Research Interests
Post-1900 American Literature; Critical Theory; Medical Humanities
Employee degree:
BA, Michigan State University
MA, University of Iowa
PHD, University of Iowa
Biography
Recent Scholarship:
We, Us, and Them: Affect and Nonfiction from Vietnam to Trump (University of Virginia Press, 2024)
Weak Nationalisms: Affect and Nonfiction in Postwar America (University of Nebraska Press, 2019)
"Anxiety Can Bring Us Together." Pedagogy 19.3 (September 2019): 543-550.
"The Politics of Resentment in J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 61.2 (Summer 2019): 116-140.
Classes Taught:
ENGL 3271: Literature and Medicine
ENGL 2301: Literature and Mental Illness
MEDH 2011: Perspectives in Medical Humanities
HONR 2041: Honors Great Works (Banned Books)
HONR 1221: Honors Writing Seminar