Current Positions
2026 – present, Associate Professor of English, Northwestern State University (lobdelln@nsula.edu)
2023 – present, Editor, Nineteenth-Century Studies (Penn State UP)
Past Positions
2022 – 2026, Assistant Professor of English, Northwestern State University (Natchitoches, LA)
2016 – 2022, Visiting Assistant Professor of English, DePauw University (Greencastle, IN). Affiliate faculty in DePauw’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program, World Literature, Global Health, DePauw’s Honors program, and the Prindle Institute for Ethics.
2013 – 2016, Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA)
Education
2013 PhD in English, University of Georgia (Athens, GA)
Comprehensive Area: 19th-Century British Literature and Culture
Dissertation: “‘The Hoarding Sense’: Hoarding in Austen, Tennyson, Dickens, and Nineteenth-Century Culture.” Directed by Dr. Richard Menke with Dr. Roxanne Eberle.
2007 MA in English, University of Georgia (Athens, GA)
Thesis: “Piercing Vibrations: Orality and Literacy in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Auguste Villiers de I’Isle-Adam’s L’Eve Future.” Directed by Dr. Richard Menke with Dr. Tricia Lootens.
2005 BA in English, minor in Theater, Rhodes College (Memphis, TN)
Research and Teaching Interests
19th-century British literature and culture; the novel; history of medicine; science fiction studies; textual studies; gender and sexuality studies.
Publications (30)
In Progress
Book – Stranger than Fiction: The First Biography of Mary Shelley (in development)
Authored Books (1)
2024 X-RAY, Bloomsbury, Object Lessons Series, 2024. 150 pages.
In five chapters—Discovery, Mania, Vision, Exposure, and Foreign Bodies—X-ray draws together the early history of radiographic technology with literature, art, film, comics, politics, travel, law, architecture, and industrial design. Featured on BBC 4’s Thinking Allowed, episode “Medical Icons” (September 2024), and reviewed in Journal of Medical Humanities, Victorian Periodicals Review, Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities, and on MedHum.org
Edited and Co-edited Books and Special Issues (4)
2018 Critical edition of H. G. Wells’s The Invisible Man, including critical introduction, footnotes, and appendices. Edited with Dr. Nancee Reeves. Broadview Press, 2018. 226 pages. Reviewed in Science Fiction Studies.
2018 Guest Editor, “Frankenstein at 200” Science Fiction Studies, vol. 45, no. 2, July 2018, pp. 225-28. Written and edited with Dr. Michael Griffin.
2015 Guest Editor, “Nineteenth-Century Mobilities,” Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 37, no. 5, September 2015, pp. 387-90. Written and edited with Dr. Narin Hassan.
2015 Guest Editor, “Illustration and Gender: Drawing the Nineteenth Century” Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies. vol. 11, no. 2, July 2015. Written and edited with Dr. Kate Holterhoff. http://www.ncgsjournal.com/issue112/issue112.htm
Articles and Book Chapters (6)
2025 “Editing with Scissors: Jane Shelley’s Editorial Cuts in Shelley and Mary (1882).” Studies in the Literary Imagination, vol. 57, no. 2, 2024 (actual release date 2025), pp. 81-103.
2025 “Borrowed Shadows: H.G. Wells’s The Invisible Man” in Critical Insights: H.G. Wells, edited by Darren Harris-Fain, Anthem Press, 2025, pp. 105-126.
2021 “Immortal Voices” Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 43, no. 5, 2021, pp. 561-565.
2018 “Coining Counterfeit Culture: Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market” in Victorian Network, vol. 8, no. 1, Dec 2018, pp. 5-27. https://www.victoriannetwork.org/index.php/vn/article/view/82
2018 “Digging at the Roots: Martha Redbone’s The Garden of Love: Songs of William Blake.” Rock and Romanticism: An Anthology, edited by James Rovira, Lexington Books, 2018. pp. 51-64.
2016 “‘The Invisible Girl’: Gender and Form in Mary Shelley’s Short Stories.” Critical Insights: Mary Shelley, edited by Virginia Brackett, Salem Press, 2016, pp. 162-76.
