Publications and Conference Papers

Selected Published Works

“Bibliotherapy Redivivus: Applied Literature as Narrative Care.” In preparation.                                                    

With William L. Randall. Reading Our Lives: The Poetics of Growing Old. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

With William L. Randall. “From Psychology to Poetics: Aging as a Literary Process.” Journal of Aging, Humanities, and the Arts 1.3 (2007): 147-58.

“Making Poetry of Pain: The Headache Poems of Jane Cave Winscom.” Literature and Medicine24.1 (Spring 2005): 93-108.

With William L. Randall. “Toward a Poetics of Aging: The Links between Literature and Life.” Narrative Inquiry 14.2 (2004): 235-60.
            

“‘Driving to the Interior’: Shifting Boundaries in the Early Landscape Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop.”  Wascana Review 34.1 (1999): 9-25.
                                            

“‘Not, Properly Speaking, Irregular’: The Metre of ‘Christabel.’”  Wordsworth Circle 24  (1993): 74-78.
                         

“‘An Epicure in Sound’: Coleridge on the Scansion of Verse.”  English Studies in Canada  18  (1992): 287-300.

Selected Conference Papers

“Bibliotherapy Redivivus: Applied Literature as Narrative Care.” Narrative Matters 2012, American University, Paris, France, 30 May 2012.

“Implicated Storytellers: Focalization in Literature and Life.” Narrative Matters 2010, Fredericton, NB, 22 May 2010.

With William L. Randall. “Reading Our Lives in Later Life: The Role of Metaphorical Learning in Narrative Development. Narrative Matters 2006, Wolfville, NS, May 2006.

With William L. Randall. “Telling Your Story in Later Life: A View from Literary Theory.” Canadian Association on Gerontology, Halifax, NS, October 2005.   
                                               

With William L. Randall. “From Psychology to Poetics: Aging as a Literary Process.”  Canadian Association on Gerontology.  Victoria, BC, October 2004.

“Corporeal Chickens and Narrative Eggs: Reflections on the Embodiment of Story.”  Narrative Matters 2004, Fredericton, NB, May 2004.

“Narrative Negotiations of Headache.”  Social Sciences in Health Colloquium, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, 3 October 2003.                                                                                                                     

With William L. Randall.  “Aging Poetically: Reflections on the Process of Becoming.”  Association for Bibliotherapy and Applied Literature, Kingston, ON, 14 June 2003.

With William L. Randall. “Toward a Poetics of Aging: The Links between Literature and Life.”  Gerontological Society of America Scientific Convention, Boston, MA, 25 November 2002.

“Acknowledging the Physical: Chronic Pain and the Postmodern Dilemma.”  Narrative Matters 2002, Fredericton, NB, 18 May 2002.