Education
Ph.D., English, Emory University (2021)
B.A., English, Haverford College (2016)
Research
My research focuses on health and social justice in U.S. literature and culture from the nineteenth century to the present. In my first book, Vigorous Reforms: Women Writers and the Politics of Health in the Nineteenth-Century United States (forthcoming from UNC Press in fall 2025), I trace how women writers leveraged their expertise in domestic health science to intervene in debates about sex, race, and citizenship. I am currently at work on a new project on the intersections of health inequities and visual culture in nineteenth-century U.S. literature. My scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the journals American Literature, Literature and Medicine, J19, ESQ, Legacy, College Composition and Communication, and the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies as well as venues including the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books and The Lancet.
Courses
Health and the Humanities, Spring 2024 & Spring 2025
The Politics of Self-Care, Spring 2023
Feminism Before Suffrage, Fall 2022 & Fall 2023