As a literary comparatist with an interest in contemporary literatures I have been working across national contexts and languages. My research is social justice driven with a focus on Indigenous-settler relations, diaspora studies, and climate change. Apart from being a binge reader, I have always been an avid language learner. Languages that I have studied include Latin, Spanish, Mandarin, and Anishinaabemowin.
Indigenous literatures; Indigenous-settler relations in Canada; contemporary YA literature; climate crisis literature/environmental justice; Holocaust studies; diaspora literatures (Asian; Muslim; Jewish; Latin American)
"The Role of Warrior Girls in the Repatriation/Rematriation of Ancestors in Susan Currie鈥檚 The Mask That Sang and Angeline Boulley鈥檚 Warrior Girl Unearthed." Forthcoming in The Lion and the Unicorn
"Indigenizing the Young Adult Substance-Use Novel: Adam Garnet Jones鈥檚 Fire Song and Angeline Boulley鈥檚 Firekeeper鈥檚 Daughter." Forthcoming in Children's Literature Association Quarterly 49.2 (2024).
鈥'I Need Readers to Trust That This Can Happen': Relational Realism in Catherine Bush鈥檚 and Doreen Vanderstoop鈥檚 Climate Crisis Novels." British Journal of Canadian Studies. 36.1 (Spring 2024): 29-50.
Review of Helen Olsen Agger. Dadibaajim: Returning Home through Narrative. University of Manitoba Press 2021. University of Toronto Quarterly, 92.3 (2023).
"Healing Intergenerational Trauma through Cultural Reclamation in David Alexander Robertson's Cree-Centric Retelling of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures. 14.1 (August 2022): 49-64.
Reading (Re)conciliation in White Settler and Chinese Canadian Narratives: From Liberal towards Transformative Approaches.鈥 Journal of Canadian Studies 56.1 (Winter 2022): 175-92.
鈥淎nishinaabemowin in Indianland, The Marrow Thieves, and Crow Winter as a Key to Cultural and Political Resurgence.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Studies in Canadian Literature 46.2 (2021): 127-49.
鈥淐olonial Violence in Sixties Scoop Narratives: From In Search of April Raintree to A Matter of Conscience,鈥 Studies in American Indian Literatures (SAIL) 31.1-2. (2019): 115-135.
鈥淩ecent Residential School Narratives by non-Survivor Authors and the Education for Reconciliatio苍.鈥&苍产蝉辫;English Studies in Canada 43.4-44.1 (2019): 111-130.
鈥淩epositioning the Narrative of the Japanese Canadian Internment through Multidirectional Memory.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal. 52.3 (2019): 175-92.
鈥淲riting 鈥楬ome鈥: The Healing Power of M茅tis Storytelling in Cherie Dimaline鈥檚 Red Rooms and The Girl Who Grew a Galaxy.鈥 Studies in Canadian Literature 43.1 (2018): 146-67.
鈥淗ealing Relationships with the Natural Environment by Reclaiming Indigenous Space in Aaron Paquette鈥檚 Lightfinder.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Children鈥檚 Literature and Imaginative Geography. Ed. A茂da Hudson. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2018: 99-116.
鈥淲riting the Canadian Pacific Northwest Ecocritically: The Dynamics of Local and Global in Ruth Ozeki鈥檚 A Tale for the Time Being.鈥&苍产蝉辫; Canadian Literature 232 (2017): 47-63.
Intersections of Diaspora and Indigeneity: The Standoff at Kahnesatake in Lee Maracle鈥檚 Sundogs and Tessa McWatt鈥檚 Out of My Skin,鈥 Canadian Literature 220 (2014): 74-91.
Current PhD Supervisions: Rachel Fernandes (ENGL), Sarah Rose (ENGL co-supervision), Rowan Li (ENGL), Nicole Flores (ENGL), Ozlem Atar (CUST), Alison Benedict (CUST), Michelle Kennedy (CUST), Susan Olding (CUST)
MA theses successfully defended Natalia Equihua (CUST), Christine Shu (CUST), Zhi Lei (CUST), Jocelyn Kinnear, (GRMN) Karin Haelssig (GRMN), Sylvia Bukow (GRMN), Brigitte Bachmann, (GRMN) Matthias Mueller (GRMN), Andreanne Roy (GRMN), Maria Irchenhauser (GRMN)
PhD theses successfully defended : Safa Moussoud (ENGL), Sebastian De Line (CUST co-supervision), Yiyi He (CUST), Margaret Maliszewska (GRMN), Maria Irchenhauser (GRMN), Ruba Turjman (GRMN), Ellie Kennedy (GRMN), Robert Lawson (GRMN)
Other Publications:
Unpublished PhD thesis: 鈥淐ounter-Discursive Strategies in First World Migrant Writing,鈥 (focus on Australian, Canadian, and American diaspora authors); Rewriting Germany from the Margins: 鈥淥ther鈥 German Literature of the 1980s and 1990s (McGill-Queen鈥檚 UP, 2001); translated from English into German: Die Lebenden Gedanken des Propheten Muhammad and Handbuch des Hadit; 鈥淧oland and Postmemory in Second-Generation German Jewish Fictio苍.鈥 Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 27.4; 鈥淭he Making of a Terrorist: John Updike鈥檚 Terrorist and Christoph Peters鈥檚 Ein Zimmer im Haus des Krieges.鈥 Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 34.4; 鈥淣arratives of Transnational Divide: The Vietnamese in Contemporary German Literature and Film.鈥 Imagining Germany Imagining Asia: Essays in Asian-German Studies. 50-63; 鈥淩ome Seen through the Eyes of a Muslim-German Latter-Day Fl芒neur,鈥 Feridun Zaimoglu. 201鈥 218; 鈥淚ndia/Sri Lanka, the Holocaust, and the European Gaze in Anita Desai鈥檚 Baumgartner鈥檚 Bombay and Jeannette Lander鈥檚 Jahrhundert der Herre苍.鈥 Mapping Channels between Ganges and Rhein: German-Indian Cross-Cultural Relations.120-136. 鈥淎 New Kind of Creative Energy: Yad茅 Kara鈥檚 Selam Berlin and Fatih Akin鈥檚 Kurz und schmerzlos and Gegen die Wand. German Life and Letters; 鈥淐ultural/Culinary Ambivalence in Sara Chin鈥檚 鈥楤elow the Line,鈥 Evelina Galang鈥檚 鈥楩ilming Sausage,鈥 and Yoko Tawada鈥檚 鈥楧as Bad.鈥欌 Reading Chinese Transnationalism: Society, Literature, Film. 89-102.
