Biography

I began teaching at STU in 2004, after teaching both graduate and undergraduate courses at York, UofT, and McMaster. My doctoral research concerned the discursive and rhetorical limits of scientific knowledge production in “early modern” natural philosophy, and lead to my book, Francis Bacon and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge. My ongoing research has ranged across several fields, but is in all cases linked to broad theoretical questions that have resulted in articles on subjects as varied as science fiction and post-humanism, phenomenology and science studies, Francis Bacon and feminism, and 18thC poetry and the Kantian sublime. Current work includes research on the transformation of the university into an arm of the corporate state and global capital, graphic novels and the juridical state of exception, and hegemonic masculinity and its counterintuitive queering by war.

My teaching focuses on various aspects of literary theory, especially on theories of language/linguistics and literature, politics and culture, and gender and sexuality. I also teach courses in cultural studies.

Beyond all this, I have been active in union work, as president of both the Faculty Association here at STU, and as President of the Federation of New Brunswick Faculty Associations, receiving the Prix Nicole Raymond for “distinguished contribution to post-secondary education in New Brunswick” in 2013.