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Academic research
In the digital age, many household skills like quilting, water-witching, and moonshining are going extinct. These traditions warrant protection because they teach us about the unique cultures and inventions in the rural U.S., such as in Appalachia.
Some tech companies may mistakenly believe that people in small towns don't care about technology. But tech-makers can learn from these rural problem-solvers. So I study how women, especially those who are LGBTQ+ and/or disabled, combine old and new technologies to preserve their stories. This research intersects across digital humanities, disability studies, and folklore.
Peer-reviewed articles
co-author of "Digital Writing and Cultural Rhetorics Pedagogies" pending publication in Constellations, 2021
first author of "The Fotonovela as a Healthcare Communication Tool: The Rural Women’s Health Project as a Case Study for Graphic Medicine and Health Justice" published in ImageText Journal, 2021
​"Kidnapped Amazonians, Severed Breasts, and Witches: Renaissance Perceptions of the Destructive Nature of the Freakish Female in Spenser's 'Bower of Bliss' and Shakespeare's Two Noble Kinsmen" published in the Digital Literature Review, 2016
Academic memberships
Member of the American Folklore Society
Member of the Society of Scholarly Publishing
Member of the Appalachian Studies Association
Member of the Archive of Healing
Member of Imagining America
Active in the official Graphic Medicine Facebook group
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Women in Academia Support Network
Founding member of the Disability Studies Reading Group in the University of Florida's English Department
Member of the LGBTQ+ Speaker's Bureau with the University of Florida's office of Multicultural and Diversity Affairs
Chapters and entries in edited collections with academic publishers
“The Pigments of Patriarchy and Femme Trans Exclusion in the History of the ‘All Natural’ Makeup Movement in Makeup in The World of Beauty Vlogging: Community, Commerce, and Culture, 2021
Women’s history encyclopedia entries: “Rural women in the war years,” “Irish motherhood, bodily autonomy, and Catholicism,” “Puritanism and idealized womanhood in colonial America,” “Women in World War II resistance,” and “Midwives in the 1900s United States" in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of the Daily Life of Women: How They Lived from Ancient Times to the Present, 2021
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“Public Humanities as a Model of Community Care” in Imagining America’s PAGE Blog Salon, 2019
Book reviews
"Review of Playing with the Book: Victorian Movable Picture Books and the Child Reader" in ImageText Journal, 2021
"A Review of Sarah Waters: Gender and Sexual Politics by Claire O’Callaghan” in Frontiers Journal of Women’s Studies, 2019
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Review of webseries Brown Girls in Gender Forum, 2019
"BOOK REVIEW: The Stonewall Reader, edited by the New York Public Library"on Harrison Middleton University's blog, 2019
"BOOK REVIEW: Better With Books by Melissa Hart" on Harrison Middleton University's blog, 2019
Chapters and entries in trade or other non-scholarly sources
“What Books Teach Us About Accessible Design: Assessing Book Design for Readers with Prosthetic Limbs" in UX Collective, 2020
“The Impact of Gender/Sex on Experiences with Artificial Technology,” a white paper written for Impact of Gender/Sex of Innovation of Novel Technologies (iGIANT), 2018
“Conversing with the Page: How Reading Can Make Us Better Speakers" in The Art of Communication in Lovely Silks Publishing, 2018
"From Cavemen to Musicals: Storytelling as a Tool for Emotional Healing" in The Alternative Well-being Sciences from Lovely Silks Publishing, 2017
“Underlying Punishment: How Clothing Marketed as ‘Empowering’ Can Actually Police Women’s Gender Conformity” in Voices de Queer Femmes Anthology, Vol. II, pending publication by The Vigil Center for the Arts
I am happy to provide my list of conferences upon request.
"From Digital Hygeine to Digital Wellness" on Facebook Live with Warrior Women, 2021
"A Twine Multimedia Narrative Workshop for Educator"at the University of Florida's Center for Teaching Excellence, virtual workshop, 2021
“Digital Storytelling Techniques”at the University of Florida’s Center for Teaching Excellence, virtual workshop, 2020
“Embracing the Mess in Digital Making” at the University of Florida in ENC 1136 Multimodal Writing/Digital Literacy course, 2020 in Gainesville, Florida
“Reading Sideways: Multimodal Text for 21st-Century Learners” at the University of Florida’s Center for Teaching Excellence, in-person and Zoom workshops, 2020 in Gainesville, Florida
“Asserting Our Voices: A Publishing Workshop” at the YP4 National Summit, 2019 in Oakland, California
“Mean Girls: A Workshop on Internalized Misogyny in Literature and Leadership Circles,” 2018 at Lyceum nb. 2 in Szczecin, Poland
Select invited talks
Select fellowships, grants, and residencies
National Endowment for the Arts competitive research internship, 2021
NASA and University of Florida's Exolith Lab Plant the Moon Challenge Scholarship, 2021
National Humanities Center podcasting institute, 2020
Movement School fellow in digital technology track, 2020
Society for Scholarly Publishing mentee in editing and design tracks, 2019-2020
PAGE fellow with Imagining America, 2019-2020
Harrison Middleton University Fellowship in Ideas, 2019
Scholar-in-Residence for iGIANT (Impact of Gender/Sex on Innovation and Novel Technology), 2018
Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Poland, 2017-2018
Ampersand Grant from Emory & Henry College to study publishing trends in Iceland, 2016