Speaking & Public Engagement

I speak to academic and general audiences on topics drawn from my research and public writing: the history of women's mental health, the cultural legacy of hysteria, trauma and dissociation in literature, therapeutic writing, and the way narrative shapes and is shaped by medicine.

I am available for invited lectures, conference presentations, podcast interviews, and public writing on these topics.

Available Topics:

From Hysteria to Sensitivity: A History of Women's Emotional Experience

What Victorian Novels Know About Trauma

Writing as Healing: The Science and Art of Therapeutic Writing

Writing What Haunts Us: Expressive Writing and the Untidy Narrative

Women's Mental Health Then and Now: Continuities and Ruptures