I’m Professor of Rhetoric in the Department of English at Toronto Metropolitan University. My research and teaching focus on rhetoric and writing studies, particularly rhetoric of science, health, and medicine, as well as the health humanities and science and technology studies. I am especially interested in understanding “in-between” spaces in health and health discourse, such as spaces between medical research and practice, mainstream and non-dominant models of health care, doctors and patients, and expert and public understandings of evidence.
I am the author of Why Wellness Sells: Natural Health in a Pharmaceutical Culture (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022) and Bounding Biomedicine: Evidence and Rhetoric in the New Science of Alternative Medicine (University of Chicago Press, 2016). With historian Sharrona Pearl, I am coeditor of the new Johns Hopkins University Press series in Health Humanities. I am also Co-Chair of the RHM Symposium and Chair of the RHM Society Formation Committee.
I live in Toronto with my family and an orange cat who hates me. I also really like hanging out in the mountains.