Peer-reviewed
Co-author with Jessica Lange and Pierre Lasou – “Plan S and Open Access (OA) in Quebec: What Does the Revised FRQ OA Policy Mean for Researchers?” Accepted for publication in EBLIB, forthcoming.
Author – “Imprints from Book Illustration and Advertisement: Eco-Sources in Walt Disney’s Sleeping Heroine Films,” Marvels & Tales 36, no. 2 (2022): 258–83.
Author – “White Snow in the Mirror: An Inversion of the Innocent Childhood Paradigm,” in Childhood through the Looking Glass, ed. Sharma Vibha and Ashlie Brink, Inter-Disciplinary Press Sociology, Politics and Education (Oxford: Brill, 2016/2019), 179–91.
Editorship and reviewing contributions (selected)
Guest editor with JP Mongeau – “Special Issue: Disrupting Whiteness Within Special Collections, Bibliography, and Book History,” Papers of The Bibliographical Society of Canada, forthcoming 2026.
Book review editor – “Book Reviews.” Papers of The Bibliographical Society of Canada 57-62 (2019-2025).
Associate editor with editor François Dansereau – “Encounters: New Horizons in Audio and Visual Collections,” MOQDOC, 2020.
Co-editor with François Dansereau – “Special Issue: Exchanges in the Digital Environment,” MOQDOC, 2019.
Conference Papers and Panels (selected)
“The Book Reborn as Imprints from Our Climate Crisis in Early Disney Fairy Films” (paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Bibliographical Society of Canada at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, York University, May 29, 2023).
“A Dance Between Text and Image: The Pictorial Over the Textual in Walter Crane’s Fairy Tale,” (paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Universities Art Association of Canada, Virtual, Nov. 4, 2022)
“Together and Apart Over Time: Text and Image in the Coloured Fairy Books Series” (paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Bibliographical Society of Canada at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Virtual, May 17, 2022).
“Finding Another Country in the Stacks: Decentering Whiteness within Special Collections, Bibliography and Book History” (co-moderated with JP Mongeau the keynote panel featuring presentations and discussion with Hannah Claus, David Fernández, Désirée Rochat at the Annual Conference of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Virtual, May 16, 2022).
“Expanding Research Possibilities for Visual-Information Seekers with a Renewable Workaround” (Paper presented at Concordia Library Research Forum, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, April 26/7, 2022).
“Beyond the Textual: Visual Information Systems That Help and Hinder” (co-moderated and presented with Joan E. Beaudoin a roundtable presentation and discussion at ARLIS/NA, Annual Conference, Chicago, United States, April 8, 2022).
“The Human and Animal Imprint in Walt Disney’s Fairy-Tale Films” (paper presented in the Fairy Tales and Folk Narratives Division at the Annual Conference of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, accepted for the 2020 conference, which was cancelled because of COVID-19, presented virtually, in 2021).
“Book Illustrations and their Contextual Difficulties in the Era of Mass Digitization” (paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Universities Art Association of Canada, Waterloo, ON, Oct. 25-27, 2018)
“Part I: Art Histories and Digital Humanities: Knowledge Development and Digital Technologies; Part II Digital collections and large corpuses” (digital art history panels co-organized with Felicity Tayler, Corina MacDonald, and Samuel Gaudreau-Lalande at the Annual Conference of the Universities Art Association of Canada, Waterloo, ON, Oct. 25-27, 2018).
“Minding the Gap for Online Book Illustrations” (paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Electronic Literature Organization, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC, Aug. 13-17, 2018).
Guest Presentations and Lectures (selected)
“Open Access Publishing Landscape” (presentation for the Open Science Working Group, Concordia University, Sept. 11, 2023).
“OERs in Action: Promoting Open Education Resources on Campus - Concordia University” (presented with Sarah Fakrhi at Open Education Talks, University of Calgary, Virtual, March 29, 2023).
“Demystifying Open Educational Resources in Higher Education” (guest presentation at Ped Day, Vanier College, October 12, 2022).
“Accountable versus Safe Spaces: A Librarian’s Perspective” (guest presentation at the Global Emergent Media Lab. Virtual. Oct. 29, 2021).
“Brown Bag Morning Tea: Insights: What Makes Decolonizing Libraries Difficult?” (guest presentation at the Brown Bag Series. Concordia University Library, Aug. 5, 2021).
“ARLIS/NA: Moderator Webinar” (guest presentation for a pre-conference professional development session at the Annual Conference of the Art Library’s Association of North America, Virtual, May 3, 2021).
“Writing as Solution: April – Bring your Brown to Work” (guest presentation for Fourth POC Connections and Solutions Series, Diversity Committee of the Art Library’s Association of North America, Virtual. Apr. 30, 2021).
Open Access Repositories
I make appropriate versions of my research openly available in
Spectrum
I am a librarian, educator, researcher. As the Scholarly Publishing Librarian, I lead and coordinate our open educational resources program and support the growth and development of our open scholarship services. As a researcher, I engage in publishing history through the intersections between art history and book history. Finally, as an educator, I believe in increasing access and diversifying our approach to inclusivity in higher education.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Inter-University Program in Art History, Concordia University
Masters of Information Studies, McGill University
Masters of Arts in Art History, York University
Bachelors of Arts in Fine Arts, Bishop’s University
Creative Commons Certificate
Research Interests and Expertise
> Print culture: illustration, interpictoriality, advertisement, storyboards
> History of the book: text-image interactions, children’s books, artists’ books
> Fairy tales: images, narrative variation, characters, publishing history
> Issues of age, gender, race, as well as animality
> EDID: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization in libraries and book studies
> Open Educational Resources and Open Access Publishing
