I am an Associate Professor of English and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at Waukesha, where I direct the College of General Studies Honors Program.
In January 2021, I assumed co-editorship, along with my colleague Dr. Anna Maria Jones, of the academic journal Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism.
In my scholarly work, I focus primarily on how science informs conceptions of gender identity, sexuality, and aestheticism in nineteenth-century British literary culture, and my current book project looks at transgender identities in Victorian literature. I also work on steampunk literature and culture’s retro-futuristic re-imagining of the nineteenth-century, especially in terms of non-binary gender identities.
I teach literature and women’s studies courses in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, women’s literature, science fiction and fantasy literature, steampunk literature and culture, popular culture, feminism, and LGBTQ+ studies. All of my classes mobilize digital tools to encourage students to approach analysis as a form of critical making.