Her research focuses on a concept she calls “real-world therapy”: everyday experiences in fiction and life that occasion therapeutic effects outside a clinical setting. Recently appearing in Skin, Culture, and Psychoanalysis (Palgrave 2013), her article, “Split Skin: Adolescent Cutters and the Other,” adds a psychoanalytic dimension to the growing body of work that recognizes cutting as a form of self-therapy. Other recent projects include “‘Shame, thas a shame’: The Anti-Sentiment of Sapphire’s Push and The Kid” in The Sentimental Mode: Essays in Literature, Film and Television (McFarland 2014) and “‘Nothing Hangs Together,’ or Using American Pastoral to Teach Literary Theory” in Cercles’ 2014 Special Issue on Philip Roth (www.cercles.com). She may be reached at edgalioto@ship.edu.