Co-authored Articles and Book Chapters (1)
2022 “Ethical Simulation Games in the Liberal Arts Classroom: Civilization V, SimEarth, and Sweatshop” written with Harry Brown in Teaching Games and Game Studies in the Literature Classroom, edited by Tison Pugh and Lynn Ramey, Bloomsbury, 2022, pp. 111-120.
Short Essays, Encyclopedia Entries, and Online Resources (5)
2026 “The Mysterious History of Mary Shelley.” Verso, The Huntington Library, 06 Oct. 2026, https://www.huntington.org/watch-read-listen/verso/mysterious-history-mary-shelley
2025 “Victorians and the Discovery of X-Rays.” The Victorian Web. https://www.victorianweb.org/technology/xrays.html
2024 “Tennyson’s ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade.’” Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Gale, 2024, pp. 263-270.
2019 “A Curious New Woman: Veronica Speedwell” Nursing Clio: Romancing Clio Series. 12 Dec. 2019, https://nursingclio.org/2019/12/12/a-curious-new-woman-veronica-speedwell/
2017 “Margaret Fuller.” Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 381: Writers on Women’s Rights and United States Suffrage, edited by George P. Anderson, Gale Cengage, 2017, pp. 122-130.
Invited Book Review Essays (2)
2020 “Never Dead: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” Review Essay of Global Frankenstein, edited by Carol Margaret Davison and Marie Mulvey-Roberts (Palgrave McMillan, 2018) and Transmedia Creatures: Frankenstein’s Afterlives, edited by Francesca Saggini and Anna Enrichetta Soccio (U of Bucknell P, 2019) in Science Fiction Studies, vol. 47, no. 2, 2020 pp. 253-261.
2018 “The Value of Things After the V21 Manifesto” Review essay of Paraphernalia! Victorian Objects, edited by Helen Klingstone and Kate Lister (Routledge, 2018) in Nineteenth-Century Prose, vol. 47, no. 1, 2020, pp. 277-282.
Invited Book Reviews (10)
2024 Equal Natures: Popular Brain Science and Victorian Women’s Writing, by Shalyn Claggett, SUNY Press, 2023. Reviewed in Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 46, no. 4, 2024, pp. 531-533.
2020 Dickensian Affects: Charles Dickens and Feelings of Precarity, by Joshua Gooch, Routledge, 2019. Reviewed in Victorian Review, vol. 46, no. 1, 2020, pp. 135-138.
2019 Drawing on the Victorians: The Palimpsest of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Graphic Texts, edited by Anna Maria Jones and Rebecca N. Mitchell, Ohio UP, 2017. Reviewed in Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 41, no. 2, 2019, pp. 232-235.
2018 The Alchemy of Empire: Abject Materials and the Technologies of Colonialism, by Rajani Sudan, Fordham UP, 2016. Reviewed in Configurations, vol. 26, no. 1, 2018, pp. 109-110.
2016 Thomas Hardy’s Brains: Psychology, Neurology, and Hardy’s Imagination, by Suzanne Keen. Ohio State UP, 2014. Reviewed in Victorian Network, Special Issue: “Victorian Brains,” vol. 7, no. 1, 2016, pp. 148-52. http://www.victoriannetwork.org/index.php/vn/issue/view/12
2016 The Buried Life of Things: How Objects Made History in Nineteenth-Century Britain, by Simon Goldhill. Cambridge UP, 2014. Reviewed in Nineteenth-Century Studies, Online Reviews, 2016. http://english.selu.edu/ncs/Materiality.php
2015 Women’s Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain, by Melissa Edmundson Makala, U of Cardiff P, 2013. Reviewed in Supernatural Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, 2015, pp. 201-2.
2015 The Hidden Jane Austen, by John Wiltshire. Cambridge UP, 2014. Reviewed in JASNA News, vol. 31, no. 1, 2015, pp. 16.
2015 Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage, by Catherine Wynne. Palgrave, 2013. Reviewed in ELT 1880-1920, vol. 58, no. 2, 2015, pp. 272-75.
