Women's and Gender Studies

Research and teaching interests: My research is characterized by interdisciplinarity. Since publishing The Agon of Modernism: Wyndham Lewis’s Allegories, Aesthetics, and Politics in 1999, I have published articles on legal discourse and same-sex partnership, law and literature, historiography, Gothic fiction, fiction and the visual arts, and Canadian modernism. My book, Power and Legitimacy (2015), examines the relationship between power and language in the context of interdisciplinary analyses of jurisprudence, statutory law, and literature. More recently, my research publications have revolved around practices of experimental poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with a particular focus on Oana Avasilichioaei, Nicole Brossard, Liz Howard, Dionne Brand, m. nourbeSe philip, and Rachel Zolf. I am currently writing a book on the poetry of Erín Moure, a major experimental poet in Canada.