About
I am a Rare Books and Manuscripts Curator at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I completed my MLS from the University of Maryland in 2005 and my PhD in English at Texas A&M University in 2019. My work uses empirical and enumerative bibliography to recover the labors of women in the book trades in the seventeenth century, and uses book history to recontextualize theories of genre writing in fanfiction and publishing. Education
2011-2019. PhD English, Texas A&M University.
Dissertation title: “Liminal Ladies: Reconstructing the Place of Women in Seventeenth-Century English Book Production.”
2009. C.A., Certified Archivist, Society of Certified Archivists. Renewed 2015.
2005. Masters of Library Science at the University of Maryland, College Park.
2003. B.A. English at the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 2003. Publications
“Gendered Spheres: Theorizing Space in the English Printing House.” The Seventeenth Century. Accepted. (6000 words) Pre-print:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0268117X.2017.1340850
“The Fannish Reader (and Her Discontents).” The Journal of Fandom Studies. Accepted. (6000 words)
“The Margins of Print? Fan Fiction as Book History.” Transformative Works and Cultures. September 2017. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2017.1053
Upcoming Talks and Conferences
“Defining Fan Fiction: A Historiographical Approach.” Fan Studies Network North America. Chicago, IL. October 2018.
“Pressed and Stitched: Empirical Bibliography and the Gendering of Books and Book History.” Women in Book History 1660-1836 symposium. Vancouver, BC. August 17, 2018.
“Gendering Pedagogy? Empirical Bibliography, Book History, and the Problem of Manuscript Production.” Seminar on Women and Book History, chaired by Valerie Wayne. Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting. Los Angeles, April 2018. Memberships
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
American Print History Association.
Popular Culture Association.
Science Fiction Research Association.
