Kim Larsen

I hold an MA in English literature from McGill University and am currently working on my Ph.D. through the University of Alberta. For the past 5 years, I have been a contract instructor at both SFU and Kwantlen; prior to that, I worked as a research assistant for Christine Wiesenthal's The Half-Lives of Pat Lowther, which was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction in 2006. I have taught a wide range of first-year and upper-level undergraduate courses, including composition, contemporary Canadian women's fiction, Romantic and Victorian literature, Pre-Raphaelite poetry, North American coming-of-age fiction, and 19th-century American Gothic literature. My current research interests include Victorian literature and visual art, especially the work of the Pre-Raphaelites; women's literature; the Gothic; and theories of haunting.