Biography:
I have a diverse background. Prior to beginning graduate studies in 2002 I held a number of positions in various sectors: as the head of a children's department in a public library, as a communications and fundraising officer in an international development NGO, and as a piano teacher.
I am the mother of 3 grown children -- I juggled working outside the home with co-parenting.
I have been diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, high risk pregnancies, breast cancer, and colitis. Thus, as is often the case, biography and professional work overlap.
Current research areas:
Please see above.
Please refer to my CV.
Recent scholarly activity:
- co-authoring monograph on cancer and Marvel superheroes
- co-editing special journal for Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies.
- conference papers for the Annual Conference of the Canadian Disability Studies Association and the Canadian Society for the Study of Comics (both 2018)
Recent publications:
- With Tamar Rubin. “Enhancing Learning Cultures Through Inter-Disciplinarity: A Reading Group Pilot Project for Medicine and English Studies.” Keeping Reflection Fresh. Literature and Medicine Series. Eds. Allan Peterkin and Pamela Brett-MacLean. Kent State UP, 2016.
- Book Review on Hatim Kanaaneh’s Chief Complaint: A Country Doctor’s Tales of Life in Galilee for the University of Durham’s Centre for Medical Humanities website. 2015.
- “Beauty Ideals, 20th-21st Centuries.” The Cultural Encyclopedia of the Breast. Ed. Merril Smith. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
- “Reconstructive Surgery.” The Cultural Encyclopedia of the Breast. Ed. Merril Smith. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
Other activities:
Please refer to my CV.