Research
My research sits at the intersections of sound, noise, technology, sleep and the environment. I have a Master's in Media Studies from Concordia University and began a PhD in Communication and Culture at York University in 2025.
Positions
2021 to 2023Research Assistant, researcher and artist-in-residence, Sociability of SleepMcGill University and Université de Montréal
2022 to 2023Research Assistant, 1000 Days and Counting: industrial noise from the Donkin Coal Mine (report)Cape Breton University, supervised by Sarah Barnes
Research Assistant, Landscape of HopeConcordia University, supervised by Dr. Owen Chapman
Research Assistant, bio-ethicsUniversité de Montréal, supervised by Béatrice Godard and Thierry Hurlimann
Teaching
2025 to 2026WRIT 1700, academic and professional writing. Teaching AssistantYork University
2020 to 2022COMS 376, sound production. Teaching Assistant; built the lab syllabus and ran weekly workshopsConcordia University
2021 to 2022COMS 476, third-year sound production. Teaching AssistantConcordia University
Talks and workshops
“Hot Takes: Sleep Equity and Climate Change”, invited presenterSociability of Sleep Project, McGill and UdeM
“Sleep and Digital Health: Multidisciplinary Perspectives”, presenterNorthumbria University
“spectacular rest: how to sleep in the attention economy”, presenterMedia Studies Research Symposium, Concordia University; Sociability of Sleep Grad Colloquium, Université de Montréal (invited)
Sleep Salon #7, moderatorSociability of Sleep conference series, McGill and UdeM
Nocturnal Milieus: a sound design and sleep workshop, workshopMoving Image Research Lab, McGill University (online)
“Ambient Media and Parallel Play”, presenterDigital (Im)materialities Conference, Concordia University
thá:ytset: shxwelí li te shxwelítemelh xíts’etáwtxw / Reparative Aesthetics: The Museum’s Incarceration of Indigenous Life (lecture by Dylan Robinson), co-organizer and moderatorConcordia University
Music production workshop, Studio 393, workshopStudio 393 youth drop-in centre, Winnipeg
Publications
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Cape Breton University, 20 April 2023Report
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In Media Res (MediaCommons), 10 October 2022Author
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In Media Res (MediaCommons), 10 to 16 October 2022Curator
Grants
Eleven arts grants at the federal, provincial and municipal levels, by my count, for my own and others' projects.