Jeannette Schollaert writes about plants and abortion in American fiction from the nineteenth century to the present.
She earned her PhD in English and a Graduate Certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park in May 2023.
Currently, she is Project Manager for the Mellon-funded “Poetry as Activism” project at the University of Delaware Library, Museums & Press.
Areas of Expertise
Literary & Cultural Studies
Experiential Learning
Digital Archives
Recent Writing
“Introduction,” with Jena DiMaggio and Margaret Ronda, and “Grow Abortion Power: Herbal Abortifacients & Abortion Storytelling” in the "Abortion Now, Abortion Forever”: Abortion Storytelling Cluster, Post45: Contemporaries, June-July 2023.
"Cultivating Access, Cultivating Ignorance: A Survey of Herbal Abortifacients in American Fiction.” The Palgrave Handbook of Reproductive Justice and Literature, eds. Beth Widmaier Capo and Laura Lazzari. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Plant Humanities Lab
Tamarind: From Shady Refuge to Versatile Foodstuff, co-written with Allison Fulton and Amara Santiesteban Serrano.
National Endowment for the Humanities Blog
“Phantom Records: A Two-Part Series on Searchability and Records in Chronicling America” Parts One and Two.
Dickinson Electronic Archives
“The Ghosts of Emily Dickinson: Hauntings in Popular Culture,” co-edited with Elizabeth Dinneny.