CURRENT RESEARCH

Monograph in Development

A book project examining agency, materiality, and ontological instability in nineteenth-century performances of the nonhuman. The project traces how moving bodies, objects, and technologies participated in emerging conceptualizations of touch and communication across distance.
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Last of the Rhinestone Cowboys:
Expo 67’s Sunset Years

A part-archival, part-fictocritical research project tracing the cowboy as a mytho-historical figure through questions of migration, nationhood, and cultural memory. Beginning with the elusive memory of a childhood performance of a South Asian band covering Glen Campbell’s hit song, Rhinestone Cowboy, at the Man and His World Summer Fair in the 1980s (Île Sainte-Hélène), which has proven difficult to locate in the archive, the project treats archival absence as a pivot from which to engage historical and creative practice. Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.