Assistant Professor
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PhD University of Toronto

My research and practice explores translation as an embodied encounter between different modes of expression and the interconnectedness of text, body, and performance as they relate to the environment and aural/oral experiences (sound poetry, homophonics, non-human languages). I have written two books, L’inhumain poétique (2022), a critical study of ontophonics and ontographics in 20^th century French poetry, and Walter Benjamin (2015), an essayistic exploration of the reverberations of Benjamin’s ideas for 21^st century thought and practice. Collaboratively and individually, I have translated essay and poems from a variety of writers and historial periods, and have been a resident at the Collège international des traducteurs littéraires, in Arles, France. My research-creation projects examine intersections of eco-poetics, translation, and the body. In 2020 I co-founded the Toronto Experimental Translation Collective, which seeks to renegotiate relationships within and across languages and media via collaborative seminars, workshops, and performances. I am co-editor of Brock’s Small Walker Press and I teach French courses on translation, literature, and language. Current projects include a book on ornithography and zoopoetics, and comparative studies of Korean poetry translated into English and French.