Candice is an American-British independent scholar in the fields of literature and science, history, ecocriticism, and human-animal studies. She received her PhD in 2016 and expanded upon that research for her book Literature, Science, and Animal Advocacy in Canada. She studied at the University of Exeter in England and Carleton University in Canada. She has taught British, Irish, and North American literature and history. Her specialist expertise is the history of animals in Canadian literature, including the wild animal story and Nature Fakers controversy.