Welcome! I am a writer and a teacher based in New Jersey.
Trained as a literary scholar of nineteenth-century America, my scholarly work focuses on the abolition movement as it intersected with scientific thought.
I also write broadly about American literary history, particularly about women artists, the history of science, and the climate crisis.
You can find my work in The Nation, Lapham’s Quarterly, Boston Review, L.A. Review of Books, and elsewhere.
I teach writing at Princeton.
Publications
“The Silencing of Sylvia Plath,” The Nation, October 2024.
“Transformative Solidarity Can Empower People in This Terrible Time: An Interview with Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix,” Electric Literature, March 2024.
“Is the History of American Art a History of Failure?,” The Nation, July 2023.
“How Eco-Fiction Became Realer than Realism,” The Nation, August 2022.
“Diane di Prima and the Dream of the East Village Avant-Garde,” The Nation, November 2021.
“The Unfamiliar Orwell,” Chicago Review of Books, October 2021.
“Birth Stories: Review of Kendra DeColo,” Rumpus, October 2021.
“Gone Broody,” LARB Blog, March 2021.
“In and Of the Wreck,” Rumpus, January 2021.
“The Forgotten Women’s Fellowship that Forged a New Way of Writing,” The Nation, May 2020.
“The Science of Abolition,” Lapham’s Quarterly, March 2020.
“Emily Dickinson Escapes,” Boston Review, February 2020.
“The Overlooked Women of Black Mountain College,” The Nation, September 2019.
“Interview with Naomi Klein,”The Nation, September 2019.
“The Mistress’s Tools: White Women and the Economy of Slavery,”The Nation, February 2019.
“Eclipse Expeditions,” LARB, December 2018.
“The People in the Trees,” LARB, August 2018.