Publications

Books

Family Ties: Living History in Canadian Historic Homes. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, August 2015. Available at http://www.mqup.ca/family-ties-products-9780773545625.php?page_id=118400&

Museopathy Revisited: Artist Interventions in Canada and Beyond. McGill-Queen’s University Press, under review.  Co-edited with Anne Koval and Taryn Sirove. My written contributions include a co-authored introduction and a co-authored chapter with Carla Taunton (NSCADU, Halifax, NS) entitled “Rising to the Occasion: Valuations of Indigenous Agency and Decolonization in Royal Tours, Historic Sites, and Twelve Angry Crinolines in Thunder Bay, ON.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

“Collaborative Performances of Resistance in Twenty-First Century Toronto: The Encampment and Occupy Toronto,” Journal of Canadian Studies, accepted, in press.

“Gender, Canadian Nationhood, and ‘Keeping House’: The Cultural Bureaucratization of Dundurn Castle.” Gender and History 25.1 (April 2013): 47-64.

“Claiming Christmas for the Tourist: ‘Living History’ at Dundurn Castle.” Journal of Heritage Tourism 3.2 (2008): 104-120.

“Pasturizing Canada: Joe Fafard.” Fuse Magazine 31.4 (September 2008): 44-46.

“Shades of Grace: Review.” Untitled: A Publication of the Union Gallery 15.2 (August 2008): 8-9.

“Un canadien errant: Charles Smeaton and the earliest photographs of the Roman Catacombs.” Revue d’art canadienne/Canadian Art Review 32.1-2 (2007): 94-106. Co-authored with John Osborne.

Refereed Book Chapters

“From Object Base to Multicultural Place to Digital Space: The Toronto Museum Project.” Diverse Spaces: Examining Identity, Heritage and Community within Canadian Public Culture, edited by Susan Ashley, 61-74.  Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013.   

“Canadian Holidays and Heritage: (De)Politicizing the Past in Historic Homes.” Canada Exposed/Le Canada à Découvert, edited by. Pierre Anctil, André Loiselle and Christopher Rolfe, pages 263-280. Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang Publishing Inc., 2009. 

“cache: Provisions and productions in contemporary Igloolik video.” Global Indigenous Media: cultures, Practices and Politics, edited by. Pamela Wilson and Michelle Stewart, pages 74-88. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. Co-authored with the Cache Collective (Taryn Sirove, Lindsay Leitch, Emily Rothwell, Erin Morton, and Michelle Veitch).

Exhibition Catalogues – Museums & Art Galleries

“The North Now,” 2014 Northern Ontario Juried Exhibition [exhibition essay].  Thunder Bay, ON: Thunder Bay Art Gallery, 2014.

“Treks, Traces, and Technologies: An Interview with Julie Cosgrove.”  Nowhere is a Place – Julie Cosgrove [catalogue essay].  Thunder Bay, ON: Thunder Bay Art Gallery, 2014.

“Steady On!” Lakehead University Faculty Exhibition 2013 [exhibition essay].  Thunder Bay, ON: Definitely Superior Artist-Run Centre, 2013.

“From Whence You Came,” Winds from the East [curatorial essay]. Kingston, ON: Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, 2008.

The Malleability of Wax and Meaning: Marjorie Winslow and Twentieth- Century Moulage Production in Canada [research manuscript]. Kingston, ON: Museum of Health Care at Kingston, September 2007.

cache: Three Contemporary Videos from Igloolik [exhibition catalogue]. Kingston, ON: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 2005.  Co-authored with the Cache Collective (Taryn Sirove, Lindsay Leitch, Emily Rothwell, Erin Morton, and Michelle Veitch).

Art Exhibition Reviews

“The Currency of Alex Colville,” Revue d’art canadienne/Canadian Art Review 40.1 (Spring 2015): 108-10.

“Making Memories at Mackenzie House.” Heritage Toronto – Telling Toronto’s Stories. Toronto: Heritage Toronto, August 2011. Available at http://heritagetoronto.org/manufacturing-memories/

“Pasturizing Canada: Joe Fafard.” Fuse Magazine 31.4 (September 2008): 44-46.      

“Shades of Grace: Review.” Untitled: A Publication of the Union Gallery 15.2 (August 2008): 8-9.

“Preserving Realpolitik: A Conversation with Marie-Hélène Cousineau of Arnait Video Productions.” Fuse Magazine 28.3 (2005): 15-19.  Co-authored with the Cache Collective (Taryn Sirove, Lindsay Leitch, Emily Rothwell, Erin Morton, and Michelle Veitch).

Book Reviews

“Review of Rethinking Professionalism: Women and Art in Canada, 1870-1970, edited by Kristina Huneault and Janice Anderson; Defining the Modern Museum: A Case Study of the Challenges of Exchange by Lianne McTavish,” Revue d’art canadienne/ Canadian Art Review 38.1 (2013): 108-113.