About

I’m a literary critic and fiction writer. I wrote the novels The Quelling (Lanternfish, 2018) and An Unclean Place (Lanternfish, 2023), as well as two academic monographs, Science, Language, and Reform in Victorian Poetry (Routledge, 2019) and Victorian Literature, Queer Longing and the Shore, 1840–1920 (forthcoming, Edinburgh University Press, 2026). My research interests include women, gender, and sexuality, the environmental humanities, the blue humanities, writing pedagogy, and critical feminist pedagogy. Originally from Atlanta, I have lived in New York, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and now Lund, Sweden, where I teach literature and writing and live with my husband, daughter, and pets.

Here is a link to a recent critical/creative talk I gave at Salford, and here is a link to a blue humanities and mythology conference I am co-organizing at Lund University.