Scholar

An expert on critical approaches to life stories, my work is driven by questions of relations and a deep commitment to repair. Working at the intersection of life stories, diasporic memory, and cultural practice, with particular focus on histories of injury, and discourses of redress and reconciliation — my scholarship explores how testimonial literature and art invites us to become witnesses (rather than readers or spectators), to contend with the gaps between our aspired values, shared narratives, and lived realities.

Whether working in literary and visual arts, museums and archives, or other educational and cultural institutions, my research practice focuses on inheriting difficult knowledge, weaving diverse ways of knowing, centering survivors and communities' agency and aims, and fostering socially-responsible spaces for learning and dialogue.

After earning my PhD in English from the University of Alberta (2020), I am currently an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University, the editor of In Search of Right Relations (forthcoming in 2027 with Wilfrid Laurier University Press), and project advisor for the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives project at the University of Victoria.