Publications since 2009
- “Poet and Beggar: Edmund White’s Blindness.” Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability, ed. Alice Hall, Routledge, 2020, pp. 181-192.
- “Blindness: Creating and Consuming a Non-Visual Culture.” A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century. Martha Stoddard Holmes and Joyce Huff eds., Bloomsbury, 2019, pp. 79-95.
- “‘Mountains might be marked by a drop of glue’: Blindness, Touch & Tactile Maps.” Victorian Environments, Michelle Smith and Grace Moore eds. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 97-114.
- “Readymade Code: Braille in Contemporary Visual Culture.” Disability Studies Quarterly (38:2) 2018; https://dsq-sds.org/article/view/6471
- “Blindness and Design: Kneass’ Philadelphia Magazine for the Blind (1899).” Object Lessons / Special Issue, Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge eds.; Cahiers Victoriens et Eduardiens (84) Fall 2016; https://journals.openedition.org/cve/2996
- “Blind Authors and Blind Readers.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature, Dino Felluga, Pamela Gilbert, and Linda Hughes eds. (2015).
- “How a Blind Man Saw”: Exhibitions and Visually Disabled Visitors in Victorian Britain / “Comment un aveugle a vu l’Exposition international”: Spectateurs malvoyants dans la Grande-Bretagne victorienne. Corpus: Revue de Philosophie 67 (2014): 109-132.
- "Between the Sheets: Contagion, Touch, and Text.” 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, 19 (2014): 1-9. http://19.bbk.ac.uk
- “‘So that the sense of touch may supply the want of sight’: Blind Reading in Nineteenth-Century Britain.” Media, Technology, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century: Image, Sound, Touch. Colette Colligan and Margaret Linley eds. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. 43-64.
- “Clearing the Streets: Blindness and Begging in Henry Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor.” City Limits: Perspectives on the Historical European City. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2010. 205-226.
- “‘To Invest a Cripple with Peculiar Interest’: Money, Mobility and Prosthetics at Mid-Century.” Victorian Review 35:2, Fall 2009: 83-100.
Awards
- Students’ Teachers Recognition Award (2018)
- University of Manitoba, Merit Award for Service (2015)
- Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Campbell Outreach Award; “Award in recognition of outstanding outreach by a member of the University” (2015)
- University of Manitoba; Merit Award for Teaching (2009)
- Olive Beatrice Stanton Award for Excellence in Teaching (2008)
- University of Manitoba; Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award (2007)
Positions Held
Recent and Current Courses
- Poetry of Mourning
- The Victorian Body
- Literature and the Museum
- Paper Chase: Documents and Detection in Victorian Literature
- Disability Studies: Methods
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