Author Chat: Audrey Clare Farley, PhD.

In this episode Em sits down with author & scholar Audrey Clare Farley to talk about her latest book, Girls and Their Monsters and the intersections of gender stereotypes, mental health research and American political history.  "Audrey Clare Farley is a writer, editor, and scholar of twentieth-century American culture with special interests in science and religion. She earned a PhD in English literature at University of Maryland, College Park, and now teaches history at Mount St. Mary’s University. She is the author of The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt and Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America, which was named a New York Times Editors’ Pick. Audrey’s essays have appeared in the Atlantic, New York Times, Washington Post, and many other outlets. She lives in Hanover, Pennsylvania." https://audreyclarefarley.com/ The Life She Wrote https://linktr.ee/thelifeshewrote   Credits: Original music by R. Scott Okamoto rscottokamoto.com