I’m a professor in the Faculty of Media and Creative Arts at Humber College in Toronto, where I teach design and code for digital storytelling.
I write frequent essays for The Literary Review of Canada, and I have a book project on illness and Canadian literature under contract with Routledge.
I like building editorial apps. Here’s one I made to automate book-based divination: Bibliomancr. (Have fun.) Here’s a narrative VR experience I released in 2021: The Thomas Booker Rare Fish Library. Here’s 36TO, a 360˚ journalism site I built for my students’ work in 2017.
Before starting at Humber in 2016, I worked as an editorial web developer and narrative designer at Colour Story and, from 2011 until we put it to sleep in 2018, as the founding editor-in-chief of The Toronto Review of Books.
I’ve found that writing code is thrillingly like writing other things, and I think a lot about books, design, film, architecture, and journalism.
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I’ve also taught at the Ontario College of Art & Design, and the University of Toronto, where I completed my doctorate in English, Book History and Print Culture. I focused on the prehistory of cinema in Victorian literature.
Past lives
My first short film, BERLIN (4 min), opened the Rooftop Film Festival in New York in 2008. Maybe someday I’ll make another one.
More books: you can see some of my bookish work from 2009-11 in two online exhibits, Drawing Palestine from London, and Illustrating Illustration, and also in Readers and Readerships, an online encyclopaedia of reading history that I helped my students to make.
Also, there was WIDEN! Or rather Workshops for Inter-Discipline Exchange & Novelty, a speaking series I founded in 2009.