Current courses

2024-25

ACAD 1601 FA001: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 FA002: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 FA003: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 FA004: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 FA005: Academic Writing

ACAD 1601 WI001: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 WI002: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 WI003: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 WI004: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 WI005: Academic Writing

Past teaching

Nipissing University

2023-24
ACAD 1601 FA001: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 FA005: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 FA801: Academic Writing (online)
ACAD 1601 FA802: Academic Writing (online)
ACAD 1601 FA803: Academic Writing (online)
ACAD 1601 WI001: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 WI002: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 WI803: Academic Writing (online)
ACAD 1601 WI804: Academic Writing (online)
ACAD 1601 WI805: Academic Writing (online)

2022-23
ACAD 1601 FA001: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 FA003: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 FA801: Academic Writing (online)
ACAD 1601 FA802: Academic Writing (online)
ACAD 1601 FA803: Academic Writing (online)
ACAD 1601 WI001: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 WI002: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 WI803: Academic Writing (online)
ACAD 1601 WI804: Academic Writing (online)

2021-22
ACAD 1501 FA801: Preparation for Academic Writing (online)
ACAD 1601 FA801: Academic Writing (online)
ACAD 1601 FA802: Academic Writing (online)
ACAD 1601 FA803: Academic Writing (online)
ACAD 1601 WI004: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 WI005: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 WI807: Academic Writing (online)
ACAD 1601 WI808: Academic Writing (online)

2020-21
ACAD 1501 FA801: Preparation for Academic Writing (online)
ACAD 1601 FA803: Academic Writing (online)
ACAD 1601 FA804: Academic Writing (online)
ACAD 1601 FA807: Academic Writing (online)
ACAD 1601 WI803: Academic Writing (online)
ACAD 1601 WI804: Academic Writing (online)
ACAD 1601 WI805: Academic Writing (online)
ENGL 2007 WI801: British Literature after 1800 (online)

2019-20
ACAD 1601 FA001: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 FA002: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 FA004: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 FA005: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 FA007: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 WI001: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 WI010: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 WI011: Academic Writing

2018-19
ENGL 1036: Topics in Literature: Dark Nights and Dark Knights
ENGL 2007: British Literature after 1800
ENGL 2267: Contemporary American Literature
ENGL 3036: Topics in Media Studies: Music Videos
ENGL 3346: The Romantics
ENGL 3606: Popular Culture: Animating Satire

2017-18
ENGL 1036: Topics in Literature: Dark Nights and Dark Knights
ENGL 2116: Texts and Intertexts: Odysseys
ENGL 2207: Gender, Literature and Culture: Many Masculinities
ENGL 3047: Topics in Digital Culture: Digital Games
ENGL 3487: Topics in Poetic Genres: Dramatic Monologues
ENGL 3606: Popular Culture: Songs of Dylan and Cohen

2016-17
ACAD 1501 F001: Preparation for Academic Writing
ACAD 1501 W001: Preparation for Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 F004: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 F010: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 F011: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 W001: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 W002: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 W003: Academic Writing

2015-16
ACAD 1501 F001: Preparation for Academic Writing
ACAD 1501 W001: Preparation for Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 F002: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 F010: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 F012: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 W008: Academic Writing
ACAD 1601 W011: Academic Writing
ENGL 1006: Topics in Literature: Trees of Life and Death

2014-15
DIGI 2305: Introduction to Digital Culture
DIGI 4006: Project in Digital Humanities
ENGL 1027: Topics in Literature: Music in Literature
ENGL 4886: Digital Worlds

2013-14
DIGI 2305: Introduction to Digital Culture
DIGI 4006: Project in Digital Humanities
ENGL 3036: Graphic Novels
ENGL 3047: Digital Games
ENGL 4886: Digital Worlds

2012-13
DIGI 2305: Introduction to Digital Humanities
ENGL 3036: Digital Anxieties
ENGL 3606: Representing Artificial Intelligence
ENGL 4527: Theories of the Dramatic Monologue

