I research medical rhetoric about abortion in the United States, as well as the interrelation of the body and discourse.  The intersections of cultural memory, social space, and performativity are most interesting to me.  In addition to journal articles on the subject, I have published the first of a projected three-volume history that traces medical anti-abortion discourse from the nineteenth century to today.  The first volume is Articulating Life's Memory: U.S. Medical Rhetoric about Abortion in the Nineteenth Century.  I am currently (slowly) drafting the second volume, Sign of Pathology: Abortion in U.S. Medical Rhetoric, 1880s to 1960s.  In the long term, I am conducting research (a.k.a., reading) for a volume that renovates the classical five canon of rhetoric (invention, arrangement, memory, style, delivery) through translation from a rhetorical skill set into a heuristic for analyzing different historical formations of rhetorical practice (generation, articulation, memory, aesthetics, and performativity), tentative title Working Papers on Rhetoric: A Will to Matter.  I have published a working paper on articulation and the kernel of an introduction in Rhetoric, Materiality, and Politics, edited by Barbara Biesecker and John Lucaites.