Selected Publications

  • "'It's no different than anywhere else': Regionalism, Place, and Popular Culture in Lynn Coady's Saints of Big Harbour." Canadian Literature 208 (Spring 2011): 109-125.

  • "Canadian Fiction." Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, Vol. 3: World Fiction. Ed. John C. Ball. Blackwell, 2011.

  • "Canadian Literary Cities" (with Marcel Barriault). Canada: A Literary Tour (web exhibition). Library and Archives Canada, 2009. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/literary-tour/027020-2000-e.html

  • Editor (with Justin D. Edwards), Downtown Canada: Writing Canadian Cities. U of Toronto P, 2005.

  • "'I too am a Canadian': John Richardson's The Canadian Brothers as Postcolonial Narrative." Is Canada Postcolonial? Unsettling Canadian Literature. Ed. Laura Moss. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2003. 162-176.

  • "Travel Writing at the End of Empire: A Pom Named Bruce and the Mad White Giant." English Studies in Canada 29.3-4 (2003): 200-219.

  • Editor, Dictionary of Literary Biography 251: Canadian Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers. Gale, 2002.

  • "'I saw everything but could comprehend nothing': Melville's Typee, Travel Narrative, and Colonial Discourse." ATQ: 19th Century American Literature and Culture 16.2 (2002): 115-130.

  • "'A Reader's Guide to the Intersection of Time and Space': Urban Spatialization in Hugh Hood's Around the Mountain 23.1 (1998): 238-249.

  • "Outhouses of the European Soul: Imperialism in Thomas Pynchon."Pynchon Notes 40-41 (1997): 134-143.

  • "Canadian Content: Cultural Specificity in English-Canadian Popular Music." Canadian Issues 19 (1997): 47-56.