Education
Ph.D., English Literature
The University of Calgary
Masters of Arts: Literatures of Modernity
Toronto Metropolitan University
Honours Bachelor of Arts, with Distinction
(Major in English, Minors in Philosophy
& Writing and Rhetoric)
The University of Toronto
Speaking Engagements
Readings
Fantastic Fiction at KGB
January 2025
Junction Reads
Flywheel Reading Series
Rabbits Launch at Massey Arts
Rabbits Launch at Perfect Books
Rabbits Launch at Another Story Bookshop
Evening with Peter Dubé, Ryanne Kap,
& Heather J. Wood
The Violet Hour Reading Series
SpokenWeb Poetry Night
Joint Launch with Kit Dobson & Carleigh Baker
Flywheel Reading Series
The Sprawl Mag 1.1 Virtual Launch
Baseline Press, 845 Press,
& Rose Garden Press 2020 Chapbook Launch
The Bi Arts Festival Author Showcase
Conferences
The Aesthetics of Contamination: Oceanic Environments, Identities, Intermedial Research Creation
“Seeking Gentler Ends: Cross-Species Transformation in
The City of Animals”
Free Exchange Conference
“Three Bodies in a Room: The Church of the Hot Pink Jesus and the Cult of Collective Action in Apocalypse”
Conference of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE)
“Strange Birds, Bears, and Beasts under the Law: Mutations in Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne”
Conference of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE)
Co-presented with Ryanne Kap:
“The Imaginary Left of the MCU: How Film Mutates Progressivism to Conservatism in Superhero Narratives“
The Conference of Canadian Futurism
Panelist: Utopian Visions for the Future
The Kurt Vonnegut Society at American Literature Association 32nd Annual Conference
“Cat’s Cradle: The Sin of Science and Systems”
Designing the Self Conference (Humanities Graduate Student Association)
“Human Expansions: The Literary Worlds of Distributed Cognition”
RCYP Snapshots 2020/Children’s Texts and Material Cultures: A Research Snapshot Symposium
“Grief and Loss across the Spider-Verse: Death in Comics”
Excavations: 26th Annual McGill English Graduate Conference
“Queering the Cyborg: How Hybrid Bodies Can Set Us Free”
Panels & Special Events
The Conference of Canadian Futurism
Panelist: Utopian Visions for the Future
Word on the Street Toronto
Moderator: Earth Undone
Across the Universe Stage, June 2022
Word on the Street Toronto
Panelist: Human Futurism
WRR311Y1: Creative Writing Workshop
Guest Speaker
INI305Y1: Creative Writing Workshop
Guest Speaker
The 2019 Nerdtacular
Special Presentation: The Literary Cyborg
Bakka Phoenix Books & the Merril SF Collection
Panelist: Toronto as a Science Fiction and Fantasy Setting
Howl with Valentino Assenza at CIUT 89.5 FM
Guest
Ben Berman Ghan 