I received my B.A from Wilfrid Laurier University and my M.A. and PhD from Queen’s University (1992). After a postdoctoral fellowship at UBC, I worked at Simon Fraser University until 2001, when I moved back to UBC. I write and teach in the following areas: post-1945 British literature, with emphasis on the Thatcher years; the relationship between print and film cultures, and image and text more generally, with focus on the status and function of screenplays as print texts; and the life and work of the British/Canadian writer Malcolm Lowry.

I welcome graduate students with research interests in the areas of post-1945 British literature and culture; the relationship between print and film cultures, or text and image more generally; and the life and work of Malcolm Lowry.