Complete Vitae Upon Request

Teaching Awards

Donna B. Hamilton Teaching Award (2019/2020). University of Maryland, College Park. Teaching and Learning Transformation Center Award for Teaching Excellence (2017/2018). University of Maryland, College Park.

EdUCATION

Ph.D., English, Duke University (2010-2017)                                                                                                          Certificate in Feminist Studies                                                                                                                                                        M.A., English, Georgetown University (2008-2010)                                                                                                                                               High Pass, Orals Examination                                                                                                                                                                B.A., English, Queens College, CUNY (2005-2008)                                                                                                                                              summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Book projects

Debunk Me Not: Magic and Marginilization, 1848-Present (In progress)

Communicating Truth in Flashes: Photography, Light, and Spirit (In progress)

Publications

“19th-Century Spirit Photography.” Oxford Research Encyclopedias of Literature. Oxford University Press. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.138

“Evidence from the Séance Room: How Do We Confront Supernatural Objects in the Archives?” (Out for review, Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice).

“Photochemical Witchery: The Feminization of the Magically Messy Science of Photography, from William Mumler to Julia Margaret Cameron,” chapter in Promiscuous Entanglements: Photography, Referentiality, and the Objective Turn. eds. Rasmus R. Simonsen and Geoff Bender. Fall 2018. (under consideration at Bloomsbury Press).

 “Enchanted Optics: Excavating the Magical Empirisicms of Holmesian Stereoscopic Sight,” Race, Vision, and Technology in the Nineteenth Century United States. ed. Shirley Samuels. Under contract with Lexington Books. Lexington Books. Fall 2019.

“The Spell and the Scalpel: Scientific Sight in Early 3D Photography.” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 3.2 (Fall 2015): 436-445.

“Poe’s Affective Faces.” Book Review of Adam Frank’s Transferential Poetics: from Poe to Warhol. Poe Studies: History, Theory, Interpretation 49 (2016): E6-E8.

INVITED TALKS

“Lincoln, the Clairvoyant: Representations of Spiritualism During the Civil War, 1861-Present.” Cornell University American Studies Colloquium. Fall 2019.

“Intuitive Historiography in the Archives.” University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture Colloquium Series. Spring 2017.

“Photochemistry and the Occult: Visualizing the Invisible in 19th-Century Photography.” Georgetown University, Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice. Spring 2016.