About me

I live in rural Ontario on my family’s fruit and vegetable farm, where I handle beekeeping, food safety, and field crews. My life’s oriented around agriculture, from daily farm work to research on agricultural literature. I’m curious about how we experience food and farming, which exist within the long historical convergence of nature and labour and means how we experience those, too, and even how we 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. I taught most recently at UBC, too, courses on poetry, history, and the environment. Currently, I’m revising my dissertation for publication as Whistling at the Plough: Poetic Infrastructure from Improvement to Romanticism.

I'm also starting a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at Western University to work on 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.