

Triangles and Taxidermy: Re-Creating Animal Bodies as Digital Fragments
Animal Bodies, a new website I am working on, draws inspiration from the epilogue of my dissertation, Strange and Unstable Bodies:...


Race and the Environment in Early American Literature
This website is the product of an independent study in Spring 2013. I designed and built the website from scratch using HTML and CSS, and...


“Still Playful and Still Elusive”: Researching and Representing Hartford Female Seminary’s Handwritt
Click here for a sample transcription of the first issue of The School Gazette. Hartford Female Seminary’s Handwritten Newspapers are...


Jupiter Hammon and Archival Discovery
While working on a project in a graduate course taught by Dr. Cedrick May in Fall 2011, I discovered a previously unknown and unpublished...


Late Night Research and Freaky Animal Puppets
Originally posted on April 23, 2012 on English Matters: The UTA Department of English Blog. During a round of late night research several...
John Smith’s and Cotton Mather’s Descriptions of American Wilderness
Originally posted on my WordPress blog. In Chapter 1 of American Curiosity, Susan Scott Parrish writes that in the 16th and 17th...
Susan Scott Parrish – American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlant
Originally posted on my WordPress blog. American Curiosity is an excellent and fascinating book that brings together an impressive amount...
Diseased Bodies and Sentimental Wounds: Richard Allen’s & Absalom Jones’s A Narrative of the Yel
Originally posted on my WordPress blog. Philip Gould, in his article “Race, Commerce, and the Literature of the Yellow Fever in Early...
Intertwining of Nature and Culture in Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia
Originally posted on my WordPress blog. In Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson writes in Query VI: The bees have generally extended...
Divisions of Space and Nature in A Narrative of the Lord’s Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a B
Originally posted on my WordPress blog. In this post, I want to focus on the spatial divisions and depictions of borders between...