I’m a PhD Candidate at Western University researching the phenomenology of play and melancholy in videogames. I’m grateful to have been invited to speak internationally about my research, and that my work has been fully funded by the Department of English and Writing Studies as well as two consecutive Ontario Graduate Scholarships. I’m a member of the Canadian Game Studies Association and the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English.
My stories, poetry, and book reviews have been published in Queen’s Quarterly, The Journal of American Culture, The Literary Review of Canada, The Undergraduate Review, Lake Effect 10, and elsewhere. I’m the winner of the 2021 McIlquham Foundation Prize in English (valued at $4700) for my short story “Ballad of a Thin Man” and The Queen’s Journal’s 2020 poetry contest.
I’ve worked as a programmer at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Dr. Kullervo Hynynen’s Focused Ultrasound Laboratory and in Dr. Martin Yaffe’s Biomarker Imaging Research Laboratory. I’ve also worked as a technical writer for Queen’s University’s Data Platform. At Western, I was a research assistant under Dr. Aaron Schneider on his SSHRC-awarded project, “The Future Tense Life of Colonel Talbot,” about the relationship between writing and colonial power, travelling as far as the University of Oxford for archival research.
Currently, I’m a teaching assistant. I’ve taught a wide range of courses, from a third-year introduction to modernism to a first-year “Enriched Introduction to English Literature.”
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