2021. "Faecal microbiota transplants: towards a healthy disgust scepticism." Medical Humanities.
2020. "Boundary Work and Boundary Objects: Synthesizing Two Concepts for Moments of Controversy." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication.
2017. "The Microbial Mother Meets the Independent Organ: Cultural Discourses of Reproductive Microbiomes.” The Journal of Medical Humanities.
This project genealogically traces human relations with a specific bacterial species, Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile). Bacteria, Bodies, and Boundaries argues that the possibility of being a bacterial human can be understood through the germ theory of subjectivity, or a way of being human constituted through our historical relations to bacteria dating back to Antony Van Leeuwenhoek's first documented bacterial encounter. The book considers the agency of Clostridioides difficile as a Harawayian companion species. As medical scientists discursively constitute C. difficile as possible pathogenic and later as an urgent health threat, I argue this bacterium continually resists human efforts to delineate the bacterial from the human. Instead, C. difficile forces a human confrontation with our own bacterial selves as fecal-borne filth and bacteria become a potential medical cure.
2021. "Don't Let Medical History Repeat Itself." Presentation for the BARC COMMons, Louisiana Tech University, Louisiana. 4 May.
2019. "Bacteria and the Human Microbiome: Finding Clostridioides difficile in the Archive." Public Reading, Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, Colorado. 19 February.
2018. "Sensory Playground: Communicating the Body through Experimentation and Innovation." Nataional Communication Association Spotlight Series, Salt Lake City, Utah. 8-10 November.