I’ve taught all kinds of modern and contemporary literature from the early 1900s right up to the present. I'm an Associate Lecturer with the Open University in the North of England, teaching literature and humanities modules. I was Subject Area Leader in Literature at the North East Centre for Lifelong Learning from 2004 until the closure of the Centre in September 2013. I have special interests in 20th century women writers, especially Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, and 20th century and contemporary Canadian writers.
My current academic research – a development from my PhD's feminist re-reading of cyberpunk fiction – is on ideas around embodiment and technology in television series like Supernatural, Dollhouse, X-Files, Fringe and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This allows me to watch television and call it work!
