She is currently working on two book projects that explore the intersections of literature, science and social movements in nineteenth-century Britain. The first project—“Forms of Persuasion in Nineteenth-Century Britain”—explores the history of persuasion, as writers various conceived of the philosophy and practice of persuasion, or what writers called “rhetorical force,” in the context of the Napoleonic wars, the rise of modern sciences and social and political reform movements of the period. The second project investigates the origins of modern academic disciplines by examining and historicizing the emergence of the modern academic journal, in a hybrid project combining traditional literary historical practices of close reading with new methods of digital humanities research. She is the author of articles in ELH, NCGS, and Statistics and the Public Sphere.