Book Chapters
 

“Alcott and the Work of Nursing”
In Critical Insights: Louisa May Alcott (2015)

Recent Presentations


“‘Knowing It Is Here’: Toward a Gothic Epistemology of the Present”
Health Humanities Consortium International Conference, Mar. 2021

“Meaning and Politics of Symptoms in the Nineteenth-Century and Today”
American Association for the History of Medicine webinar, “Pandemic: Creating a Usable Past,” May 2020

“Becoming Visible: Cis Women, Trans Men, and the Social Life of Scars”
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Irvine, CA, Nov. 2019 

“‘The Body Hygienic’: Environmental Racism and Environmental Health in Nineteenth-Century African American Narratives”
Health Humanities Consortium. Chicago, IL, Mar. 2019

“The President’s Other Daughter: Racialized Immunity and Biopolitical Abolitionism in Clotel”
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. Albuquerque, NM, Mar. 2018

“‘Mixed Bloods and Half-Told Stories’: Fictions of Transmission in the 19th-Century American Novel”
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Tucson, AZ, Nov. 2017

“Race, Health, and Environmental Violence from the Plantation South to Flint, MI”
American Society for Literature and the Environment. Detroit, MI, Jun. 2017

“Prosthetic Politics: Reading and Teaching Audre Lorde’s Cancer Journals Now”
Health Humanities Consortium. Houston, TX, Mar. 2017

Selected Honors & Awards

  • Michael Starr Award, Hiram College, 2020

  • Paul E. Martin Award, Hiram College, 2018

  • ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Michigan, 2016

  • Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Fellowship, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, 2015

  • Dorothy McGuigan Prize for Best Graduate Student Essay, University of Michigan Department of Women's Studies, 2014

  • Hopwood Award in Graduate Non-Fiction, University of Michigan, 2013

  • Lora Hutchins Heberle Award for Excellence in Critical Writing, University of Michigan Department of English, 2011