She received her PhD in English and MA in Nineteenth-Century Studies from the University of Sheffield and her BA in English from Davidson College. She specializes in the intersection of literature, medicine, and science, specifically in the nineteenth- and twentieth centuries. She has published several articles on science, medicine, and literature, specifically on the works of H.G. Wells, Arthur Machen, and Robert Louis Stevenson, and was editor of (Re)creating Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007).