Talks

Academic Conference Papers

“Learning Management Platforms: Notes on Teaching “Taroko Gorge” in a Pandemic.” Electronic Literature Organization Conference, 26 May 2021. (Accepted)

“Watch Where You Point That Thing: The Strange Case of Digital Supplements in the Late 1990s.” Future Horizons: Canadian Literature and Public Debate in the Digital Age (Accepted, Postponed)

“Gender and Canadian Digital Poetics with Asterisks.” Woman E-lit: 10th Anniversary of the Electronic Literature Lab, 30 March 2021

“The Muddle of Our Thinking: The Transnational Imaginary of David Clark’s 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Toronto (Remote), 10 January 2021

“Oceans too must change: Canisia Lubrin’s Voodoo Hypothesis and the Anthropocene.” Text/Sound/Performance, Dublin, Ireland, 27 April 2019

“‘The code might not necessarily be the text’: Mark Sutherland’s Code X.” Kanada Koncrete, Ottawa, ON, 5 May 2018

“A Purely Financial Collaboration: Joyce as Computer in John Cage’s ‘Writing Through Finnegans Wake.’” Diasporic Joyce: North American James Joyce Symposium, Toronto, ON, 22 June 2017

“Oversharing: Canadian E-Lit and the Lyric Subject.” “TrashCan Roundtable.” ACQL Conference at ACCUTE Congress, Toronto, ON, 28 May 2017

“Towards a Theory of Canadian Digital Poetics.” “Digital Textualities/Canadian Contexts.” CWRC Conference, Edmonton, AB, 22 September 2016

“I want you to do me: Jim Andrews and New Media Poetry.” “The Concept of Vancouver.” Two Days of Canada Conference, St. Catherines, ON, 14 October 2016

“Détours: Resistant Geographies in JR Carpenter’s in absentia.” ACCUTE Congress, Calgary, AB, 18 May 2016

“Subsequent Screenings: The Legacy of bpNichol in Canadian Digital Poetry & Elit.” Poetics: (The Next) 25 Years, SUNY Buffalo, 15 April 2016

“Code X: Experiment as Digital in Canadian Elit.” NeMLA Annual Convention, Hartford, CT, 19 March 2016

“A Troll with Tenure: Kenneth Goldsmith’s ‘The Body of Michael Brown.’” EGSA Colloquium, York University, 7 May 2015

“No Authors: Writing the Online Dissertation with a [generic pronoun].” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL. 9 January 2014

“No Authors: A Postanarchist Reading of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov.” Beyond the Border: The Vancouver Poetry Conference, University of East Anglia. Norwich, UK. 23 November 2013

“Can’t Buy Me Love: Robert Duncan’s Politics & Poetics of ‘Plagiarism.’” CAAS Conference, University of Waterloo. 26 October 2013

“Waterfalls or Ideograms: John Cage’s ‘62 Mesostics re Merce Cunningham’ as Failed Experiments.” EGSA Colloquium, York University, 11 May 2013

“Inging: Writing for the Second Time through John Cage’s ‘62 Mesostics re Merce Cunningham.” University of Toronto English Graduate Students’ Colloquium, University of Toronto, 9 May 2013

“Dead Man Walking: Frenzied Masculinity in AMC’s The Walking Dead.” EGSA Colloquium, York University, 9 November 2012

“Illegible Poems, Intelligible Bodies: John Cage’s ‘62 Mesostics re Merce Cunningham,’” SAGE Colloquium, University of Waterloo, 18 June 2010

Lectures and Panelist Talks

Invited Speaker, “ENGC09 Canadian Poetry,” Undergraduate Course taught by Daniel Scott Tysdal, University of Toronto @ Scarborough, 24 March 2021

Invited Panelist, “Language, Liberation, and Design.” Moderated by Kaie Kellough, Queen’s University 2021 Writer in Residence, 16 March 2021

Invited Speaker, “Studies in Technology and Culture: Electronic Literature,” Graduate Course taught by Dene Grigar, Washington State University, 18 March 2019

Small Press, Big Ideas: Roundtable.” Toronto International Festival of Authors. Harbourfront Centre, 26 October 2019

Panels Moderated

“Trans/forming the Machine: Feminist Interventions in Digital Poetics.” ACCUTE Congress, Toronto, 30 May 2017(Sponsored by the ELO)

“Decoding Canadian Digital Poetics.” NeMLA, Baltimore, March 2017

“Gender, Identity and Society: Revisiting Womanhood,” EGSA Colloquium, York University, 9 May 2014

Poetry Readings

Poetry Reading: Lit Live, Hamilton, ON (Remote), 7 February 2021

Poets 5 a 7, with Cornelia Hoogland (Remote), 23 January 2021

Windsor BookFest, Windsor, ON (Remote), 18 October 2020

Word on the Street Literary Festival, Toronto (Remote), 26 September 2020

Launch of Gary Barwin’s For it is a Surprise and a Pleasure to Breathe, knife|fork|book 2020

Poetry Reading, Launch of Shaun Braune’s Dendrite Balconies, 27 September 2019

Poetry Reading, On the Line: A Special Night of Readings in Solidarity, Wisebar, Toronto, 14 June 2018

Poetry Reading, Invisible Launch, The Brandscape, Toronto, 10 May 2018

Poetry Reading, Koncrete Kanada, Ottawa, 6 May 2018

EGSA Spring Reading, Voodoo Child, Toronto, 20 April 2017

Launch of Sean Braune’s The Vitamins of an Alphabet, Grey Tiger, Toronto, 11 April 2016