General Interest Writing

“Our Flag Means Death and Queer Utopias at Sea,” Global Maritime History (2022). https://globalmaritimehistory.com/our-flag-means-death-and-queer-utopias-at-sea/

“‘o what happiness it wood be for me to see you once more’: A Mother’s Letter, a Royal Navy Sodomy Hanging, and the Tragic in Queer History,” Nursing Clio (2022). https://nursingclio.org/2022/06/23/o-what-happiness-it-wood-be-for-me-to-see-you-once-more-a-mothers-letter-a-royal-navy-sodomy-hanging-and-the-tragic-in-queer-history/

“London’s Mollies,” 2021 Pride Month video for Huntington Library social media (archived on Huntington Library’s Instagram account).

“Rears and Vices: The Austens and Naval Sodomy,” Notches (2018). http://notchesblog.com/2018/12/13/rears-and-vices-the-austens-and-naval-sodomy/

“The Curious Afterlives of Ambroise Paré,” Verso (2018). https://www.huntington.org/verso/2018/11/curious-afterlives-ambroise-pare

“‘I am no Man to be tried by a Court Martial’: A Nelsonian Sailor Claims ‘Neutrality of Gender,’” Gender and the Sea (2018). https://genderedseas.blogspot.com/2018/10/i-am-no-man-to-be-tried-by-court.html

“Exploring Women’s Medical History in the Rubenstein Library,” Duke University Learning Innovation blog (2018). https://learninginnovation.duke.edu/blog/2018/09/exploring-womens-medical-history-in-the-rubenstein-library/

“Prepare for the Worst,” OUPblog (2013). https://blog.oup.com/2013/06/17th-century-home-remedies/

“Remedies, Surgery, and Domestic Medicine,” The Recipes Project (2013). https://recipes.hypotheses.org/1568

“Early Modern Breast Surgeries and Recipes,” The Recipes Project (2012). https://recipes.hypotheses.org/618

“‘Butcher-like and hatefull’: Domestic Medicine and Resistance to Surgery in Early Modern England,” Charles Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe/JScholarship (2010). https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/34983

Academic Writing

Editor, Sexual and Gender Difference in the British Navy, 1690-1900 (Routledge, 2023, forthcoming). https://www.routledge.com/Sexual-and-Gender-Difference-in-the-British-Navy-1690-1900/LeJacq/p/book/9781032409900

Co-editor, Adventure, Inquiry, Discovery: CLIR-Mellon Fellows and the Archives (CLIR, 2023); author, “Unspeakable Crimes: Repressing and Recovering Queer History in the Naval Archives” and “Teaching with Archives”; co-author, “Archival Futures: Optimism During Times of Crisis.” https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/adventure-inquiry-discovery/ (free download)

“‘O my poor Arse, my Arse can best tell’: Surgeons, Ordinary Witnesses, and the Sodomitical Body in Georgian Britain,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 31.2 (2022): 137-68. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/858001/

“Escaping Court Martial for Sodomy: Prosecution and its Alternatives in the Royal Navy, 1690-1840,” International Journal of Maritime History 33.1 (2021): 16-36. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0843871421991169

“London, by Accident,” Eighteenth-Century Life 45.1 (2021): 114-20. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/777662

“Military Medicine,” in Reading Early Medicine project (2019), ed. Mary Fissell, Elaine Leong, and Robert Casties. https://reademed.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/article/military-medicine (free download)

“Buggery’s Travels: Royal Navy Sodomy on Ship and Shore in the Long Eighteenth Century,” Journal for Maritime Research 17.2 (2015): 103-116. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21533369.2015.1094980

“The Bounds of Domestic Healing: Medical Recipes, Storytelling, and Surgery in Early Modern England,” Social History of Medicine 26.3 (2013): 451-68. (Winner of the Roy Porter Memorial Prize.) http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/3/451 (free download)