She holds a Phd on 19th-century American women’s diaries and is the author of articles related to women’s history, narratives of the self, gender construction and body representation. She is currently working on the biography of a 19th-century novelist, prison reformer and advocate of woman’s superiority, Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham. She recently co-edited (with Laurence Lux-Sterritt) a book entitled Spirit, Faith and Church, Women’s Experiences in the English-Speaking World (17th-21st Centuries) and is now working on a book project on autothanatography in collaboration with Sophie Vallas.