2013 Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians: From Commodities to Oddities, edited by Jonathon Shears and Jen Harrison, Ashgate, 2013. Reviewed in The Oxonian Review, vol. 26, no. 4, 24 Nov. 2014. http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/bric-a-brac/
Scholarly Papers and Lectures (30+ presentations)
Invited Public Talks for General Audiences (3)
2026 “For Private Circulation Only: The Secret History of Shelley and Mary (1882).” Huntington Library, Society of Fellows, San Marino, CA.
2025 “Stranger than Fiction: Rediscovering Shelley and Mary.” Keats-Shelley House, Rome, Italy.
2024 “X-ray Vision: How Seeing Through Objects Changes What We Know.” Northwestern State University of Louisiana.
Invited Academic Lectures (6)
2024 “Jane Austen’s Medical World.” University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Honors College.
2022 “Culture of the Invisible: X-rays in the Popular Imagination.” Colgate University, Global Public and Environmental Health program.
2021 “Gothic Science: X-rays and The Invisible Man.” University of Florida, Department of English.
2020 “The Ethics of Storytelling” in “Ethics and Pandemics: Examining the Critical Issues Raised by Covid-19.” Prindle Institute for Ethics, DePauw University.
2020 “The Invisible Man: How Science and Technology Created a Legend.” University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of English.
2019 “The Invisible Man: How Science and Technology Created a Legend.” University of Southern Indiana, Department of English.
Interviews (3)
2026 “The Widow Who Wrote the Widow: Nicole Lobdell on the Making of Mary Shelley’s Myth” Casa Carlini, interviewed by Charles Carlini. 29 Oct. 2026. https://casacarlini.com/blogs/interviews/the-widow-who-wrote-the-widow-nicole-lobdell-on-the-making-of-mary-shelley-s-myth
2025 “X-ray” New Books Network, interviewed by Victoria Lupascu. 19 Feb. 2025. https://newbooksnetwork.com/x-ray
2024 “Medical Icons” Thinking Allowed, BBC 4, interviewed by Laurie Taylor. 19 Sept. 2024, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00230wm
Conference Presentations (20)
2027 “Stranger than Fiction: Discovering Shelley and Mary (1882).” MLA annual conference, Los Angeles, CA. (forthcoming, January 2027)
2026 “Restricted Access: Shelley and Mary (1882) in the Archives.” North American Victorian Studies Association, Pasadena, CA. (forthcoming, November 2026)
2026 Invited roundtable speaker, “What Does the Huntington Library Have for Me?” Speaking on applying for Huntington fellowships and using the archives. North American Victorian Studies Association, Pasadena, CA. (forthcoming, November 2026)
2026 Invited roundtable speaker, “Editors Roundtable.” Speaking for interdisciplinary research and the journal Nineteenth-Century Studies, Pasadena, CA. (forthcoming, November 2026)
2024 “Stranger Than Fiction: The First Biography of Mary Shelley.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Cincinnati, OH.
2023 “‘She was Mrs. Shelley’: On Making the First Biographies of Mary Shelley.” Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, Sacramento, CA.
2021 “Bithia Mary Croker: 100 Years Later.” Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, Virtual Conference.
2019 “Bithia Mary Croker: The Secret in the Story.” North American Victorian Studies Association, Columbus, OH.
2019 “Defaced, Destroyed, Beheaded, Replaced: Vandalizing Queen Victoria.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Dallas, TX.
2018 “No Longer Within: How X-Rays Transformed the Victorian Body.” North American Victorian Studies Association, St. Petersburg, FL.
2018 “H.G. Wells’s The Invisible Man: Teaching the Invisible in 2018.” Roundtable Participant. Northeast Modern Language Association, Pittsburgh, PA.
2018 “Diurnal Time in the Early Poetry of Emily Brontë.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, San Francisco, CA.
2016 “False Scenes: Mary Shelley’s Short Stories.” British Women Writer’s Conference, Athens, GA.
2016 “‘Most Precious Treasures’: A History of Hoarding.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Asheville, NC.
2015 “The Mutability of Men: H. G. Wells’s The Invisible Man.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Atlanta, GA.
2012 “‘Walls of Words’: Novel Hoardings.” North American Victorian Studies Association, Madison, WI.
2011 “Bleak House: Dickens’s Little Shop of Hoarders.” Victorians Institute. Myrtle Beach, SC.
