Taylor Morphett completed her PhD at Simon Fraser University. Her research focuses on the histories and pedagogies of writing in relation to the teaching of literature, focusing especially on the formation of the English department in colonial English-speaking Canada. Her work considers how the category of literature was produced in the context of English vernacular writing and how this categorization influenced university writing pedagogies. Her research and methods span literary, composition, and educational studies, taking a historical and critical approach to the underlying assumptions about how we conceptualize and teach writing at the post-secondary level. She is currently a co-editor of Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie and is a member of the CASDW (Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing) executive. When she’s not teaching or researching, she is hiking with her family and her dog Sammy.