journal articles
“What to Expect When You’re Expecting an Epidemic: Ling Ma’s Severance and Karen Walker Thomson’s The Dreamers”
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 64.1 (2021)
“Breathing Free: Environmental Violence and the Plantation Ecology in Hannah Crafts’s The Bondwoman’s Narrative”
Victorian Literature and Culture 48.1 (2020)
“Invisible Agents: The American Gothic and the Miasmatic Imagination”
Gothic Studies 17.1 (2015)
“Avatars, Illness, and Authority: Embodied Experience in Breast Cancer Autopathographics”
Configurations 22.2 (2014)
“Emplotted Bodies: Breast Cancer, Feminism, and the Future”
Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 33.1 (2013)
book chapters
“Whitman’s Atmospheres.” The Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman, edited by Kenneth M. Price and Stefan Schöberlein, Oxford University Press, 2024.
“Alcott and the Work of Nursing.” Critical Insights: Louisa May Alcott, edited by Anne Phillips and Gregory Eiselein, Salem Press, 2015.
recent presentations
“Radical Remedy: Mastectomy, Narrative, and Temporality in the Nineteenth-Century United States.” Critical Health Conference, Sorbonne University. Paris, France, Oct. 2025.
“Little Invisible: On Imaging and Imagining Expectancy.” Health Humanities Consortium. Philadelphia, PA, Apr. 2025.
“Death and the Liberal Arts College.” Modern Language Association. New Orleans, LA, Jan. 2025.
“Touch of Grey’s: Positioning Grey’s Anatomy in Health Humanities Pedagogy” (with Adam Ellis). Health Humanities Consortium. Phoenix, AZ, Apr. 2024.
“Passing On: Transmission, Temporality, and the Pregnant Patient Zero.” Modern Language Association. Philadelphia, PA, Jan. 2024.
“Structures of Fearing: Or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Disease.” Health Humanities Consortium. Cleveland, OH, Mar. 2023.
“Invisible Property: Atmosphere and the Politics of Care in Nineteenth Century America.” Modern Language Association (virtual), Jan. 2023.
“Creative Nonfiction: or, a Parallel Universe.” Workshop, John P. Murphy Symposium in Medical Humanities, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Cleveland, OH, Mar. 2025.
“Most Likely to Survive.” Keynote address, M2 Clinical Trunk Intensive, University of Michigan Medical School. Ann Arbor, MI, Apr. 2023.
“‘Knowing It Is Here’: Toward a Gothic Epistemology of the Present.” Health Humanities Consortium International Conference (virtual), Mar. 2021.
“Meaning and Politics of Symptoms in the Nineteenth-Century and Today.” American Association for the History of Medicine, “Pandemic: Creating a Usable Past” webinar, May 2020.