Education
BA, Honours, English & Drama, with High Distinction, University of Toronto
BEd, English, Drama, & French, University of Toronto
MA, English, Concordia University
PhD, English, Rutgers University
My research interests include eighteenth-century literature, gender and sexuality, and humour studies. My first book, The Closet: The Eighteenth-Century Architecture of Intimacy shows how the various private rooms known as closets shaped extrafamilial relationships in eighteenth-century Britain, including the strangely virtual intimacies of print, the first mass medium.
My current research project, tentatively titled “Flayed: Eighteenth-Century Satire and Twenty-First-Century Un/Laughter,” explores the ongoing impact of eighteenth-century British satire on twenty-first-century North American comedy and humour discourse. This research has especially benefited from the talks, performances, and workshops I’ve organized and co-organized for Concordia’s Feminism and Humour working group.
Research, teaching, and supervision interests
17th- & 18th-century literature & culture
satire & humour studies
gender & sexuality
feminist cultural studies
intimacy & affect
print culture & media shift
material culture
pedagogy
