Theory has always informed my art practice. More recently I’ve engaged in theory for its own sake. Having always been interested in popular culture as sign system, as ideology and as resource for identity, I became a scholar of television. Certain excerpts from my M.A. and Ph.D. theses have circulated as conference papers and published articles, and some of them can be accessed below.

Ph.D. Dissertation:

I FEEL Canadian: Affective Practices of Nation and Nationalism on Canadian Television

M.A. Thesis:

Thesis: "Lucy and Ellen, Roseanne and Ally: Sexed Bodies and the Reproduction of Normalcy in Four Eras of Television Comedy"

Scholarly Books and Articles:

Feeling Canadian: Nation, Nationalism and Affect on Canadian Television
Wilfred Laurier University Press, Forthcoming, 2008.

"Whose Child Am I? The Quebec Referendum and the Language of Affect and the Body", in Druick, Zoe and Kotsopoulos, Anastasia eds.,
Television Between Reality and Fiction: The Canadian Case, Forthcoming, Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2007. Invited Chapter

"It’s Not About the Sex: Racialized Queerness in ‘Ellen’ and ‘The Ellen Degeneres Show’", Canadian Woman Studies Journal, Winter 2005. Refereed.

"Whose Child Am I? The Quebec Referendum and the Language of Affect and the Body", in Druick, Zoe and Kotsopoulos, Anastasia eds., Television Between Reality and Fiction: The Canadian Case, Forthcoming, 2007.

"Homeland (In) Security: Roots and Displacement from New York to Toronto to Salt Lake City ", Reconstruction: An Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies Journal, Summer 2003, Vol. 3 #3. Refereed.

"Other Tongues: Language and Hybridity in Recent Canadian Video Art." In Glowacka, Dorota ed., Between Ethics and Aesthetics: Crossing the Boundaries. Albany: SUNY Press, 2002. 293-300. Invited Chapter.

"Queer Becoming Corporate, Corporate Becoming Queer: An Ethology":, Queen: A Journal of Rhetoric and Power, Vol 2.1 "Power and Recolonization", Winter 2002. Refereed.

"Bordercrossings: Skin/Voice/Identity", in Wendy Waring ed., By For & About: Feminist Cultural Politics, Women's Press: 1994. Invited Chapter.