I work on postmodern and contemporary poetry and poetics in France and Québec. My dissertation explores metaphors of the body which have structured the recent history of Western poetry—from the idea of the text as body, to the fascination with assemblages and prosthetics. I explore various ways of constructing bodies through writing and reading.
I am the founding editor of Transat’, a journal of poetry and poetics in French and English; and co-editor of Sardines & Marmelade, a small press that publishes mixed-media chapbooks.
Recent publications include two books of poetry, “This is it” (Antiphony, 2025) and vaisseau instantané/instant shipping (Les murmurations, 2024).
Poems, book reviews and translations have appeared in various journals (including, in the US: Chicago Review, FENCE, Sarka, The Atlantic, Denver Quarterly; in France, Doc(k)s, Mouche, Cockpit...).
Recent Academic Publications:
- "Cécile Mainardi’s Sorties. Poetry as Desire and Performance", Dalhousie French Studies, vol. 125, Winter 2024, 79–88.
- "Une époque invalidée? Corps et écriture chez Liliane Giraudon", Études francophones, vol. 37, no. 1, 2024, 101–116.
- "Le bas voltage: Dominique Fourcade, Stéphane Bouquet et l’électricité poétique", Revue Européenne de Recherches sur la Poésie, no. 8, 2023, p. 145–157.
Recent Courses in RLL
- FREN 20500 Writing in French/Écrire en Français (Fall 2022)
- FREN 23333 Reading French for Research Purposes (Winter 2023)
- FREN 24725, CMLT 24725, GNSE 23172 Transatlantic Feminism. French, Francophone, and North American perspectives (20th–21st c.) (Winter 2025)