Personal Information
Education
- Ph.D. (English) [2007] University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. Supervisor: Dr. G. Kim Blank.
- Dissertation title: How Wordsworth became Wordsworth:
A Poet’s Construction of Audience and Author.
- Special Topics examination: "The Romantics and Language".
- General examination: Nineteenth-century English Literature.
- Graduate seminars on Hardy, Nineteenth-century fiction, and Ritual Approaches to Shakespeare.
- M.A. (English) [1982] University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.
- B.A. (English) [1978] Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C.
Teaching Experience
Administrative Duties
Publications
- "The Naming of Places/ The Placing of Names," in Byron and Greece ed. M. Byron Raizis. Athens: Messolonghi Byron Society, 2003.
- Review of Hemingway's True at First Light in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 9.1 (Winter 2002), 264-265.
- Review of Matthew Stewart's Modernism and Tradition in Hemingway's In Our Time: A Guide for Students and Readers in The Hemingway Review 20.2 (Spring 2001), 110-112.
Committee Work
- Canada Research Chairs Strategy Committee (2005-06)
- University Designation Committee (2005-)
- Academic Computing Steering Committee (2006-)
- Aboriginal Education Steering Committee (2006-)
- Search Committees:
- Director, Aboriginal Education
- Dean, Faculty of Education
- Campus Principal, Cowichan Regional Campus
Papers Presented
- June 2006 - "For Whom the Bell Tolls: Hemingway's Post-modern Critique". Paper presented at the International Hemingway Conference, June 25-30, Ronda, Spain.
- June 2004 - "Publication & Publics, Authors & Authority: Writing in the Garden". Paper presented at the International Hemingway Conference, June 7-12, Key West, FL.
- July 2002 - "Duty vs. Agency in Hemingway's Italian Novels". Paper presented at the International Hemingway Conference, July 2-7, Stresa, Italy.
- May 2002 - "The Naming of Places/ The Placing of Names". Paper presented at the First Student Byron Conference, May 11-18, Messolonghi, Greece.
- November 2001 - "Texts, Tasks, and Tools". Paper presented at the Humanities Computing Curriculum conference, November 9-10, Nanaimo, BC.
- January 2000 - "Child Hemingway's Pilgrimage: Byron, Hemingway, and Authority". Paper presented at the International Hemingway Conference, January 3-9, Bimini, Bahamas.
- February 1999 - "Blake, the Common Reader, and Multimedia". Paper presented at the Permeable Boundaries Grad conference at UBC, February 1-2, 1999, Vancouver, BC.
- December 1998 - "Hemingway, Hypertext, and the Construction of the (Post)Modern Reader". Paper presented at the Modern Language Convention, December 27-30, San Francisco, CA.
- May 1998 - "Hemingway's Paris: An On-line Companion. Website first presented at the International Hemingway Conference, May 25-30, Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France.
- April 1997 - "Blake, Wordsworth, and Multimedia". Paper presented at the Letters of the Spirit Romanticism conference, April 25-27, Seattle, WA.
- July 1996 - "A River Runs Through It: Return, Recollection, and Renovation in Hemingway's In Our Time and Wordsworth's Prelude". Paper presented at International Hemingway Conference, Sun Valley, ID.
- July 1994 - "Finding Patterns in Hemingway and Camus: Construction of Meaning and Truth". Paper, co-authored with Robert D. Lane, delivered at International Hemingway Conference, Paris, France; published on-line in The Existence of Albert Camus at Duke University.
- July 1992 - "Teaching Hemingway's 'Hills'". Seminar presentation at International Hemingway Conference, Pamplona, Spain.
- July 1990 - "How We Teach A Farewell to Arms". Seminar presentation at International Hemingway Conference, Boston, MA.
Professional Affiliations
Hobbies and Other Activities
- Hiking and Camping.
- Travel.
