Expertise

Nineteenth-century American literature and culture, literature and medicine, especially illness narrative; American domestic fiction, historical narrative and life writing, the social history of Civil War relief work, history of nursing, and gender studies.

Past Affiliations

Affiliate Faculty, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Affiliated Faculty, Department of History, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study

Associate Professor, English Department, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Adjunct Professor, Women's Studies Program, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Professor, Program in Medical Humanities & Health Studies, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Affiliate Professor, American Studies, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Adjunct Professor, American Studies, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Adjunct Faculty, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Professor, Medical Humanities and Health Studies Program, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Communities
English
Degrees
PhD, University of Michigan, American Culture, 1988
MA, University of Michigan, English, 1978
BA, Stanford University, English, 1976
Keywords
literary criticism history of medicine american history language or literature women's studies
Languages
French, German, Italian
Honors

Finalist, Lincoln Prize 2005 (for WOMEN AT THE FRONT), Gilder-Lehrman Institute, New York

Finalist, Peter Seaborg Prize, 2005 (for WOMEN AT THE FRONT), George Tyler Moore Center (Shepherd University)

Associations
American Studies Association
Modern Language Association
Organization of American Historians
Society for the Study of American Women Writers
Southern Association of Women Historians