I am an MD/PhD candidate at the University of California, Irvine. 

As a future psychiatrist and physician-scholar, I am passionate about what the past can teach us about healing the mind.

I completed my PhD in UCI’s Department of English, with an emphasis in Medical Humanities as well as specializations in Medieval, 18th c., and 19th c. British literature.

My research explores the relationship between early psychiatric practice, literature, and the history of religion. In rediscovering the healing imagination in eighteenth-century medicine and the early Gothic novel, I tell a new history of psychiatry.

I am also an expert on Inkling and physician Robert E. Havard (1901-1985), who provides the focus of my current book project, The Medical Inkling (currently under contract at Kent State UP).

In my free time, I’m usually crafting, sewing, or creating new worlds in 1:12 miniature scale.