A Usable Past:
Teaching & Research
I taught Composition and Rhetoric courses for 10 years. These included: first-year writing seminars, introduction to rhetoric and composition, honors first-year sections, Business Writing, and Technical Writing.
My courses invited students to question how embodied experience shaped individual and collective identity. I selected readings, fostered discussions and developed writing assignments with the aim of helping my students develop their own awareness of their positionality (and privilege) vis-à-vis gender, race, class, and disability.
My scholarship of teaching was focused on access and equity, supported by an Open Access Materials Grant at the University of Delaware and participation as a Fellow at the 2023 MLA Institute for Reading and Writing Pedagogy at Access Oriented Institutions.
Publications
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Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Reading Through the Viscera: Leonora Carrington’s inhuman feminism.” Modernism/modernity, vol. 31, no. 4, forthcoming November 2025.
“Trans Athletes are Athletes: The Struggle for Inclusion (The G. Graybill Diehm Lecture, September 27, 2023).” Juniata Voices, vol. 24 2024, pp. 58-71.
“‘I’m a girl. But now I’m a boy too:’ Dildonics and prosthetic gender in Ernest Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden.” Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 69, no. 4, 2023, pp. 687-706.
With Sean Weidman. “Modernism and Gender at the Limits of Stylometry.” DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 4, 2021.
“Unwarranted and Invasive Scrutiny: Caster Semenya, Sex-Gender Testing, and the Production of Woman in ‘Women’s’ Track and Field.” Feminist Review, vol. 122, no. 1, 2019, pp. 1-15.
Chapters in Books
“Lighter than My Shadow by Katie Green” in Disability Experiences: Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Other Personal Narratives, edited by Thomas G. Couser and Susannah B. Mintz, Macmillan Reference USA, 2019, pp. 389-391.
“Take 12, A Critical Performance,” with Judith Roof, Melissa Bailar, and Philomena Bradford. In Reading and Writing Experimental Texts: Critical Innovations, edited by Robin Silbergleid and Kristina Quynn, Palgrave, 2017, pp. 277-291.
Blogs
“Policing Gender and Regulating Testosterone in Women’s Track and Field: When All Womxn Lose.” The Feminist Review blog. 24 June 2019.