Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
PhD, Literature, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL
MA, Critical Theory, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON
BA, Political Science, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL
EXPERIENCE
Director, strategic communications – University of Waterloo (2023-present)
Manager, integrated communications – University of Waterloo (2022-23)
Communications officer – University of Waterloo (2021-22)
Journalist – Freelance for CBC, Ricochet, The Independent NL, and others (2012-22)
Communications consultant – KeynoteCSR (2017-21)
Researcher – Memorial University, UArctic (2011-17)
Instructor – Memorial University, Department of English (2011-17)
Communications officer – Social Justice Cooperative NL (2013-16)
Manager, editor, and referee – Postscript: A Journal of Theory and Practice (2011-13)
Course coordinator – Writing 1P93 (Essay Writing for Social Sciences), Brock University (2009-10)
Research assistant – Council of 3M National Teaching Fellows (2009-10)
Copy editor – Brock University, Department of Adult Education (2009)
Research assistant – Brock University, Applied Disabilities Studies (2008-09)
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The Manager’s Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Managing People at Work, University of London, 2023
Cultivating Safe Spaces Training with Elaine Alec, 2023
Working Effectively With Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Corporate Training Inc, 2022
Extractive Industries Graduate Certificate, University of the Arctic, 2016
Facilitator Development Workshop (FDW), ISW Network, 2010
Instructional Skills Workshop, ISW Network, 2009
Brock University Teaching and Learning Certificate, 2009
BOOKS
COVID-19 and Ethics in Canada: The Failure of Common Decency. HCE Press, 2022.
Expressive Subjects: 25 Writing Prompts to Unleash Your Creativity. HCE Press, 2018.
Everyday Dissent: Politics and Resistance in Newfoundland and Labrador. HCE Press, 2016.
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
“Anarchism and Unconventional Oil.” Materialism and the Critique of Energy. Ed. Brent Ryan Bellamy and Jeff Diamanti. MCM Prime, 2018.
“Direct Democracy.” Improving Democratic Governance in Newfoundland and Labrador. Ed. Alex Marland and Lisa Moore. ISER Books, 2017.
Resistance in Contemporary Newfoundland Fiction. Dissertation. Memorial University, Department of English, 2017.
“Resistance to Extractive Industries in Newfoundland and Labrador.” Circumpolar Notes – Arctic Extractive Industries, 4 (2015).
“Branded Newfoundland: Lisa Moore’s Alligator and Consumer Capitalism.” Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, 28.1 (2013).
“Form, Content, Function: Phenomenology and/in Sign-Language Poetry.” Schutzian Research, 3 (2011).
“The Naming Compulsion in Dillon Wallace’s The Lure of the Labrador Wild and Mina Hubbard’s A Woman’s Way through Unknown Labrador.” Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, 26.1 (2011).
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (partial list)
“Social Ecology, Energy Humanities, and Community Clout.” The Future, The Arts, and Ecology, Memorial University, St. John’s, 2016.
“Radical Flank Effect and Absurd Demands: Oil and Climate Change.” Petrocultures, Memorial University, St. John’s, 2016.
“Improvisation in Poetry and Street Politics.” Improvising Spaces Workshop and Speaker Series, Memorial University, St. John’s, 2015.
“Discourse Analysis: Newfoundland and Labrador’s Oil Ambitions and Climate Change.” UArctic Extractive Industries, Memorial University, St. John’s, 2015.
“PhZine.” Future Humanities: Transforming Graduate Studies for the Future of Canada, McGill, Montreal, 2015.
“Resistance to Extractive Industries in Newfoundland and Labrador.” UArctic Extractive Industries, Northeastern Federal University, Neryungri, Russia, 2014.
“Cultural Capital and Propaganda of the Deed in Wayne Johnston’s The Colony of Unrequited Dreams.” Thomas H. Raddall Symposium, Acadia University, 2013.
“Toward a Phenomenology of Poetry.” The Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists (ICNAP), 2012.
“Form, Content, Function: Phenomenology and/in Sign Language Poetry.” The Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists (ICNAP), 2011.
“A Freirean Approach to Critical Literacy and Online Creative Writing.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE), 2010.
“Bildungsroman as Roman à Clef: Meta-narrative and Slackening the Intentional Strings.” Narrative Matters, 2010.
“Describing a Collaborative, Group-based Phenomenological Analysis.” Existential Phenomenology, Theory and Culture (EPTC), 2010.
“Resistance to Creative Expressive Work: Tales of Glory and Woe.” Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE), 2010.
