Hello and welcome!

My name is Molly. I received my PhD from the University of Michigan’s Department of English Language & Literature, where I studied the intersections of mass culture, popular literature, and sexual violence. My dissertation, entitled “The Genre of Rape: Women’s Popular Literature and Contemporary Representations of Sexual Violence” explored the place of rape narratives in genres popular with female audiences, including romance novels and memoir. I currently work as the Doctoral Program Assistant for the University of Michigan School of Information.

I was born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, and earned a B.A. in English at Stanford University, where I graduated with honors. I have strong opinions about romance novels, drink a lot of tea, and am devoted to my slightly temperamental cat, Willow.