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 the Outreach and Engagement Librarian in Special Collections at the University of Maryland Libraries. Prior to this role, she served as 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

Related to the Poetry as Activism Project:

Post45: Contemporaries "Abortion Now, Abortion Forever”: Abortion Storytelling Cluster

"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.