2011 “Complex Letters: Mary Hays, Jane Austen, and the Discourses of Masculine Correspondence.” British Women Writers Conference, Iowa City, IA.
2008 “Railway Mania, or The Failure of Common Sense.” North American Victorian Studies Association, New Haven, CT.
2008 “Fruitful Slang: The Economy and Wordplay of Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market.’” British Women Writers Conference, Bloomington, IN.
Conferences Organized (1)
2015 Co-Organizer. “Mobilities,” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies annual conference. Co-organized with Narin Hassan (Georgia Tech) and Carol Senf (Georgia Tech). April 16-19, 2015. Hosted in Atlanta, GA. 300+ attendees; 90+ panels, keynotes, and plenary sessions.
Other Conference Roles (11)
2027 Organizer, Panel “Serendipity in the Archives.” Participants: Mollie Barnes, Maura Ives, Nicole Lobdell, and Kate Phelan. MLA annual conference, Los Angeles, CA.
2026 Moderator, Panel “Current Archival Research Methods.” North American Victorian Studies Association, Pasadena, CA.
2025 Organizer and Presider, Panel “The Short Book: Brevity in Scholarship.” Participants: Jacquelyn Ardam, Lisa Gitelman, Judith Pascoe, Christopher Schaberg, Johanna Winant. MLA annual conference, New Orleans, LA.
2024 Moderator, Panel “Transhistorical Readings.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Cincinnati, OH.
2023 Moderator, Roundtable “Publishing.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Knoxville, TN.
2022 Moderator, Panel “Disability, Normativity, and Bodily Technologies.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Salt Lake City, UT.
2020 Moderator, Panel “Imperialist Environments.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Los Angeles, CA.
2016 Moderator, Panel “Public Performance, Private Desire: Charlotte Dacre and Mary Robinson.” British Women Writer’s Conference, Athens, GA.
2016 Moderator, Panel “Speculative Fiction.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Asheville, NC.
2015 Presider, Panel “Nineteenth-Century Science Fiction.” MLA annual conference, Austin, TX.
2011 Moderator, Panel “Leading Ladies,” British Women Writer’s Conference, Iowa City, IA.
Awards, Fellowships, and Grants (26)
2026 Dr. Mildred Hart Bailey Faculty Research Award, recognizing excellence in faculty research, Northwestern State University of Louisiana
2026 The Huntington Library, Short-Term Fellowship ($4000)
2026 College of Arts and Sciences Research and Scholarly Activity Grant, Northwestern State University of Louisiana ($2500)
2025 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend ($8000)
2025 College of Arts and Sciences Research and Scholarly Activity Grant, Northwestern State University of Louisiana ($2500)
2024 Huntington-Oxford Exchange Fellowship, Lincoln College, University of Oxford (one-month research fellowship)
2024 Faculty Research Support Grant, Northwestern State University of Louisiana ($1000)
2024 Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, Northwestern State University of Louisiana
2023 Harry Ransom Center, Short-Term Research Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin ($3000)
2023 Faculty Research Support Grant, Northwestern State University of Louisiana ($1000)
2022 Huntington Library, Short-Term Research Fellowship ($3500)
2021 Faculty Research Summer Award, DePauw University ($3000)
2021 Amy M. Braddock Award, Summer Research Stipend, DePauw University ($1000)
2020 Amy M. Braddock Award, Summer Research Stipend, DePauw University ($1000)
2020 Fisher Course Reassignment Award, DePauw University (one course release)
2020 Growing Inclusive Excellence in STEM, Grant for Medical Humanities Reading Group, funded by HHMI ($600)
2019 NEH Summer Institute Fellowship, “Colonial Experiences and Their Legacies in Southeast Asia,” East-West Center for Asian Studies, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI ($3500)
2019 Faculty Research Summer Award, DePauw University ($3000)
2017 Amy M. Braddock Award, Summer Research Stipend, DePauw University ($1000)
2015 LMC Summer Research/Creativity Grant, Georgia Tech ($1200)
