Teaching

• American Popular Culture
• Speculative Fiction and Film
• American Poetry
• Literature, Culture, and the Environment
• Women's Literature
• Gender Studies & Queer Studies
• Intersectional Approaches to American Culture

Research Interests

• Speculative Fiction, SF and Fantasy TV and Film
• State Fictions and Violence in the long 19th Century
• Representations of Single-Sex Societies in American Culture
• 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-Century American Poetry
• Ecocriticism, Science and Technology Studies
• Theories of Place, Theories of Mobility
• Gender and Queer Studies, Feminist Criticism

Current Projects

• Fictions of a (Non-)Violent State: Gender, Technoscience, and Community in American Speculative Fiction (1870-1920)
• Critical Environmental Education and American Popular Culture
• Representations of Single-Sex Societies in American Culture
• Transatlantic Cultures of Decadence