Department of Language and Literature
Sam Fore Hall 101C
+1 (361) 593-4707
51³Ô¹ÏÍø A&M University-Kingsville
Education
- PhD in English, Minor: Women’s and Gender Studies Graduate Certificate, The University of 51³Ô¹ÏÍø at Arlington, 2017
- MA in Humanities–Studies in Literature, The University of 51³Ô¹ÏÍø at Dallas, 2011
- BA in Literature, Minor: Hispanic/Spanish Area Studies, The University of 51³Ô¹ÏÍø at Dallas, 2009
Publications
(P)rescription Narratives: Feminist Medical Fiction and the Failure of American Censorship. . Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
Reviewed in:
- American Literary History 35.3 (2023): 1455-57. By Sara L. Crosby.
- Transatlantica 2 (2023). By Margaret Jay Jessee.
- Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 42.2 (2023): 391-393. By Cynthia J. Davis.
- Utopian Studies 34.3 (2023): 612-16. By Etta M. Madden.
Introduction and editor of appendix. Helen Brent, M.D. (1892) by Annie Nathan Meyer. Hastings College Press, 2020.
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“Speculative Genealogies: Global Infertility and the Biopolitics of the Fertility Dystopia.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 40.1/2 (2023): 108-133.
“Her Body, Herland: Reproductive Health and Dis/topian Satire in Charlotte Perkins Gilman.” Utopian Studies 29.1 (2018): 1-20.
“Utopia, Inc.: A Manifesto for the Cyborg Corporation.” Science Fiction Studies : 21-42
Public Scholarship
Guest Speaker. Episode 177: Zelda Fitzgerald – Save Me the Waltz with Stephanie Peebles Tavera,, hosted and produced by Amy Helmes and Kim Askew. January 30, 2024. Listen here on . .Guest Speaker and Guest Producer. “Doing Recovery in the 21st Century: A Journey Through the Archives and Beyond,” The, , Mar. 2, 2023. With Mary Chapman, Brigitte Fielder, Lori Harrison-Kahan, and Dana Herman. .
“Anti-Censorship Alcott, Or How the Author of Little Women Taught Girls to Talk Sex,” . Feb. 16, 2022. .
Editorial Work
- Assistant Editor (with Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, General Editor), , Jan. 2023–Present
- Translator. “A Roosevelt” [“To Roosevelt”] (1907) by Ruben Darío. . Jul 30, 2023. .
Courses
- ENGL 5360/CULS 5360: Archival Studies (emphasis: Nineteenth-Century Literature)
- ENGL 4365: Colonial & Nineteenth-Century American Literature
- ENGL 3333: Survey of American Literature
- ENGL 2342: Introduction to Literature (Topics: “Haunted Waterways,” “Black Women Writers”)
- ENGL 1302: Rhetoric & Composition II
- ENGL 1301: Rhetoric & Composition I
Memberships
- C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists (C19)
- College English Association (CEA)
- Modern Language Association (MLA)
- Modernist Studies Association (MSA)
- Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA)
- Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW)
- Society for Utopian Studies (SUS)
- 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Regional Society for the Study of American Women Writers (51³Ô¹ÏÍø SSAWW)