2012 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Georgia
2009 Travel Award, UGA Foreign Travel Assistance Program ($800)
2009 Travel Award, North American Victorian Studies Association ($600)
2008 Travel Award, North American Victorian Studies Association ($400)
2008 Travel Award, Appleby Fund, University of Georgia ($600)
2007 Robert E. Park Award, Best Essay by a Graduate Student, University of Georgia
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Northwestern State University of Louisiana (2022-present)
SCTT 2820: Texts & Traditions IV Seminar (from Mary Wollstonecraft to Louise Erdrich)
SCTT 2810: Texts & Traditions III Seminar (from Dante to Margaret Cavendish)
SCTT 1820: Texts & Traditions II Seminar (from Plato to Boethius)
SCTT 1810: Texts & Traditions I Seminar (from Gilgamesh to Oedipus)
SENG 4210: LGBTQ+ Literature Survey
SENG 3880: Major Figure: Jane Austen
SENG 3880: Major Figure: Mary Shelley and Her Circle
SENG 3860: Studies in Contemporary Literature: Magical Realism
SENG 3590: Studies in British Literature: Drawing the Victorians: Literature and Illustration
SENG 3520: Studies in World Literature: Global Gothic Literature
SENG 2000: American & British Literature Seminar: Selfhood and Community
SGSS 2000: Intro to Gender and Sexuality Studies
SMHU 4000: Medical Humanities Seminar
DePauw University (2016-2022)
English Department
ENG 393: Adv. Lit & Culture: The Body in Pain: Disease & Disability in Literature, 1700-1900
ENG 393: Adv. Lit & Culture: Daring, Wild, Visionary: The Global Romantics
ENG 282: British Writers II Survey, 1780 CE to Present
ENG 281: British Writers I Survey, 680 CE to 1780 CE
ENG 269: LGBTQ+ Literature Survey
ENG 264: Topics: Women in Gothic Literature
ENG 255: Topics: Queer Victorians: LGBTQ+ Literature of the Long 19th Century
ENG 255: Topics: Global Gothic Literature
ENG 255: Topics: Gothic Short Stories: East and West Legacies
ENG 255: Topics: Dead Bodies in Literature, or the Corpse in the Corpus
ENG 255: Topics: Literature and Medicine
ENG 255: Topics: Brain on Fire: Medical Narratives
ENG 191: Science, Technology, and Nature
ENG 151: Intro to Literature
ENG 141: Intro to World Literature
Film Studies
FILM 184: ‘Let Me In’: Why We Love Horror
Global Health
GLH 242: Topics in Global Health: Literature and Medicine
Honor Scholar
HONR 300: Medical Humanities Seminar
Prindle Institute for Ethics: Experiential Reading Courses
UNIV 291: Jessica Bylander’s Narrative Matters: Writing to Change the Health Care System
UNIV 291: Steven Johnson’s The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic
UNIV 291: Jaipreet Virdi’s Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
WGSS 290: Topics: Women in Gothic Literature
WGSS 290: Topics: LGBTQ+ Literature
WGSS 140: Intro to Women’s Studies
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Literature, Media, and Communication (2013-2016)
ENGL 3316: Science, Technology, and Postcolonial Literature
ENGL 1102: Writing about Literature: Speculative Fiction of the Nineteenth Century
ENGL 1102: Writing about Literature: Voices of the Industrial Revolution
ENGL 1102: Writing about Literature: Birth of the Gothic Novel
ENGL 1101: Intro to College Writing: Going Viral: Writing about Global Disease
University of Georgia, Department of English (2007-2013)
ENGL 4000: Theories and Methods (Teaching Assistant)
ENGL 2330: American Literature I Survey, Beginnings to 1865
ENGL 2320: British Literature II Survey, 1700 to Present
ENGL 1102: Writing about Literature: Drama, Fiction, Poetry
ENGL 1101: Intro to College Writing
Thesis Supervisions (23)
Northwestern State University, English MA Thesis Reader (3)
Ella Dupuie, untitled work on Dracula (2026-27)
Joan Barbier, untitled work on dream theory (2026-27)
Zoe Moncla, “The ‘Unnatural’ Body: Trans Identity and Disability in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” (2023-24)
Louisiana Scholars’ College, Honors Thesis Director (8)
Mackayla Courtney, untitled thesis on tattoos (2026-27)
Rebecca Scott, untitled thesis on contemporary body horror novels by women (2026-27)
