I am a settler writer, researcher, and educator, and I live with my partner and four young children in Menahkwesk/Saint John, which is part of Wolastokuk in the unceded and unsurrendered land of the Wabanaki Confederacy. My academic training is in literary history, and I study local and regional discourses of empire in the contexts of the literary cultures of the so-called Atlantic World and in the context of the Peace and Friendship Treaty relationship. I am an English professor in the Department of Humanities and Languages at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John, a current steering committee member for the Material Culture Collective (based at Dalhousie University), and I support Wolastoqewi-led, land-based treaty education as a member of the board at Caribou Club. In 2025/2026, I am collaborating with Gina Brooks and Tara Francis on two research creation projects, each supported by the New Brunswick Arts Board, and I am embarking on a new SSHRC-funded research program focused on the history of paper in the Maritime region prior to the advent of the pulp and paper industry. You can read more about some of my previous writing and research here.