Academic appointments

2002-current	TAPoR Lexicographical Applications Analyst Information Technology Services University of Toronto Libraries University of Toronto	Lexicons of Early Modern English
2001-04	Lecturer English Department University of Toronto	ENG 100: Effective Writing (twice) ENG 110: Narrative ENG 214: Short Story Collection (twice) ENG 322: Fiction to 1832 ENG 324: Fiction 1832 to 1900 (thrice)

Education

1994-2000	Ph. D. English	University of Toronto
1992-94	M. A. English	McGill University
1990-92	B. A. English	McGill University
1987-90	B. Sc. Physics	Université Laval
1985-87	D. E. C. pure and applied sciences	St. Lawrence C.E.G.E.P. Ste-Foy, Québec
1980-85	D. E. S.	Katimavik High School Ste-Foy, Québec

Ph. D. dissertation: "The Musical Aesthetics of the Poetry of Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson"
Supervisor: W. David Shaw
Degree awarded: June 2001

M. A. thesis: "Music in the Poetry of Robert Browning"
Supervisor: Kerry McSweeney

Publications

"Computer-Assisted Phonetic Analysis of English Poetry: A Preliminary Case Study of Browning and Tennyson."  Text Technology 14 (2005): 153-75. (online).

"Virtual Verse Analysis: Analysing Patterns in Poetry."  Literary and Linguistic Computing. Forthcoming in print. (online)

" 'What do you mean by your mountainous fugues?': A Musical Reading of Browning's 'A Toccata of Galuppi's' and 'Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha.' "  Victorian Poetry 37.3 (1999): 309-31.

"Chorley, John Rutter."  Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.  Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.  11: 515-16.   Web access.

Conference papers

"Noisy verbal whirlpools of a clamorous chaos.: Poetic Classification According to a Phonetic Key." Society for Digital Humanities Annual Meeting Conference. York University, May 2006.

"Chorley and Mendelssohn; or, The Case of the Broken Hand." "Eminent Victorians," Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Midwest Victorian Studies Association. Wayne State University, April 2006.

"Beethoven, Browning, and the English Song Cycle." Modern Language Association Convention. Washington, DC, December 2005.

"Elizabethan Lyrical Nonsense in Victorian Poetry." "The Nine Lives of Victorian Poetry," Victorians Institute Annual Meeting. University of North Carolina at Greensboro, April 2005.

"Computer-assisted phonetic analysis of English poetry." "The Face of Text: Computer Assisted Text Analysis in the Humanities," Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis. McMaster University, November 2004.

"Rebeautifying the Past: Victorian Aesthetic Futurity in Wyndham's Trouble with Lichen." Science Fiction Research Association, Guelph University, June 2003.

"The Dramatic Monologue and Opera Aria: Tennyson's 'Œnone.' " Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English Conference, Université Laval, May 2001.

"Muscular Christianity in The Holy Grail."  Victorian Studies Association of Ontario, Ryerson University, April 1998.

"Foreign Frippery: A Study of Henry Fothergill Chorley's German Music Criticism."  Victorians and the Germanic, Midwest Victorian Studies Association, University of Illinois at Chicago, April 1997.

"The Disinherited Virtuoso: A Transformation from Scientist to Musician."  Legacies: A Cross-disciplinary Conference, Nineteenth-Century Group, University of Toronto, September 1996.

Other professional employment

Applications Programmer / Analyst, for Lexicons of Early Modern English. Duties include designing and programming a database-based website for hundreds of Early-Modern English dictionaries. Supervisors: Ian Lancashire and Sian Meikle. Information Technology Services of the University of Toronto Libraries.  2002-04, part-time; 2004-current, full-time.

Web programmer for Representative Poetry Online. Duties include designing and programming a new web site for RPO: replacing the static site with a dynamic site with many automated tasks. Supervisors: Ian Lancashire, Alan Darnell, and Sian Meikle. Information Technology Services of the University of Toronto Libraries.  2001-02.

Graduate Assistant Library Technician for Canadian Poetry: a web project hosted by the University of Toronto Libraries. Duties include web development and contact with Canadian poets. Supervisor: Sophia Kaszuba.  2000-01.

Research assistant for the Collected Works of Northrop Frye project at Victoria University in the University of Toronto. Duties include library research and proofreading.  Supervisor: Jean O'Grady.  1994-1999.

Research assistant for UTEL: The University of Toronto English (Electronic) Library.  Duties include encoding texts for the Web database, maintaining the Web pages and the database, and preparing a hypertext version of A. G. Rigg's The English Language: A Historical Reader, which involved determining a new method for displaying Old English and Middle English characters on the Web using JavaScript programming.  Supervisor: Ian Lancashire.  1997-1998.

Other professional activities

Teaching assistant: American Fiction Since 1960, Technical Writing, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Major British Writers, Twentieth-Century Canadian Fiction, Children's Literature, Reading Poetry.  Various duties including grading papers, leading tutorial sessions, and lecturing.

Guest lecture: "Studying Browning's 'My Last Duchess' Using the Web."  Second part of the special session English in Cyberspace, University of Toronto, November 1998.

Co-organizer of Beauty in the Nineteenth Century: A Cross-Disciplinary Conference, University College, University of Toronto, September 19-20, 1997.

Member of various committees of the Graduate English Association and the English Department of the University of Toronto. Designed and programmed the Web version of the Graduate English Association Directory, using JavaScript.