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
Related to the Poetry as Activism Project:
“A View from the Vault: The Floating Bear Newsletter.” UD Library, Museums and Press News. 10 April, 2024.
Post45: Contemporaries "Abortion Now, Abortion Forever”: Abortion Storytelling Cluster
“Introduction,” with Jena DiMaggio and Margaret Ronda, June 2023
“Grow Abortion Power: Herbal Abortifacients & Abortion Storytelling,” 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.