Areas of Teaching and Research

• Environmental Humanities and Ecocriticism
  • Environmental justice: race, gender, species
  • Environmental literary activism, postcolonial ecocriticism and ecopoetics, geopoetics
  • African and Indigenous literatures, oral and vernacular language literatures
• Human Geography and Critical Development Studies
  • Histories of extractive industries and uneven development
  • Representations of development; gender, culture and development; arts in and as development
• Literary arts practice
  • Ecopoetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction writing as scholarly and activist practice
  • Community arts and cultural democracy

Graduate Courses Taught

• Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, Canada
  •  Special Topics in Sustainability (Fall 2019)
  •  Professional Development in Interdisciplinary Studies (Fall 2019 – Winter 2020)

Undergraduate Courses Taught

• Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, Canada
  • Reading Animals (Winter 2021)
  • Environmental Literature (Fall 2020)
  • Readings in Narrative (Winter 2020 – Fall 2021)
  • Studies in Composition (Winter 2020)
• Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada
  • Tropical Conservation and Sustainable Development (TA, Fall 2013 and 2014)
  • Human/Non-human Animal Relations (TA, Winter 2013)
  • Transnational Literature and the Politics of Empire, Colonialism and Development (Fall 2016 [Cancelled])

Community College Teaching

• Coast Mountain College, Hazelton and Smithers, Canada
  • Auxiliary Career and College Preparation Instructor (November 2017-May 2018)
  • Computer Science 111, University Credit program (Instructor, Fall 2012)
  • Environmental Monitoring, School of Exploration and Mining (Instructor, Fall 2012)