University Writing Program

Education

• PhD, English, Temple University, 2022
• MA, English, University of Colorado Denver, 2015
• BA, English, Hood College, 2012

Courses Taught

• ENC 2305: Analytical Writing and Thinking (Crime and Punishment, Medicine and Storytelling)
• ENC 3254: Writing in the Disciplines (Writing in Public Health, Nature Writing, Writing in Environmental Science, Professional and Public Writing)
• ENC 3459: Writing in the Medical Sciences
• ENC 1101: Expository and Argumentative Writing
• ENC 1102: Argument and Persuasion

Pedagogical Interests

Writing in the disciplines, first-year writing, health and science writing, writing and AI, public-facing writing, writing and tutoring pedagogy, nature writing

Research Interests

Writing pedagogy, first-year writing, writing and AI, Victorian literature, health humanities, history of science and psychology, sensation fiction, novel and narrative theory

Personal Interests

Spending time with family; hiking, backpacking, and being outdoors; lacrosse; reading obscure Victorian novels; trying new restaurants; listening to live music; writing a mystery novel 

Best Writing Advice

Writing is a process, and everyone has a process for writing. Be mindful of the situations, times of day, locations, methods, and mindsets that bring out the best writer in you.

Publications

• “Sensational Science and Thin Description: The Complicated Ethics of Story in Popular Science Writing.” Teaching Science Writing in the Humanities Classroom. Edited by Allison Dushane, Lisa Ottum, and Rosalind Powell. Modern Language Association, Spring 2026.
• “Grant Allen’s Final Chapter of Philistia, edited with Introduction and Notes.” Victorian Popular Fictions, vol. 5, no. 1, 2023, pp. 171-181.
• “Reading Novel Experience, Sensational Fictions, and the Impressionable Reader in M. E. Braddon’s Joshua Haggard’s Daughter.” Studies in the Novel, vol. 54, no. 4, 2022, pp. 355-369.
• “The Case for the Country Doctor.” Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal. Affiliate of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. January, 2021.
• “‘Émile Zola and the Naturalistic School, or Realism in French Literature’ by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, edited with an Introduction and Notes.” Victorian Popular Fictions, vol. 2, no. 2, 2020, pp. 95-123.
• “Is The Alienist a Critique of Capitalism or a Pro-Neoliberal Narrative?” Popmatters. April, 2020.
• “Between Metaphysics and Physiology: Lewes’s Facultative Action and Eliot’s Realism of Failure.” George Eliot—George Henry Lewes Studies, vol. 71, no. 2, 2019, pp. 125-142.
• “Character and Life: Sociological Method in George Eliot’s Fiction.” The Socio-Literary Imaginary in 19th and 20thCentury Britain: Victorian and Edwardian Inflections. Eds. Maria K. Bachman and Albert D. Pionke. Routledge, 2019, pp. 136-153.
• “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Amplifies What Happens to Us When We Experience Narrative Without Form.” Popmatters. March, 2019.
• “Subjective Realism and Diligent Imagination: G. H. Lewes’s Psychological Theory and George Eliot’s Impressions of Theophrastus Such.” Victorian Review, vol. 44, no. 1, 2018, pp. 197-214.
• “On G. H. Lewes’s Problems of Life and Mind, 1874-79.” BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History. Ed. Dino Felluga. Extension of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net.