Education: B.A., Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota; M.A., English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Ph.D., English and Rhetoric, The Pennsylvania State University
 
Research Interests: rhetoric of science and medicine, rhetorical theory, disability studies, bioethics
 
Essay: “To Find the Soul, It is Necessary to Lose It: Disability, Neuroscience, and the Epigraph to The Echo Maker ” in Intersections: Essays on Richard Powers.
 
Recent presentations: “Of Miracles and Zombies: Media Representations of Lobotomy, 1936-1956.” Society for Literature and Science (2007); “'A Lightning Rod Issue': Lobotomy in American Culture.” Invited talk given to Penn State Neuroscience Research Institute and Department of Neurosurgery (2007); “Claiming Identity: University Policy Rhetoric and a Malingering Model of Disability.” Conference on College Communication and Composition (2007).

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