Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor
English
My primary research fields are British Romanticism (with a particular emphasis on poetry), literature and medicine, and Narrative Medicine. My first book, The Poetics of Palliation: Romantic Literary Therapy, 1790鈥�1850 (Liverpool University Press, 2019), examines how Romantic literary writing engaged with British medical ethics and beliefs about pain in the 18th and 19th century and how these beliefs shape contemporary work in the health humanities.
I also write speculative fiction. My first novel, , came out in fall 2023. I鈥檓 currently working on a second novel and several essays.
Before coming to Marquette, I received my Ph.D from the University of Toronto and taught in the Foundation Year Programme at the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Courses Taught
- 18th- and 19th-century British literature
- Literature and medicine
- Creative writing
- Poetry and poetics
Research Interests
- 18th- and 19th-century British literature and culture
- Literature and medicine
- Medical humanities
- Poetry and poetics
Publications
- Dry Land, UW Press, 2023
- Published short fiction in Strange Horizons, Slate Future Tense Fiction, Lightspeed, The Offing, and elsewhere
- 鈥淗ealth Humanities and British Romanticism.鈥� Literature Compass 18.8 (2021).
- The Poetics of Palliation: Romantic Literary Therapy, 1790-1850. Liverpool University Press, 2019.
- "Beyond the Poet-Physician: Letitia Landon's Reader-Centered Therapy."The Future of Feminist Eighteenth-Century Scholarship: Beyond Recovery, ed. Robin Runia. Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature. New York: Routledge, 2017. 71-88.
- "鈥業n Sickness Not Ignoble鈥�: Soul-making and the Rejection of Relief in the Hyperion Poems.鈥� Studies in Romanticism 54.3 (2015), 401-428.
- 鈥溾�楽oothing Thoughts鈥�: Romantic Palliative Care and the Poetics of Relief.鈥� European Romantic Review 23.3 (2012).
- Short stories in several magazines of speculative fiction.
Honors and Awards
- 2018-19 糖心传媒 Summer Faculty Fellowship
- 2018-19 糖心传媒 Regular Research Grant
- 2011-12 University of Toronto Fellowship
- 2007-11 University of Toronto Connaught Scholarship
Additional Information
Office Hours
Fall 2024
Teaching Schedule
Fall 2024
- 4954/101 TuTh 2:00-3:15 Lalumiere Hall 184
- Seminar in Creative Writing
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