Born: 9 September 1972, Toronto
Citizenship: British

University of Exeter PhD studentship
Awarded: June 2009
Projected date of completion: September 2012
PhD working title: ‘Alternate History in the nineteenth century’

Masters of Arts (Hons), English Literature
University of Exeter
Completed: September 2009
Grade: Distinction, with Dean’s Commendation
Dissertation title: ‘The Limits of Utopian Representation in Richard Jefferies and William Morris’

Bachelor of Arts (Hons), English Literature and Language
University of St Andrews
Completed: June 1996
Grade: 2:1

‘Literature and the Environment’, University of Exeter, 2010

‘From Modernism to the Contemporary’, University of Exeter, 2010

‘Historiographies of Utopia and the Time of Criticism’.  Paper delivered at Critical Theory: The Text and the World, University of Exeter, September 2009.  http://www.sall.ex.ac.uk/content/view/2344/291/

‘De Quincey and the Phantom Organs of Modern Subjectivity’.  Paper delivered at Instruction, Amusement and Spectacle: Popular Shows and Exhibitions 1800-1914, University of Exeter, April 2009.  http://www.sall.ex.ac.uk/conferences/victorian-shows.html

‘Joy as a Biopolitical Concept in Agamben’.  Paper delivered at Agamben Symposium, University of Exeter (Cornwall Campus), March 2009.