Concordia University (Canada)

Faculty Member, Journalism

Assistant Professor

About

My research is situated at the intersection between culture, technology, and political change, focusing on topics including new media, the cultural reception of genetics, science fiction, disaster narratives, visual culture and human rights. I have published in scholarly and cultural publications ranging from Literature and Medicine and New Literary History to Open Democracy and Journalism Practice. 

During the academic year 2011-2012, I have been conducting three concurrent research projects: a SSHRC-funded investigation into the way in which Canadian newspapers understand Internet governance; a Grand/NCE funded project on the archiving of born-digital news materials; and a Concordia-funded research project on the significance of Wikileaks for the future of journalism.

I am also currently at work on two monographs.  One considers the  representation of the post-cold war nuclear threat in film, museums and the visual arts: a portion of this will appear in American Literature in June 2012. The second, extending from my research on Wikileaks, looks at how investigative journalism negotiates the ever-increasing boundary skirmishes between traditional, institutional sites of facticity and newer, contingent sites of authority.

FInally, I am a fellow at two Concordia research centers: the Concordia Center For Broadcasting Studies and TAG (Technoculture, Art And Gaming), and the editor of the Researching Journalism page for J-Source, an online publication supported by the Canadian Journalism Foundation.

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