I work on various French & Canadian poets of the last fifty years. 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. These reconstructions or reappropriations are always enmeshed with technical, erotic, and political configurations.
I am editor in chief 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, explicit chapbooks.
Recent publications include snow of snow, a chapbook at Bottlecap Press (March 2024); and vaisseau instantané/instant shipping, a full-length poetry book at Les murmurations (June 2024).
Poems, book reviews and translations have appeared in various journals (including, in the US: Chicago Review, FENCE, Cult Mag., The Atlantic, Denver Quarterly; in France, Doc(k)s, Mouche, sitaudis...).
Recent Academic Publications:
- “Cécile Mainardi’s Sorties : Poetry as Desire and Performance,” Dalhousie French Studies, 2024 (forthcoming), p. 79-88.
- « Une époque invalidée ? Corps et écriture chez Liliane Giraudon », Études francophones, vol. 37, no. 1, 2024, p. 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)