Banting Post-Doctoral Fellow Department of English University of Waterloo (July 2011 – October 2013) Supervisor: Dr. Winfried Siemerling Project: Visiting Home: Novels of Diasporic Return in Post-Millennial Canadian Literature
SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies University of Toronto (July 2011 – October 2013) Supervisor: Dr. Ato Quayson Project: Visiting Home: Novels of Diasporic Return in Post-Millennial Canadian Literature
PhD School of English and Theatre Studies, TransCanada Institute University of Guelph (Sept. 2006 – April 2011) Supervisor: Dr. Smaro Kamboureli Dissertation: Narrative Strains: Tracing the Russian Mennonite Migration Narrative Through Canadian Literature
Primary Area Exam: Canadian Literature, Diaspora Theory, Mennonite Literature Secondary Area Exam: 18th Century Theories of Empire in Britain
Masters of Arts Department of English University of Manitoba (2004 – 2006) Supervisor: Dr. David Williams Thesis: Re-wording the Nation: Fiction and the Violent Myth of Canada
Bachelor of Education (with distinction) Department of Education University of Manitoba (1998-2001)
Certificate of Biblical Studies Columbia Bible College (1996-97)