In addition to teaching literature, media, critical theory, writing, and research creation, I’m privileged to collaborate and share in experimental creative and critical work done through multi-disciplinary research networks like Just Powers, Petrocultures, and After Oil. 

As an emerging and evolving field, the energy humanities recognizes that today’s critical social and pedagogical challenges require collaboration across disciplines, media, and creative practices. That’s why I’m especially excited to work with student (and to mentor graduate students) interested in environments, non-human or more-than-human animals, in material cultures of energy or extraction, settler-colonialism, as well as those interested in Marxisms, feminisms, and critical theories.

Publications

I am the co-editor of Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture (2017), which will soon enter its second printing from McGill-Queens University Press; and I was a contributing author to the collaborative, open-access volume After Oil (West Virginia UP 2016). 

My recent publications include essays in Canadian Literature, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, and Energy Humanities. Listen to the Just Powers Podcast S1E0 – On Petrocultures: Or, Why We Need to Understand Oil to Understand Everything Else.