Kara Anderson, untitled thesis on contemporary YA novels (2025-26)
Madysen Morgan, “Toward an Ethical Fashion Industry: Ethics, Labor, and the Cost of Fast Fashion” (2025-26)
Kaitlyn Williams, “Seeking Truth and Shaping Adolescent Identity: Teaching Young Adult Literature” (2025-26)
Sam Young, “‘Shall I Tell the Truth Today?’: Gender Identity and Representation in Discworld” (2025-26)
Asia Martin, “Medical Humanities: A Look into Undergraduate Education” (2024-25)
Kristina Simon, “A Philosophical Evolution: Emily Dickinson’s Response to Platonic Philosophy” (2023-24)
Louisiana Scholars’ College, Honors Thesis Second Reader (5)
Ava Manuel, untitled thesis on modern forensic studies (2026-27)
Laurel Dickinson, “What Came First, Modernity or Protestantism?” (2024-25)
Makayla Dean, “The Use and Misuse of Mental Illness in Entertainment” (2023-24)
Jonathan Gennaro, “Her Afterlife: A Creative Retelling of Persephone” (2022-23)
Skylar Sanders, “Body Modification and the Self in Victorian Britain” (2022-23)
DePauw University, Honors Thesis Reader (7)
Riley Magoon, “Pain is Personal: Understanding Pain Relativity and the Importance of the Biopsychosocial Model” (2021-22)
Diana Borse, “Mostly Harmful? Phragmites Australia and Typha Angustifolia” (2020-21)
Maggie Ephraim, “Custody Battles: Reimagining Persephone’s Plight” (2020-21)
Eduardo Garcia, “Examining Barriers: Black Hispanic Men and Mental Health Services” (2020-21)
Vanessa Balis, “Friend or Foe? Chaucer’s Depiction of Women in Troilus and Criseyde” (2019-20)
Emma Giles, “The Domestic and Global Implications of Tuberculosis in the United States” (2019-20)
Olivia Miller, “Unpacking the Opioid Epidemic: Intervention Methods” (2018-19)
Professional Service
Editor, Nineteenth Century Studies (2023-present)
Board Member (ex officio), Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (2023-present)
Webmaster, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (2023-2025)
Prize Committee Member, Best Interdisciplinary Essay on the Nineteenth Century, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) (2021)
Board Member (ex officio), Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (2019-2025)
Conference Organizer, INCS 2015 “Mobilities,” Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Expert Manuscript Reader for Journal of Victorian Culture, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Nineteenth-Century Studies, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, Victorian Network, Science Fiction Studies, European Romantic Review, Prose Studies, Bloomsbury, Routledge, and University of Delaware Press.
University Service Roles
Northwestern State University of Louisiana
NSU Faculty Senator (2024-25, 2026-27)
NSU Research Council, Member (2026-27)
Chair of Louisiana Scholars’ College Hiring Committee in Social Science (2025-26)
Co-Chair of Louisiana Scholars’ College Hiring Committee in History (2024-25)
Forum Council Faculty Advisor (2023-25)
Student Retention Committee (2022-24)
Policies and Procedures Committee (2022-23)
DePauw University
Medical Humanities Reading Group, Organizer (2020-21)
Faculty Writing Group, Organizer (2017-22)
Global Health Steering Committee (2020-22)
World Literature Steering Committee (2020-22)
Literature Steering Committee (2016-21)
Empowerment and Inclusion Committee (2016-17, 2018-19, 2020-21)
Committee for Community Outreach (2016-18)
Fulbright Scholarship Program Advisor (2016-18)
Professional Development
Medical Humanities Reading Group, DePauw University (2020)
NEH Summer Institute, “Colonial Experiences and Their Legacies in Southeast Asia,” East-West Center, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI (2019)
Global Learning, Faculty Development Workshop, DePauw University (2019)
Power, Privilege, and Diversity, Faculty Development Workshop, DePauw University (2018)
Digital Mitford Workshop and Coding School, University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg (2015)
Digital Pedagogy Seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology (2014)
(updated October 11, 2026)