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I am Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of English Language and Literatures and Chair of CAP. My research has focused on contemporary American literature and its relation to crisis and memory; currently I am working on a project that examines pedagogies of poetry and suggests methods ...Read more

I have three main research projects. The first is investigating Vancouver’s new economy and its effects on the city. I am undertaking this project in collaboration with Tom Hutton, School of Planning UBC. We have examined the video game industry, as well as architecture, and plan also to investigate the film and TV, and fashion industries. The second is a history of American geography from the Second World War through the Cold War. The project stems from an earlier one concerned with geography’s quantitative revolution. It became clear that the roots of that revolution lay in Cold War, and earlier, Second World War, social scientific methods, aims, and above all money. The research is primarily archival. The  last is a continuing interest in forest economies, primarily BC’s, but also those in the Antipodes....Read more