Faculty Profiles
Education
BA, Skidmore College
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research Interests
- American literature and culture
- Atlantic World literature to 1900
- African American literature
- Environmental humanities
- Medical humanities
Courses Recently Taught
- ENLT 151: Animals, Monsters, Ghosts
- ENLT 216: Literature of Social Justice
- ENLT 351: 19th-Century American Literature: American Natures
Creative and Scholarly Work
- “The Adelaide Brent Letters: Queer Care in Medical Correspondence,” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. Special Issue on Women’s Writing and the Genealogy of Queer Thought. Forthcoming 2020.
- “First-Person Salamanders: Benjamin Rush, Impersonality, and Nonhuman Beings,” Early American Literature 54.3, Fall 2019.
- “Plant Monsters Turn Normal Upside Down,” Edge Effects, October 31, 2019.
- “The Environmental Histories of Desire,” Edge Effects, April 16, 2019.
- “Creationists, Mastodons, and Natural History in Kentucky," Edge Effects, March 7, 2017.
Professional Memberships
- Modern Language Association
- C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
- The Society of Early Americanists
- American Studies Association
- Society for the Study of American Women Writers