I’m happy to share that my chapter on “William James, Mysticism and the Modernist Epiphany” is now out in The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism, Myth and Religion (ed. Suzanne Hobson and Andrew Radford). It’s an honour to be included here in such terrific company.
As somewhat of an aside: in many ways, this collection represents precisely the kind of scholarship …
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 …
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.
For more information about either of these courses, please …
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 …
I was asked to help celebrate Avison’s centenary (2018) by contributing an updated bibliography to David A. Kent’s special issue of Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews. I am grateful to David, …