Feb. 8, 1957, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

EDUCATION
1977 – 1980 University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B. B.A. (Honours), English
1980 – 1982 York University, North York, Ontario, M.A. (English)
1982 – 1991 York University, North York, Ontario, Ph.D. (English/Gender Studies) THESIS: “ In the Stud Book and Everything:” Femme Fatality and the Word in Twentieth-Century Anglo/American Fiction.
ABSTRACT: In a range of texts by Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lawrence Durrell, Djuna Barnes and Angela Carter, this dissertation examines woman’s encodement in the male symbolic order as an agent of ungrammaticality and disruption. It posits an experimental definition of the femme fatale designed to explicate how this image of woman has evolved, during the twentieth-century, from passivity to activity: from a symbolic configuration within texts and visual images envisioned by men to a revisionist configurator of symbols in the textual politics of the writing woman.

MUSIC STUDIES:
1963 – 1970 Preliminary violin studies with Jessie Ward Barker, (A.S.O.) and Professor Clayton Hare (University of Victoria)
1970 – 1974 Private study with Jos. Palk and James Pataki, (Brunswick String Quartet)
1975 – 1977 Performance Program with combined honours (English), Dalhousie University. Summer studies: Aspen, Colorado. Member: ‘Murphy’s Law:’ Experimental Music Collective
1986 – 1990 Specialized private study (baroque violin) with Jeanne Lamon (Tafelmusik). Workshops and Masterclasses in baroque violin with Stanley Ritchie (Oberlin College) and Jaap Schroder (Yale).
1994 – 1997 Founded the Aradia Baroque Ensemble, Toronto. Performances and recordings with Aradia plus Music Videos and collaborations with local and International Arts Organizations

VISUAL ARTS:
1998 – 2000 Foundation Studies: OCAD
2001 – 2007 Printmaking studies and workshops with Michael Earle, Linda Blix, Brian Hoxha and Jill Graham, Open Studio, Toronto.

ADDITIONAL AND RELATED EXPERIENCE:
1993 – 1998 Classical and New Music Reviewer: The Toronto Star, Toronto Globe & Mail.
1992 – 1993 Administrator, Toronto Early Music Centre
1982 – 1983 Course Director, Canadian Art and Poetry, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, West Germany
1979 – 1982 Dept. of Creative Writing, York University

PUBLICATIONS: The Dalhousie Review (fiction), The Antigonish Review (poetry), The Gutenberg Press, The Toronto Star, The Toronto Globe & Mail.

ASSOCIATIONS: The Art Gallery of Ontario, The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Open Studio, Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto Early Music Centre, Early Music America, The Royal Ontario Museum, Greenpeace, Canadian Foster Parents, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).