Works on Writing Pedagogies
- My research focuses on writing pedagogy at the intersection of creative writing and composition, with an emphasis on social and collaborative practice. Currently, I’m at work on a study of writing workshops.
“Entering the Room: Qualitative Research in Writing Workshops.” Forthcoming in Innovations in Creative Writing Studies Research: Methods, Methodologies, Practices. Peter Lang Press.
“’A story we’re telling’: Pasts and Possibilities in Writing Workshops.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition and Culture, vol 24, issue 2, April 2024. pp215-238.
“Other Disseminations.” Recollections from an Uncommon Time: 4C20 Documentarian Tales. Studies in Writing and Rhetoric Series, Steve Parks, ed. CCCC/NCTE, 2023.
“The Gift of a Source.” Dynamic Activities for First-Year Composition. Michal Reznizki and David Coad, eds. NCTE, 2023.
“A View from Somewhere: Situating the Public Problem in Creative Writing Workshops” JAEPL, vol 27, 2022.
“Grading What We Value: A Conversation for Creative Writing.” With Jason McCormick. Journal of Creative Writing Studies, vol 6, iss 2.
“The Social and Material Dimensions of Virtual Consulting.” With Charlotte Kupsh. The Dangling Modifier, Spring 2021.
“Teaching Creativity: Lessons in Metaphor for the Composition Classroom.” Writing on the Edge. 2019.
“What is a Poem: Writing Towards a Wilder Definition of Poetry.” Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry. Ed. Matthew Burgess. New York, NY: Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 2019.
Creative Essays on Teaching & Writing
“Onomatopoeia for the sound of a gun” Pidgeonholes. 2019.
“On Trees and Tearing.” Entropy. December 30, 2016.
Work for Teachers & Writers Collaborative
Through my work as a teaching artist for T&W, I wrote a range of pedagogical pieces, which are available in their online magazine. Some favorites:
On teaching: “In Defense of Teaching Difficult Poems” (2018) and “What is a Poem in 2017? Middle School & the Politics of Poetry” (2017)
Lesson Plans: “Visualizing Revision” (2018) and “Revision by Translation” (2018)
A two-part roundtable on plagiarism and intertextuality: “Poets Doing What Poets Do” (2017) and “This Period of Necessary Creative Plagiarism” (2018)
Other Research
Place-based and historical projects in my hometown of Edmonton, Alberta.
“The Landscape of Desire” New Trail, Autumn 2020, pp 19.
“Drawing Lines.” In This Together: Fifteen Stories of Truth and Reconciliation. Brindle & Glass. 2016.
“Social Mobility: Charting the Economic Topography of Urban Space.” with Heather Zwicker and Kisha Supernant. Journal of Television and New Media. 2016.
Behind the Ivory Stucco: A History of Westglen School. Westglen Parent Association. 2015.
“Drawings We Have Lived: Mapping Desire Lines in Edmonton.” Constellations 4.1. 2012.