Publications

Book

Vigorous Reforms: Women Writers and the Politics of Health in the Nineteenth-Century United States (forthcoming from UNC Press)

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

“‘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 (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 of Certain Concealments: Poe, Hawthorne, and Early Nineteenth-Century Abortion by Dana Medoro.”Nineteenth-Century Literature 78.2 (2023): 172-75.

“Review of Clare Barker and Stuart Murray, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability. Disability Studies Quarterly 38.4 (2018).

Public Scholarship

“Illustrating End-of-Life Care.” BMJ Medical Humanities Blog, March 27, 2024.

“Communicable Experience: Oral History and Infectious Disease at Ellis Island.” Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal, January 24, 2024.

“Margaret Fuller, Anna Julia Cooper, and the Politics of Citation.” Conversations: A Publication of the Margaret Fuller Society, 5.1 (Summer 2023).

“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).

“The Origins of American Women’s Exercise.” The New Inquiry, February 14, 2019.

Other Writing

Past Due: A Story of Disability, Pregnancy, and Birth, Anne Finger.” In Disability Experiences: Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Other Personal Narratives edited by G. Thomas Couser and Susannah B. Mintz, vol. 2, Macmillan Reference USA, 2019, pp. 611-614.