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A U.S.-based independent scholar and writer (Ph.D. Modern French Studies, MS Library Science, MFA Creative Nonfiction), for income I have worked as an editor and taught as an adjunct. For inspiration, I have drawn from both research and personal experience. On the academic front, my most recent publication (Comparative Literature Studies 59, no. 2 [2022]) examines differences in U.S. and Canadian literature surrounding the notion of “frontier,” as exemplified in works by James Fenimore Cooper and Joseph-Charles Taché. On the creative and general-audience front, recent publications are "My Inner Ms. Natural Fought with the Mirror; The Mirror Won (Next Avenue, https://www.nextavenue.org/my-inner-natural-mirror-won/); and "Telling an Emotional Truth" (The Writer's Center Magazine, winter-spring 2024, pp. 37-38, https://writer.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TWC-Magazine_WISP2024_fina...). Earlier publications include The Apocalpyse Is Everywhere: A Popular History of America’s Favorite Nightmare (Praeger/ABC-CLIO, 2009) and “Assisting Science” (Potomac Review, no. 37 (2004).
Current research areas:
Literature, culture and history of Francophone Canada: intercultural, inter-lingual encounters. Translations as used in literary works.
Recent scholarly activity:
Métis literature and art. Differing concepts of "frontier" in French Canada and the British American colonies.
Recent publications:
"My Inner Ms. Natural Fought with the Mirror; The Mirror Won," Next Avenue, January 11, 2024, https://www.nextavenue.org/my-inner-natural-mirror-won/.
"Telling an Emotional Truth," The Writer's Center Magazine, winter-spring 2024, 37-38, https://writer.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TWC-Magazine_WISP2024_fina....
“Taché’s Voyageur Is Not Cooper’s Frontiersman: Differences Between Canadian and U.S. Concepts of 'Frontier,'” Comparative Literature Studies 59, no. 2 (May 2022), 370–401.
“‘Minor’ literature of an itinerant culture: Goulet, Campbell, and the Canadian Métis,” Contemporary French Civilization 45, no. 2 (2020), 143–64.
“Writing and Art in Activist Collaboration: A Métis Story of Resistance and Change,” The Independent Scholar 6 (Feb. 2020): 32–38
Forthcoming research:
Multilingual uses in Canadian literature: translations as they are and have been used in Canadian literary works.
Other activities:
Current NCIS board member. Also help out on an informal basis as needed and as requested. Former NCIS secretary and TIS editor.