My research explores cultural, rhetorical, and scientific spaces of reproduction and reproductive loss. My work is deeply informed by feminist science studies and feminist new materialism. I am particularly interested in how science studies and rhetoric can inform one another, as well as thinking about how different scales of communication—cellular, hormonal, environmental, and linguistic—relate to and complicate one another. As a rhetorician of health and medicine, I am concerned with how scientific knowledge is produced in concert with medical practices and rhetorics of embodiment, and how those different sites inform the kinds of knowledge and practices that come into being.

I’m currently at work on my first monograph, provisionally titled Tracing Loss: Feminist Anatomies of Reproduction, Miscarriage, and Time. In this work, I argue for a reintegration of reproductive loss into models of pregnancy in order to broaden our cultural discourse surrounding reproductive justice and maternal-fetal health. In addition to this attention to pregnancy and pregnancy loss, my work examines issues such as rhetorics of olfaction, the relation between microbiomes and reproduction, graphic medicine, and histories of the women’s health movement. My interdisciplinary work can be found in journals such as Peitho, Body & Society, and Feminist Theory.