Education
Ph.D., English, Emory University (2021)
B.A., English, Haverford College (2016)
Research
My research and teaching interests include U.S. literature and culture from the nineteenth century to the present, health humanities, disability studies, and gender studies. My scholarship has appeared in venues including American Literature, J19, ESQ, Legacy, College Composition and Communication, and the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies.
My book, Vigorous Reforms: Women Writers and the Politics of Health in the Nineteenth-Century United States (forthcoming from UNC Press), traces how women writers leveraged their expertise in the domestic health science of physical education to intervene in debates about sex, race, and citizenship. Research for this project has been supported by grants from the Consortium for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine; the American Antiquarian Society; the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Courses
Health and the Humanities, Spring 2024
The Politics of Self-Care, Spring 2023
Feminism Before Suffrage, Fall 2022, Fall 2023