Barrow came to Point Park from Washington University in St. Louis, where she received her Ph.D. in August 2014. She recently completed a book manuscript, Political Dialects: Science, Language, and Reform in Victorian Poetry, which examines the link between language-controversies and the rise of radical politics in Victorian Britain, and she is beginning a new project on Anglophone poetry and scientific culture in nineteenth-century India. Lanternfish Press published her first novel, The Quelling, in September 2018.