The idea that storytelling can work as an agent of healing has encouraged human creativity and humanistic study for millennia. My research and writing explore this remarkable fact across languages, cultures, and time periods—in light of theories and testimonies both new and old.

I am an assistant professor of Ancient Studies/Classics at Scripps College. From 2022-24, I conducted research in Morocco on a therapeutic oral storytelling tradition known as the "halqa." My public humanities projects seek to harness the resources of comparative literary studies to open new spaces of cross-cultural dialogue between American and MENA cultures.