Developing a GenAI Agent (“22 Essay Errors”) to identify and explain writing deficiencies and suggest practical remedies. The agent also identifies essay strengths. Starting soon: experimentation in this AI's ability to autonomously evaluate argumentative, thesis-based essays in the humanities. Thanks to the generous support from The University of Sydney’s Cogniti Project, 2026.

Early adopter of AI, integrating prompt engineering into the assignment design in AP/WRIT 3740, "The Fundamentals of Editing." See my pedagogical contribution to McMaster University's "Generative AI and Assessment" study https://www.genaiteach.ca/, 2025.

Digitizing Shakespeare in XML and Editing Shakespeare and the English Renaissance (Early Moderns), electronic texts (XML markup and editing), digital humanities, the history and scholarship of editing Shakespeare electronically and in print: see my Shakespeare XML Project, the history and development of English prose through style and quantitative stylistics. This research fed my 4th-year honours seminar, "Editing Shakespeare."

Dracula, Vampire fiction and film; horror fiction and film (vampires, witchcraft, ghost stories, and lycanthropy), especially Bram Stoker's Dracula, Victorian Ghost Stories, and The Gothic Tradition.

York University Land Acknowledgement

First Nations peoples have lived on this part of Turtle Island for millennia, stewarding the land, the water and all that contributes to life in this region. Today, the culture and presence of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples enrich the lands and people of this territory.

More than two centuries ago, the Mississauga people welcomed settlers to this territory, providing sustenance and engaging in trade and commerce. Between 1781 and 1820, eight treaties were signed between the Crown and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, who opened their territory to settlement. Today, York University’s Keele Campus is located on Toronto Purchase Treaty, No. 13 lands and is situated on the traditional territory of the Huron-Wendat and Haudenosaunee.

Treaty history is foundational, and it is our collective responsibility to honour the land, as we honour and respect those who have gone before us, those who are here and those who have yet to come. We are grateful for the opportunity to be learning, working and thriving on this land, and we commit to learn the truth and be active in the process of reconciliation.