Pending

“The Practitioner, the Novelist, and the Case Witness: Complicating Maternal Guilt through Gothic Narratives of Domestic Cruelty-induced Premature Labor in the Late Eighteenth Century” (under re-review)

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“Toward Bibliotherapy and Narrative Medical Practice in and beyond Samuel Richardson’s Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded” (forthcoming in Literature as Clinic: Patient Narratives of the Eighteenth Century; under contract, University of Delaware Press. Eds. Cynthia Richards and Lilith Todd)

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“Anatomy” and “Science Fiction.” (forthcoming in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Romantic-Era Women's Writing. Ed. Natasha Duquette)

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EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES AND HEALTH HUMANITIES

(2025) “'Labors with her Neighbors.' Review of Sarah Fox's Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England.” Eighteenth-Century Life 2025 49(1): 110-115. [teaser]

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(2024) “Science.” The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Romantic-Era Women's Writing. Palgrave Macmillan. 2024. Ed. Natasha Duquette. [abstract]

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(2022) “‘Nursed under his own Eye’: Co-Nursing Fathers and the Spectacle of Breastfeeding in the British Romantic Period.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 2022 34(4): 441-469. [abstract]

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(2020) “Review of John Wiltshire's Frances Burney and the Doctors: Patient Narratives Then and Now,” Medical History 2020 64(4): 545-546. [text]

*See Additional Contributions
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SCIENCES

(2025) Tobias I. C., Moorthy S.D., Shchuka V.M., Langroudi L., Gillespie Z.D., Duncan A.G., Cherednychenko M., Gajewska N.A., Di Roberto R.B., and Mitchell J.A.. “A Sox2 Enhancer Cluster Regulates Region-Specific Neural Fates from Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells.” G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 2025 jkaf012. [abstract]

 

(2024) Platania A., Erb C., Barbieri M., Molcrette B., Grandgirard E., de Kort M.A.C., Pomp W., Meaburn K., Taylor T., Shchuka V.M., Kocanova S., Nazarova M., Oliveira G.M., Mitchell J.A., Soutoglou E., Lenstra T.L., Molina N., Papantonis A., Bystricky K., and Sexton T. “Transcription processes compete with loop extrusion to homogenize promoter and enhancer dynamics.” Scientific Advances 2024 10(50): eadq0987. [text]

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(2024) Khader N., Shchuka V.M., Dorogin A., Shynlova O., and Mitchell J.A. “SOX4 exerts contrasting regulatory effects on labor-associated gene promoters in myometrial cells.” PLoS One 2024 19(4): e0297847. [text]

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(2023) Shchuka V.M., Khader N., Dorogin A., Shynlova O., and Mitchell J.A.. “MYB and ELF3 differentially modulate labor-inducing gene expression in myometrial cells.” PLoS One 2023 18(1): e0271081. [text]

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(2022) Taylor T., Sikorska N., Shchuka V.M., Chahar S., Ji C., Macpherson N., Moorthy S.D., de Kort M.A.C., Mullany S., Khader N., Gillespie Z.E., Langroudi L., Tobias I.C., Lenstra T.L., Mitchell J.A., and Sexton T. “Transcriptional regulation and chromatin architecture maintenance are decoupled modular functions at the Sox2 locus.” Genes & Development 2022 36(11-12): 699-717. [text]

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(2021) Khader N., Shchuka V.M., Shynlova O., and Mitchell J.A.. “Transcriptional Control of Parturition: Insights from Gene Regulation Studies in the Myometrium.” Molecular Human Reproduction 2021 27(5): gaab024. [text]

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(2020) Shchuka V.M., Abatti L.E., Hou H., Khader N., Dorogin A., Wilson M.D., Shynlova O., and Mitchell J.A. “The pregnant myometrium is epigenetically activated at contractility-driving gene loci prior to the onset of labor in mice.” PLoS Biology 2020 18(7): e3000710. [text]

*Check out the research departmental news story on this paper here!

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(2017) Moorthy S.D., Davidson S., Shchuka V.M., