November 2025. My essay “Pop Goes the Storyworld: Popular Songs for Teaching Narrative Theory” is now as part of the collection The Crossroads of Music and Literature: New Essays on the Muse of Song, edited by Kelly Baron and Andrew DuBois.

May 2025. The book I’ve co-edited with Rachael Cayley and Fiona Coll, Writing Together: Building Social Writign Opportunities for Graduate Students, was published with the University of Michigan Press in January! The book gather accounts of graduate writing support offerings across North America that make sociality a central pedagogical and professional-development focus. The book as a whole argues for a greater recognition of scholarly writing as a social practice, moving away from the dominant productivity-centred view of writing together.

The book was recently the topic of discussion on the Tea for Teaching podcast (listen here) and is also discussed on the News page of the School of Graduate Studies website at the University of Toronto.

Fall 2023. My latest article, “Science Storytelling beyond the Dramatic Arc: Narrativity and Little Red Schoolhouse Principles in Science Communication,” is now out in JAEPL: Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning. This represents the first publication in Part II of my SSHRC-funded project, which focuses on pedagogy and practical ways for scientists to use elements of narrative theory in their technical writing.

Summer 2023. My latest article, “Comparative Literature and Science, in the Abyss (Meta)Fiction and Benthic Biology in Woolf, Gide, Huxley, and Brossard,” has just been published in CompLit: Journal of European Literature, Arts, and Society. It includes research going back as far as my PhD course work in 2009, as well as a conference paper I presented at the Modernist Studies Association convention in 2012. The research cycle can be long: keep all your drafts and notes!

Spring 2023. I’m pleased to announce the publication of the newly published special issue of JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory, entitled “Narratologies of Science.” Guest edited by me, and featuring essays by Marco Caracciolo, Daniella Gáti, Pascale Manning, Eric Morel, Toon Staes and Rhona Trauvitch, it is the first part of a larger project on the ways in which the sciences provide generative challenges and case studies for narratology. You can find it here: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/49136.

A “featured author” interview related to the special issue can be read here.

Summer 2022. The first publication from my new SSHRC-funded project on science and narratology, is now out in Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and History of Ideas. Entitled “Limits of Narrative Science: Unnarratability and Neonarrative in Evolutionary Biology,” it is part of a special issue on “The Limits of Narrative,” edited by Samuli Björninen and Merja Polvinen. It features close readings of several diagrams depicting arms-race coevolutionary dynamics between pollinators and the flowers they visit.

2021. An abridged version of my book’s chapter on Joyce, “A Portrait of the Artist as a ‘Biologist in Words’: Language, Epiphany and Atavistic Bildung,” appears in the newly-published Norton Critical Edition of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 2nd ed., edited by John Paul Riquelme.

2021. My chapter “Beyond the Search Image: Reading as (Re)search” is now out in the book Modernism, Theory, and Responsible Reading: A Critical Conversation, edited and introduced by Stephen Ross, with an Afterword by Paul St. Amour.