Publications
Recent and Celebrated!
Scholarly Digital Humanities Book
Beyond Seduction and Abortion:The Life and “Memoir” of Zulma Marache.
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An open-access digital humanities book that recovers the life and "Memoir" of French immigrant Zulma Marache, whose first-person account of seduction and abortion appeared in an 1844 newspaper and whose life challenges inherited narratives regarding pre-Civil War seduction and abortion.
This project was supported by an NEH summer stipend research grant.
Ghostwritten Memoir
92 Threads and Counting, a memoir written with Megan Liller Krivchenia. It’s not available for sale, but you can read both of our impressions of the writing process in my favorite Higher Call post of all time: “We Wrote a Book!”
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Creative and Craft-Related Writing
The Higher Call, my Substack Newsletter
Featuring creative writing, spiritual reflections, musings, and whatever else tugs at my heart.
Some of my favorites:
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"So Much Depends." 1 May 2026.
“Dear Giraffe in the Corner of my Living Room.” 30 January 2026.
“O Holy Light.” 22 December 2025.
“Arriving.” 11 November 2025.
“Wandering in the Cotswolds.” 12 August 2024.
Poem
“Madame Restell’s Astral Army of Sisterhood.” Forthcoming in Action, Spectacle.
Poem
“Synchronicity.” Changing the World with Words, 21 January 2026.
Personal Essay
“The Bread We Eat.” Changing the World with Words, 15 October 2025.
Creative Nonfiction
“Minnesota Nice Girls.” Fish Barrel Review, issue 10, September 2025.
Teaching-related Writing
Personal Essay
“Haiku as Meditative Practice.” Changing the World with Words, 6 August 2025.
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Opinion Piece
“Banned Books, Small Tasks, and Hope for Civil Discourse.” Inside Higher Ed, 15 March 2022.
Recent Scholarship
“Reproductive Justice, Race, and the Prescience of the Past”
[Review Essay of Dana Medoro’s Certain Concealments and Stephanie Peebles Tavera’s (P)rescription Narratives.] Canadian Review of American Studies, vol. 54, no. 1, 2024, pp. 110-118.
“Serial Intersections in the New York Herald and Mysteries of Paris.”
American Periodicals, no. 34, vol. 1, 2024, pp. 45-64.
“‘Her Voice was Heard’: The Antebellum Abortion Archive and the ‘Memoir of Zulma Marache.”
Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, vol. 40, nos. 1-2, 2023, pp. 29-58.
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“‘What Would Become of My Literary Career?’ Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth Stoddard,
and the Limits of Literary Traditions.”
Influence and Inspiration, special issue of the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, vol. 55, no. 1, 2022, pp. 65-96.