Education
PhD Religious Studies, McMaster University
Current
MA Religious Studies, McMaster University
2016
BA, Religion and Culture/International Development Studies, University of Winnipeg
2012
Teaching Experience
Mysticism (University of Waterloo)
2023
Bible and Film (McMaster University)
2023
TA Experience
Death and Dying: Comparative Views
2013, 2021, 2022
Cults, Conspiracies, and Close Encounters
2019, 2022
Love
2021
Spirits, Ghosts and Demons
2020, 2021
What on Earth is Religion?
2019, 2020
Sport and/as Religion
2018
Images of the Divine Feminine
2014
Health, Aging and Society
2014
Publications
Co-authored with Travis Kroeker. “Eros, Eating, Attention: The Ethics of Incarnation in Augustine and Simone Weil,” in Augustine & Ethics, eds. Sean Hannan and Kim Paffenroth. Rowman and Littlefield.
Forthcoming, 2023
“Sacramental Vision in Annie Dillard’s Holy the Firm,” Literature and Theology 34/1, 64-82.
2020
Conference Presentations
“Simone Weil’s Eucharistic Vision of Labour”
– American Weil Society, University of Colorado, Boulder
April 2023
“Christ the Bread of Life in Augustine’s Homilies on John” – Canadian Society of Patristic Studies, University of Alberta (online)
June 2021
Awards
Mary Margaret Scammell Travel Scholarship
2023
Junior Weillienne Scholar’s Grant
2023
SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship
2021-2023
Student Essay Prize, Canadian Society of Patristic Studies
2020, 2021
Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2019
Graduate Scholarship, McMaster
2018-2021
Ogilvie Graduate Scholarship
2018
Academic Service
Graduate Student Representative, Graduate Affairs Committee
2021-2022
Executive Committee Member, Graduate Student Association of Religious Studies
2019-2021
Graduate Student Representative, Chair Selection Committee
2020-2021
Graduate Student Representative, Faculty Department Meetings
2019-2020
Research Interests
Christian mysticism
Religious ethics
Religion and literature
Religion and ecology
Research Languages
French – Intermediate proficiency
German – Elementary proficiency
Classical Greek – Elementary proficiency