About Me

I am an Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies and director of the Research on Comics, Con Events, and Transmedia Laboratory at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

My current research focuses on the comic con and festival sector. I’m also a co-investigator on the What Were Comics? project with Bart Beaty, Nick Sousanis, and Rebecca Sullivan. My most recent book, the co-edited collection The Comics World: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics (University Press of Mississippi 2021), was awarded the Comics Studies Society’s Best Edited Book Prize in 2022.

More broadly, I'm interested in and available to supervise graduate students working in the areas of comics and graphic novels, popular culture industries, media and race/racialization, and audience, reception and fandom studies. (For information on graduate studies at Carleton, visit the Communication and Media Studies website.)