He is Principal Investigator on the SSHRC Insight Grant project, “SpokenWeb: Developing a Comprehensive Web-Based Digital Spoken Word Archive for Literary Research.” His publications include Style and the Nineteenth-Century Critic (2008), about theories of rhetoric in the context of 19th century periodicals, and a co-edited collection of essays called Language Acts (2007), about English-language poetry in Québec. He is also the author of three books of poetry.