About me

I'm a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at Western University, writing a book called Working Feeling: Affect, Agriculture, Romanticism and completing my master beekeeping certificate through Cornell. I earned my PhD in English Literature and Science and Technology Studies from the University of British Columbia, where I was a Vanier Scholar and Killam Fellow.

My first book, Whistling at the Plough: Poetic Infrastructure from Improvement to Romanticism, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. I’m also writing papers on resignation in labour history and the poetry of John Clare, MAHA’s new DGA and the writing of Percy Shelley, late honey bee queen replacement, and the concept of ladenness in philosophy of science and the poetry of John Keats.

I live in rural Ontario on my family’s fruit and vegetable farm, where I handle beekeeping, food safety, and field crews. From daily farm work to research on agricultural literature, my life’s oriented around agriculture. I’m curious about our experience of food and farming, which exists within the long historical convergence of nature and labour and means our experience of those, too, and even our experience in general. I hope to use my research as a foundation for sustainable community-building and public education.