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Dissertation Title:The Feeling of Form: The Experience of History and Twentieth-Century Novel Series

(estimated date of completion: July 2020)

Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Ross

I am a PhD candidate in English at the ³Ô¹ÏÍø (2015– ). My research interests include twentieth-century British and Irish literature, modernism, critical theory, affect ³Ô¹ÏÍø, and environmental humanities. My dissertation looks at the relationship between aesthetic feelings, literary forms, and the experience of history in twentieth-century novel series, especially works by Ford Madox Ford, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Lawrence Durrell, and Kazuo Ishiguro. I am the co-founder and co-organizer (with Kevin Tunnicliffe) of “,” an interdisciplinary modernist reading group at UVic. In the past, I worked as the project manager of the online (2015–2017) and Sessional Instructor of at UVic (Fall 2017–Spring 2018).

Selected Scholarly Activity

• “Atmospheric Violence: Samuel Beckett’s Aesthetics of Respiration.” LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, 30. 2 (2019): 103–119.
• “The Politics of Naming.” Modernism/modernity print plus, 7 February 2019,
• “A Meditation on Earworms and Breath Sounds.” Phono-Fictions and Other Felt Thoughts. Edited by David Cecchetto, Noxious Sector Press, 2016. 143–62.
• “Fei Ming.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Gen. ed. Stephen Ross. Routledge, 2016 (encyclopedia entry)
• “Hai Zi.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Gen. ed. Stephen Ross. Routledge, 2016 (encyclopedia entry)
• “Samuel Beckett.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Gen. ed. Stephen Ross. Routledge, 2016 (encyclopedia entry)
• “Zhou Zuoren.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Gen. ed. Stephen Ross. Routledge, 2016 (encyclopedia entry)