He specializes in Canadian literature in both its national and inter-American contexts, and is particularly interested in literary representations of the encounters between Natives and Newcomers in Canada and the rest of the Americas. He is the author of The False Traitor: Louis Riel in Canadian Culture (University of Toronto Press, 2003).With Marie Carriére, he is co-editor of “Comparative Canadian Literature in the Twenty-First Century/ La littérature canadienne au XXIéme siécle,” a special issue of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 36, no. 2 (2009).