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Assistant Professor, Western University

I lecture in the areas of television and radio studies, media representation, and social change. My research interests include housing affordability and tenant's rights, therapeutic narratives, and the politics of loss.

Experience

  • 2013–present
    Assistant Professor, Western University

Education

  • 2019 
    University of Western Ontario, PhD
  • 2007 
    Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), MA in Media Studies
  • 1999 
    University of Manitoba, B.Ed
  • 1995 
    University of Manitoba, BA

Publications

  • 2020
    Antiheroines of Contemporary Media, From “Basic Bitch” to “Boss Bitch”: Morality & Motherhood in NBC’s Good Girls
  • 2013
    Television and New Media, Bootcamp, Brides, and BMI: Biopedagogical Narratives of Health and Belonging on Canadian Size-Transformation Television