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I'm Associate Dean, Department Chair, and Associate Professor of English Literature and Language at St. Mary's University in San Antonio. My research interests include nineteenth-century American literature and the medical humanities. My current book project examines embodiment in American Gothicism.

My first book, The Perfecting of Nature: Reforming Bodies in Antebellum Literature, explores the connections among literature, medicine, and social reform in the antebellum United States. It was published by UNC Press in 2020. ...more

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The Perfecting of Nature: Reforming Bodies in Antebellum Literature

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Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory

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The Dream Life of Larry Rios

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