I’m an Assistant Professor of English and French at St Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada, where I teach courses across 19th-21st century literature and cinema. In my research, I’m interested in what aesthetic practices can teach us about our embodied life and our capacity for creation and experimentation, drawing upon the resources of critical and psychoanalytic theory, philosophies of the subject, and the modernist tradition in the arts.

I’ve published articles on the work of philosophers and political theorists such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Claude Lefort, and Karl Marx; authors such as Samuel Beckett, Gustave Flaubert, and Eça de Queirós; and filmmakers such as the Dardenne Brothers and Alfred Hitchcock. On this website you can learn about my publications, translations, teaching, and more.