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 scholarly work has appeared in Victorian Periodicals Review, Victorian Review, and Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, as well as the edited collection Medicine, Health, and Being Human. I am also a Co-Director of Periodical Poetry, a digital humanities resource that indexes poetry from nineteenth-century magazines and newspapers, and frequently involve students in my work for that project.

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.