2011-12
DIGI 2305: Introduction to Digital Humanities
ENGL 2007: British Literature after 1800
ENGL 3036: Studies in Media I: Digital Anxieties
ENGL 3606: Studies in Popular Culture I: Representing Artificial Intelligence

2010-11
DIGI 2305: Introduction to Digital Humanities
ENGL 1107: Introduction to English Studies II
ENGL 2006: British Literature before 1800
ENGL 2006: British Literature before 1800 (spring session)
ENGL 3607: Studies in Popular Culture II: Animating Satire
ENGL 4886: Honours Seminar: Elegy

2009-10
ENGL 1106: Introduction to English Studies I
ENGL 2006: British Literature before 1800 (spring session)
ENGL 2007: British Literature after 1800 (spring session)
ENGL 2025: Language and Rhetoric
ENGL 3027: Advanced Language and Rhetoric II: Approaches to Prosody
ENGL 3036: Studies in Media I: Web Identities
ENGL 4887: Honours Seminar: Canterbury Tales

2008-09
ENGL 2537: Studies in Shakespeare II
ENGL 3026: Advanced Language and Rhetoric I: Studies in Oratory
ENGL 3027: Advanced Language and Rhetoric II: Approaches to Prosody
ENGL 4686: Honours Seminar: Romantic Love in the Sonnet Sequence
ENGL 4687: Honours Seminar: Theories of the Dramatic Monologue
ENGL 4786: Honours Seminar: Mansfield and Woolf

2007-08
ENGL 2207: Gender, Literature, and Culture II: The New Woman
ENGL 3486: Studies in Genre I: Ballads before 1800 (spring session)
ENGL 3607: Studies in Popular Culture II: 200 Years of Popular Song (spring session)
ENGL 4527: Advanced Studies in Genre: Romantic Love in the Sonnet Sequence

2006-07
ENGL 3607: Studies in Popular Culture II: Two Hundred Years of Popular Song

University of Toronto

2005-06
ENG 214H: The Short Story Collection

2003-04
ENG 110Y: Narrative
ENG 214H: The Short Story Collection (spring session)
ENG 324Y: Fiction 1832-1900

2002-03
ENG 214H: The Short Story Collection (spring session)
ENG 322Y: Fiction before 1832
ENG 324Y: Fiction 1832-1900

2001-02
ENG 100H: Effective Writing
ENG 100H: Effective Writing (spring session)
ENG 324Y: Fiction 1832-1900

Current research

Coming soon.

Publications

Refereed publications

• “The Lemma and Database Design: Redesigning Representative Poetry Online, Lemmatizing Lexicons of Early Modern English, and Envisioning the Lemmatic Web.” New Knowledge Environments 1.1 (2009). online. Rpt. in Scholarly and Research Communication 3.2 (2012). online.
• “Poetic Waveforms, Discrete Fourier Transform Analysis of Phonemic Accumulations, and Love in the Garden of Tennyson’s Maud.” Digital Studies / Le champ numérique 1.3 (2009). online.
• “Orphic Persuasions and Siren Seductions: Vocal Music in South Park.” With Jason Boyd. Taking South Park Seriously. Ed. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. 59-77.
• “Virtual Verse Analysis: Analysing Patterns in Poetry.” Literary and Linguistic Computing 21 (Supplement, 2006): 127-41.
• “Computer-Assisted Phonetic Analysis of English Poetry: A Preliminary Case Study of Browning and Tennyson.” Text Technology 14 (2005): 153-75.
• “‘What do you mean by your mountainous fugues?’: A Musical Reading of Browning’s ‘A Toccata of Galuppi’s’ and ‘Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha.’” Victorian Poetry 37.3 (Fall 1999): 309-31.

Non-refereed publication

• “Chorley, John Rutter.” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 11: 515-16.