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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 front, my writing of late seeks to inform personal essays with scholarly discoveries, geared toward a wider readership. To this end, I seek to build on my existing general-audience publications, which 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:
“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:
NCIS activities: serve on the NCIS board and the editorial board, as NCIS secretary, and as an associate editor for The Independent Scholar. Also coordinate the Writers and Translators page.