Book
Vigorous Reforms: Women Writers and the Politics of Health in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming in fall 2025.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
“Bringing Traditional Medicine into the Health Humanities Classroom with Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s ‘Remedies.’” With Lindsey Grubbs. Journal of Medical Humanities (forthcoming).
“(Re)active Bodies: Autoimmunity and Self-Care in Women’s Chronic Illness Literature.” Literature and Medicine (forthcoming).
“‘A Face of Anguish’: Pain and Portraiture in the Civil War Hospital.” American Literature, Special issue on “Pain” 96.2 (2024): 187-212.
“Fugitive Care: Harriet Jacobs and the Politics of Domestic Science.” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth- Century Americanists 10.2 (2022): 329-354.
“Margaret Fuller’s Physical Education.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 39.1 (2022): 1-21.
“‘We uncertain step’: Emily Dickinson, Disability, and Embodied Learning.” ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture 68.3 (2022): 305–31.
“Writing Towards Access: Collaboration and Community.” College Composition and Communication 73.4 (2022): 722-738.
“Prosthesis Repurposed: Gender and Rehabilitation in Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction.” Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 11.4 (2017): 385-401.
Review Essays
“The Poetics of Crohn’s Disease.” The Lancet 403.10439 (2024):1843.Review of April Gibson’s The Span of A Small Forever.
“Review: Certain Concealments: Poe, Hawthorne, and Early Nineteenth-Century Abortion, by Dana Medoro.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 78.2 (2023): 172-175.
“Review of The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability.” Disability Studies Quarterly 38.4 (2018).
Online Writing
“Stomaching Wellness.” Public Books, September 25, 2024. https://www.publicbooks.org/stomaching-wellness/
“Mirror Images: Disabled Writers on Frida Kahlo.” Los Angeles Review of Books, July 16, 2024. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/mirror-images-disabled-writers-on-frida-kahlo
“Public Scholarship as Pedagogy.” #TeachingC19, June 18, 2024. https://www.c19society.org/teachingc19about
“Illustrating End-of-Life Care.” BMJ Medical Humanities Blog, March 27, 2024. https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2024/03/27/illustrating-end-of-life-care/
“Communicable Experience: Oral History and Infectious Disease at Ellis Island.” Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal, January 24, 2024. https://medicalhealthhumanities.com/2024/01/24/communicable-experience-oral-history-and-infectious-disease-at-ellis-island/
“Song of My Self-Help: Whitman’s Rehabilitative Reading.” Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life, Special issue on “Revisiting the Whitmanian Body at 200: Memory, Medicine, Mobility” 19.1 (Spring 2019). https://commonplace.online/article/song-self-help-whitmans-rehabilitative-reading/
“The Origins of American Women’s Exercise.” The New Inquiry, February 14, 2019. https://thenewinquiry.com/blog/the-origins-of-american-womens-exercise/
Exhibit
Forgotten Voices: Illuminating Nineteenth-Century Mental Health Care. Co-curated with spring 2024 “Health and the Humanities” seminar students. Rebecca and Rick White Gallery, Lutnick Library, Haverford College, fall 2024.