About

University Director of Honors & Associate Professor of Literature

I teach classes in narrative medicine, British literature, women’s writing, digital humanities and children’s and young adult literature in addition to directing University Honors across FDU’s two campuses in New Jersey.

My book Women’s Health in Britain and America: Texts and Contexts considers texts by and for women about pregnancy and childbirth, contraception and abortion, and breast and gynecological cancers. My writing has also appeared in Victorian Periodicals Review, Victorian Review, and Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, as well as the edited collection Medicine, Health, and Being Human. Since 2010, I have been a Co-Director of Periodical Poetry, a digital humanities resource that indexes poetry from nineteenth-century magazines and newspapers, and I frequently involve undergraduate students in my work for that project.

My current research analyzes the development of discourse arounds women’s wellness by considering how gendered social expectations, ecofeminist approaches to health, print culture were influenced by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scientific and technological advances. Through an in-depth exploration of global anglophone periodicals for women, I highlight the ways print media addresses women about their health, comparing those messages with scientific knowledge from medical textbooks and journals of the same period.

Before coming to FDU in 2014, I taught high school and college in Texas, oversaw the literacy initiatives for an educational nonprofit in NYC, and worked in corporate marketing and innovation.

For more about me, see this profile from FDU Magazine‘s fall 2019 issue.