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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 ·¬ÇÑÉçÇø (2015– ). My research interests include twentieth-century British and Irish literature, modernism, critical theory, affect studies, 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)