Publications

"Freedom Flora: Botanical Revision & Community in African American Friendship Albums." J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2022, pp. 49-76.

Papers Delivered

"Cotton People: Race, Labor, & Animation in Fertilizer Trade Cards." C19: The Society of Nineteenth Century Americanists. Coral Gables, FL. March 31-April 2, 2022. 

"Freedom Flora: Botanical Revision & Community in African American Friendship Albums." C19: The Society of Nineteenth Century Americanists. Virtual Conference. October 2020. 

"'The feeling of myself, as of some plant': Character, Plants, & Gender in Herman Melville's Pierre." International Society for the Study of Narrative Conference. New Orleans, Louisiana. March 2020. 

“Botanical Stowe.” American Literature Association Annual Conference 2018. San Francisco, California. May 2018. 

"Beyond Sympathy's Narrative: Women & the Nonhuman World in Nineteenth-Century American Literature." International Society for the Study of Narrative Conference 2016. University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands). 

'"The Middle Distance": Structures of Temporality in Lena Grove's Light in August.' Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference 2014. University of Mississippi (Oxford, MS).  

My dissertation, Strange Blooms: Thinking Botanically in Nineteenth Century America, explores botanical figurations of personhood in nineteenth-century American literature and visual culture.