About me

I live in rural Ontario on my family’s fruit and vegetable farm, where I handle beekeeping, food safety, and field crews. From daily farm work to research on agricultural literature, my life’s oriented around agriculture. I’m curious about our experience of food and farming, which exists within the long historical convergence of nature and labour and means our experience of those, too, and even our experience in general.

I earned my PhD in English Literature and Science and Technology Studies from the University of British Columbia, where I was a Vanier Scholar and Killam Fellow, and where I taught most recently, courses on poetry, history, and the environment. My dissertation is in the process of peer review for publication as Whistling at the Plough: Poetic Infrastructure from Improvement to Romanticism.

Currently, I'm a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at Western University, researching a follow-up book-length project called Working Feeling: Affect, Agriculture, Romanticism and completing my master beekeeping certificate through Cornell. I hope to use my research as a foundation for sustainable community-building and public education.