I write and teach at the intersection of transatlantic modernism, psychoanalysis, modern spiritualism, the medical humanities, and gender and sexuality. Before coming to Ithaca College in 2013, I taught at New York University, where I completed my Ph.D., and at Harvard University, as a Lecturer in History and Literature. My book, Secret Sharers: The Intimate Rivalries of Modernism and Psychoanalysis (Fordham UP, 2023), traces a genealogy of secret sharing between literary modernism and psychoanalysis, focusing on the productive entanglements and intense competitive rivalries that helped shape Anglo-American modernism as a field. I recently co-edited with Shirley Wong a special issue of Modern Language Quarterly on the literary "detail." One of our goals was to expand the horizons of the detail, which has been historically linked to nineteenth-century literature and realism. The articles in our special issue investigate the mechanisms of literary detail in colonial ethnography, contemporary Asian American fiction, British modernist novels, and postcolonial memoir.
I teach seminars on modern and contemporary literature as well as courses on banned books, queer literature, and 20th- and 21st-century writing by women. I have served on the board of Women's and Gender Studies at Ithaca College for eight years. Alongside Professor Chris Holmes, I co-organized The Global Modernism Symposium at Ithaca College in 2014, and the Global Modernism speaker series in 2017.
Publications:
“Unveiling the Dance of the Seven Veils: Oscar Wilde and the Power of Myth-Making,” Special Issue on Oscar Wilde’s Salome, The Oscholars, (Fall 2012).
Public Writing:
"No Way to Say Goodbye," The New York Times (April 26, 2022).
"Purebloods: The Antisemitism and White Supremacy of the Anti-Vax Movement." The Edge (August 2022).
Courses Taught:
Making It New: British and U.S. Modernism
Queer Lit
Banned Books
Approaches to Literary Study
20th and 21st-Century British Novel
Engendering Modernity: Twentieth-Century Women Writers
Education
Ph.D. New York University (2012)
M.A. New York University (2008)
B.A. Wesleyan University (2002), with honors, Phi Beta Kappa