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 …
My New Bibliography of Margaret Avison
“Bibliography of Margaret Avison, 1987-2017.” The Avison Centenary in 2018. Ed. David A. Kent. Spec. issue of Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 80-81 (Spring/Summer, Fall/Winter 2017): 216-69.
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, …
Article in William James Studies
“It’s Not Personal: Modernist Remediations of William James’s ‘Personal Religion.’” Further Directions in William James and Literary Studies. Ed. Todd Barosky and Justin Rogers-Cooper. Spec. issue of William James Studies 13.2 (2017): 140-66.
I’m grateful to Todd Barosky, Justin Rogers-Cooper, and the editorial team at William James Studies for all of their work on a second special …
New article in the University of Toronto Quarterly
“Beyond the Temple and the Cave: William James, E.J. Pratt, and Christian-Spiritualist Syncretisms.” University of Toronto Quarterly 86.4 (2017): 1-26.
I am happy to announce that my article on James, Pratt, religious syncretism, and personal religions in Canadian poetry has now been published. If you belong to an institution that subscribes to the University of Toronto Quarterly, you may …
MSA 19 (Amsterdam)
I am thrilled to announce that the panel I organized for MSA 19, “Afterlives: Death and the End(s) of Religion in Literary Modernism,” has been accepted. I am equally thrilled to present alongside Pericles Lewis (Yale U) and Suzanne Hobson (Queen Mary U of London), whose generous suggestions helped give this panel its final shape. If you will be …