the Rise of Personal Religions,” has been selected as the recipient of the Dalhousie Doctoral Thesis Award, which recognizes “the best thesis submitted by Doctoral students in the 2018 calendar year,” as well as the Malcolm Ross Thesis Award for the best MA or PhD thesis on Canadian …