publications

books

family ties: living history in canadian historic homes. montreal and kingston: mcgill-queen’s university press, august 2015. available at http://www.mqup.ca/family-ties-products-9780773545625.php?page_id=118400&

museopathy revisited: artist interventions in canada and beyond. mcgill-queen’s university press, under review.  co-edited with anne koval and taryn sirove. my written contributions include a co-authored introduction and a co-authored chapter with carla taunton (nscadu, halifax, ns) entitled “rising to the occasion: valuations of indigenous agency and decolonization in royal tours, historic sites, and twelve angry crinolines in thunder bay, on.

peer reviewed journal articles

“collaborative performances of resistance in twenty-first century toronto: the encampment and occupy toronto,” journal of canadian studies, accepted, in press.

“gender, canadian nationhood, and ‘keeping house’: the cultural bureaucratization of dundurn castle.” gender and history 25.1 (april 2013): 47-64.

“claiming christmas for the tourist: ‘living history’ at dundurn castle.” journal of heritage tourism 3.2 (2008): 104-120.

“pasturizing canada: joe fafard.” fuse magazine 31.4 (september 2008): 44-46.

“shades of grace: review.” untitled: a publication of the union gallery 15.2 (august 2008): 8-9.

“un canadien errant: charles smeaton and the earliest photographs of the roman catacombs.” revue d’art canadienne/canadian art review 32.1-2 (2007): 94-106. co-authored with john osborne.

refereed book chapters

“from object base to multicultural place to digital space: the toronto museum project.” diverse spaces: examining identity, heritage and community within canadian public culture, edited by susan ashley, 61-74.  cambridge scholars press, 2013.   

“canadian holidays and heritage: (de)politicizing the past in historic homes.” canada exposed/le canada à découvert, edited by. pierre anctil, andré loiselle and christopher rolfe, pages 263-280. bruxelles, bern, berlin, frankfurt, new york, oxford, wien: peter lang publishing inc., 2009. 

“cache: provisions and productions in contemporary igloolik video.” global indigenous media: cultures, practices and politics, edited by. pamela wilson and michelle stewart, pages 74-88. durham, nc: duke university press, 2008. co-authored with the cache collective (taryn sirove, lindsay leitch, emily rothwell, erin morton, and michelle veitch).

exhibition catalogues – museums & art galleries

“the north now,” 2014 northern ontario juried exhibition [exhibition essay].  thunder bay, on: thunder bay art gallery, 2014.

“treks, traces, and technologies: an interview with julie cosgrove.”  nowhere is a place – julie cosgrove [catalogue essay].  thunder bay, on: thunder bay art gallery, 2014.

“steady on!” 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 faculty exhibition 2013 [exhibition essay].  thunder bay, on: definitely superior artist-run centre, 2013.

“from whence you came,” winds from the east [curatorial essay]. kingston, on: modern fuel artist-run centre, 2008.

the malleability of wax and meaning: marjorie winslow and twentieth- century moulage production in canada [research manuscript]. kingston, on: museum of health care at kingston, september 2007.

cache: three contemporary videos from igloolik [exhibition catalogue]. kingston, on: agnes etherington art centre, 2005.  co-authored with the cache collective (taryn sirove, lindsay leitch, emily rothwell, erin morton, and michelle veitch).

art exhibition reviews

“the currency of alex colville,” revue d’art canadienne/canadian art review 40.1 (spring 2015): 108-10.

“making memories at mackenzie house.” heritage toronto – telling toronto’s stories. toronto: heritage toronto, august 2011. available at http://heritagetoronto.org/manufacturing-memories/

“pasturizing canada: joe fafard.” fuse magazine 31.4 (september 2008): 44-46.      

“shades of grace: review.” untitled: a publication of the union gallery 15.2 (august 2008): 8-9.

“preserving realpolitik: a conversation with marie-hélène cousineau of arnait video productions.” fuse magazine 28.3 (2005): 15-19.  co-authored with the cache collective (taryn sirove, lindsay leitch, emily rothwell, erin morton, and michelle veitch).

book reviews

“review of rethinking professionalism: women and art in canada, 1870-1970, edited by kristina huneault and janice anderson; defining the modern museum: a case study of the challenges of exchange by lianne mctavish,” revue d’art canadienne/ canadian art review 38.1 (2013): 108-113.