Instructor

My current work, entitled "Harmsworth's Girls: The New Girl in the British Popular Press, 1898-1916," argues that girls' magazines are agents of socialization, inculcating dominant social values in girls surrounding the nation, love and desire, identity, work, class, and their bodies, while at the same time reflecting inherent tensions and contradictions in such ideals. My work examines girls' magazines published by Alfred Harmsworth and the Amalgamated Press at the turn of the century in Britain and the colonies, including the Girls’ Best Friend, the Girls’ Friend, the Girl’s Home, the Girls’ Reader, and Our Girls.

"Constructing the Gendered Body: Girls, Health, Beauty, Advice, and the Girls' Best Friend, 1898-99." Women's History Review. V. 15, 2 (April 2006): 253-275.

"Beauty, Work, But Above All Marriage: Gender Socialization of Girls in the Girls' Best Friend, 1898-99." MA Thesis, Simon Fraser University, 2003.

Warren B. Susmann Graduate Conference in History, Rutgers University, spring 2004: "Constructing the Gendered Body: Girls, Health, Beauty, Advice, and the Girls' Best Friend, 1898-99."

Qualicum Graduate History Conference, January 2003: "Girls' Work, and the Girls' Best Friend."

Qualicum History Conference, February 2002: "The Public/Private Dichotomy in the Autobiographies and Diaries of Virgina Woolf."

Student Union Speakers' Series, UCFV, fall 2006: "Landing a Husband Victorian Style: Tips for Girls."

SFU History Department Colloquium Series, March 2003: "Love, Desire, and the Girls' Best Friend."