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I am a cultural historian of the 20th-century US, with a focus on gendered popular culture – particularly popular therapeutic cultures and the media cultures that sustain them.
My book The Language of the Heart: Twelve-Step Recovery from AA to Oprah was published in 2009 by University of North Carolina Press. I m the co-editor (with Timothy Aubry) of Rethinking Therapeutic Culture (U. Chicago, 2016). My public-facing work has appeared in places like Bitch: Feminist Responses to Popular Culture, Inside Higher Ed, and Raritan: A Quarterly Review.
In 2012, with my colleague Joe Spillane, I co-founded Points: the Blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society, where I now serve as Managing Editor Emerita. My current project Feminists on Drugs: A History is under contract with the University of Chicago Press.