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS (partial list)
Speaker, “Lack of Ethics: How Canada is failing with COVID-19”
Briefing for Protect our Province BC, 2022
Facilitator, Vitae Writer’s Retreat
School of Graduate Studies, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, 2017-19
Speaker, It’s Social, Panel and Workshop
Refugee and Immigrant Advisory Council, St. John’s, NL, 2016
Facilitator, Radicalism Defined, Workshop for Social Justice Co-op
Memorial University, St. John’s, NL, 2015
Facilitator, Refugees Welcome Teach-In, Workshop for Refugees Welcome
Political Science Department, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL, 2015
Speaker, Press Conference on Fracking for NL Fracking Awareness Group
Memorial University, St. John’s, NL, 2015
Host, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Oil, and Fracking Public Roundtable
Grenfell Campus, Memorial University, Corner Brook, NL, 2015
Facilitator, Strategy and Tactics Workshop for regional anti-fracking organizations
Grenfell Campus, Memorial University, Corner Brook, NL, 2015
Facilitator, May Day Forum, Workshops for Social Justice Co-op AGM
Rocket Room, St. John’s, NL, 2014
Facilitator, Demo-X: An Experiment in Democracy, Workshop for Social Justice Co-op
City Hall, St. John’s, NL, 2013
Host, Art Is My Occupation, Arts and activism variety show
Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s, NL, 2012
MEDIA WORK AND APPEARANCES (partial list)
Freelance journalist, published in CBC, Ricochet, The Independent NL, etc., 2011-21 (link)
Telegraph Journal (New Brunswick), Interview on COVID-19 and Ethics in Canada, 2022 (link)
CBC News, Interview on COVID-19 and Ethics in Canada, 2022 (link)
NTV News, Interview on COVID-19 and Ethics in Canada, 2022 (link)
CBC News, Interview on anti-austerity demonstration, 2016 (link)
VOCM News, Interview on anti-austerity demonstration, 2016 (link)
CBC News, Interview on Refugees Welcome movement, 2015 (link)
CBC News, Interview on Bill C-51, 2015 (link)
VOCM News, Interview on Bill C-51, 2015 (link)
The Telegram, Interview on fracking public event, 2015 (link)
The Western Star, Interview on fracking public event, 2015 (link)
The Tyee, “Fight for Right to Sleep Goes Cross-Country” Reprint, 2013 (link)
Al Jazeera English, Clip on Ukraine protest media analysis, 2013 (link)
ADVOCACY AND VOLUNTEERING (partial list)
Academic and athletic mentor, Urban Squash Toronto, 2019-2022
Organizer, Coordinated Approach NL, 2016-17
Regional coordinator (Newfoundland) Refugees Welcome Canada, 2015
Board member, Social Justice Cooperative Newfoundland and Labrador, 2013-16
Organizer, East Coast Ecology Awareness Group, 2012-2016
Founder/Organizer, People’s Assembly Newfoundland and Labrador, 2012
Organizer, Story Slam Niagara, 2008-2010
ACADEMIC AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Fellow of the School of Graduate Studies, Memorial University, 2015
Graduate Student of the Month, Memorial University, 2015
Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) Doctoral Fellowship, 2014
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship, 2013
Elected Scholar, International Communicology Institute (ICI), 2013
Memorial University Doctoral Fellowship, 2010
Brock University Graduate Fellowship, 2008
MEMBERSHIPS IN SCHOLARLY SOCIETIES
Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists (ICNAP)
Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE)
International Communicology Institute (ICI)
Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE)
CREATIVE AND ARTISTIC (partial list)
Power and Resistance: The Muskrat Falls Hydro Project. Documentary film.
Writer / Producer / Director. (Forthcoming, 44 mins.)
“Anonymoose,” Short agitprop film. (link)
Actor.
“More Tragedy than Farce.” Prose poem. Landwash, 1.1, Feb. 2014, 16-17. (link)
“Ontopoetics.” Digital Poetry Chapbook. Website. (Reproduced in Ditch, Nov. 2011.)
“I Sail,” “Metaphysics,” “Words,” “I hear you say, I hear,” “Untitled,” “Since I had nothing to say and had to say something.” Poems. Ditch, Oct. 2009. (link)
REVIEWS (partial list)
“Pathways of Creativity in Contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador.” ARIEL, 48.2 (2017).
“Rabbit Rabbit, Poverty Cove Theatre Company.” The Independent (April 2014).
“Lisa Moore’s Caught.” The Independent (Oct. 2013).
REFERENCES
Available on request.