About

I am a medical humanist and historian as well as a literary scholar of the long eighteenth-century. I have worked as a tenure-track assistant professor, but am presently pursuing an Altac career. I received my PhD in English from Case Western Reserve University in 2010, and my research (from the dissertation to my present projects) investigates the boundaries between literature and medicine from a historical/materialist perspective. Recent works consider women’s education, neurological dysfunction and medical artifacts like the “birthing machine.” Similarly, my monograph, A Subject Dark and Intricate, explores the proliferation of neurological and reproductive sciences at the naissance of Gothic literature in the late 1700s (the “other” fin de siècle). I also serve as managing editor for Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, an international journal of cross-cultural health research. In the past five years, the journal has expanded to include illness narratives, cultural case studies and more—resulting in our present #1 ranking. In 2013, I will be guest editing the journal’s first medical humanities special section, Trauma, Disability and Embodied Discourse through Cross-cultural Narrative Modes.