selected publications

"'it's no different than anywhere else': regionalism, place, and popular culture in lynn coady's saints of big harbour." canadian literature 208 (spring 2011): 109-125.

"canadian fiction." blackwell encyclopedia of twentieth-century fiction, vol. 3: world fiction. ed. john c. ball. blackwell, 2011.

"canadian literary cities" (with marcel barriault). canada: a literary tour (web exhibition). library and archives canada, 2009. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/literary-tour/027020-2000-e.html

editor (with justin d. edwards), downtown canada: writing canadian cities. u of toronto p, 2005.

"'i too am a canadian': john richardson's the canadian brothers as postcolonial narrative." is canada postcolonial? unsettling canadian literature. ed. laura moss. wilfrid laurier up, 2003. 162-176.

"travel writing at the end of empire: a pom named bruce and the mad white giant." english studies in canada 29.3-4 (2003): 200-219.

editor, dictionary of literary biography 251: canadian fantasy and science-fiction writers. gale, 2002.

"'i saw everything but could comprehend nothing': melville's typee, travel narrative, and colonial discourse." atq: 19th century american literature and culture 16.2 (2002): 115-130.

"'a reader's guide to the intersection of time and space': urban spatialization in hugh hood's around the mountain 23.1 (1998): 238-249.

"outhouses of the european soul: imperialism in thomas pynchon."pynchon notes 40-41 (1997): 134-143.

"canadian content: cultural specificity in english-canadian popular music." canadian issues 19 (1997): 47-56.