Academic

Education

PhD, English. University of New Brunswick, 2025

MA, English. University of Calgary, 2017

BA, English (Honours). Mount Royal University, 2015

Publications (Journal Special Issues)

Editor, MONSTRUM, 8.2: Vegan and Animal Liberation Horror (2025)

Publications (Essays)

“The Demon in the (Writer’s) Mind: Shirley Jackson’s Writing About Writing.” The Oxford Handbook of Shirley Jackson, edited by Kristopher Woofter and Emily Banks, Oxford University Press (forthcoming)

“Introduction: Vegan and Animal Liberation Horror Worlds.” MONSTRUM, vol. 8.2, pp. 1-15 (2025)

“Gothic Phenomena and Weird Noumena: On Writing Dark Numinous Fiction.” American Gothic Studies, vol. 1.2, pp. 257–287 (2025)

“Weirding Heavy Metal in Darkest Hours.” The Weird: A Companion, edited by Carl H. Sederholm and Kristopher Woofter, Peter Lang, pp. 203-12 (2025)

“Lizard Brain Ouroboros: Human Anti-Exceptionalism in Tobe Hooper’s Eaten Alive and Crocodile.” American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper, edited by Kristopher Woofter and William Dodson, University of Texas Press, pp. 106-15 (2021)

“‘No Desire If It’s Not Forbidden’: Dread, Eroticism, and Text Messaging in Personal Shopper.” Beyond Empowertainment: Feminist Horror and the Struggle for Female Agency, edited by Alexandra Heeney, Mary Angela Rowe, and Orla Smith, Seventh Row, pp. 148-54 (2019)

“Collective Abjection: Social Horror in Stephen King’s It.” Thinking Horror: A Journal of Horror Philosophy, vol. 2, pp. 314-36 (2019)

“The Relocation of Monstrosity: An Analysis of Horror in Brian De Palma’s Carrie.” Mount Royal Undergraduate Humanities Review, vol. 1.1, 2013

Publications (Reviews)

“‘They All Run Like Scared Little Rabbits’: The Vegan Ethos of Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses.” Review of House of 1000 Corpses (Lionsgate, 2003). MONSTRUM, vol. 8.2, pp. 179-85 (2025)

Review of The Thing: A Phenomenology of Horror, by Dylan Trigg. Chiasma: A Site for Thought, vol. 3, pp. 112-16 (2016)

Conferences & Colloquia

“Animal Liberation and Horror Worlds.” Radical Reimaginings: New Medias, Old Genres (colloquium) | University of New Brunswick | Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada (2025)

“‘They All Run Like Scared Little Rabbits’: The Vegan Ethos of Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses.” Film and Media Studies Association of Canada Conference: Autonomies | Queen’s University | Kingston, Ontario, Canada (2025)

“The Demon in the (Writer’s) Mind: Abyssal Exuberance in Shirley Jackson’s Novels.” International Gothic Association Conference: Gothic Trans/Iterations | Mount Saint Vincent University | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (2024)

“Anthroposcream: Fiction Writing in the Climate Crisis.” Worldwide Climate Teach-In | Harriet Irving Library Research Commons | Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada (2023)

“‘Something happened’: Pessimism and Human Failure in Stephen King’s Revival.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference (virtual) (2022)

“Mourning the Masculine: Stephen King’s Lisey’s Story in the Gothic Tradition.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference | Seattle, Washington, United States of America (2016)

“Control Through Disruption: Subjectivity as Paradox in Jacques Lacan’s ‘The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience.’” English Undergraduate Colloquium: McCarthy, Lacan, and Zine Culture | Mount Royal University | Calgary, Alberta, Canada (2014)

Master of Ceremonies | “Why Undergraduate Philosophy?” (speakers: Chloë Taylor and Catherine Clune-Taylor, University of Alberta) | Mount Royal University | Calgary, Alberta, Canada (2014)

“Horror Deconstructing Terror: On Jacques Derrida’s Genre Theory.” Philosophy, History, and Politics Undergraduate Conference | Thompson Rivers University | Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada (2014)

“The Horror of Exclusion: Abjection and the Collective Unconscious in Stephen King’s It.” Bodies of Representation: Theory & Practice Conference | Mount Royal University | Calgary, Alberta, Canada (2013)

Courses Taught (Instructor of Record)

Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction and Screenwriting (University of New Brunswick, 2025)

Fundamentals of Clear Writing (University of New Brunswick, 2025)

Writing Horror Fiction (Charlotte Street Arts Centre, 2024)

Introduction to Modern Literature in English (University of New Brunswick, 2023)

Introduction to Literary Analysis (Bow Valley College, 2020-21 [4 sections, online & in-person])

English Composition (Bow Valley College, 2019-21 [11 sections, online & in-person])

Interpersonal Relationships and Communication Skills (Bow Valley College, 2020)

Teaching Assistantships

Introduction to Prose Fiction (University of New Brunswick, 2021)

Foundations: Shakespeare (University of Calgary, 2016-17 [2 sections])

Detective Fiction (University of Calgary, 2015)

Guest Lectures

Methods & Bibliography (Dr. Stephen Schryer, University of New Brunswick, 2024)

Honours Seminar (Dr. Michele Holmgren, Royal University [online], 2024)

Monstrosity in Literature (Dr. Murray Leeder, University of Winnipeg [online], 2023)

Introduction to Modern Literature in English (Dr. Elizabeth Effinger, University of New Brunswick, 2023)

Topics in Canadian Literature: The Fantastic (Dr. Murray Leeder, University of Winnipeg [online], 2022)

Introduction to Modern Literature in English (Dr. Lisa Robertson, University of New Brunswick, 2022)

Creative Writing: Short Fiction (Dr. David Huebert, University of New Brunswick, 2021)

Introduction to Writing Fiction (Dr. Randy Schroeder, Mount Royal University, 2020)

Cultural Studies and Critical Theory (Dr. Randy Schroeder, Mount Royal University, 2019)

Workshop Facilitation

Student Learning Services (Mount Royal University, 2013-14)