Teaching and Supervision

Areas of Teaching and Research

  • Environmental Humanities and Ecocriticism
    • Postcolonial ecocriticism and ecopoetics, geopoetics, environmental literary activism
    • African literatures, oral and vernacular language literatures, literatures in English and French
    • World literature, comparative culture and arts
    • Environmental justice: race, gender, species
  • Cultural Geography and Critical Development Studies
    • Extractivism, history and cultural politics of extractive industries
    • Uneven development
    • Representations of development; gender, culture and development; arts in and as development
  • Research Creation and Literary Arts Practice
    • Ecopoetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction writing as scholarly and activist practice
    • Community arts and cultural democracy

Graduate Courses

  • School of European Languages, Cultures and Society, University College London, UK
  • Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, Canada
    •  Special Topics in Sustainability
    •  Professional Development in Interdisciplinary Studies

Undergraduate Courses

  • Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
    • Studies in Postcolonial Literature
    • Modes of Reading
  • School of Languages, Cultures and Society, University College London, UK
  • Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, Canada
    • Reading Animals
    • Environmental Literature
    • Readings in Narrative
    • Studies in Composition
  • Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada
    • Tropical Conservation and Sustainable Development
    • Human/Non-human Animal Relations

Community College Courses

  • Coast Mountain College, Hazelton and Smithers, Canada
    • Auxiliary Career and College Preparation Instructor
    • Computer Science 111, University Credit program
    • Environmental Monitoring, School of Exploration and Mining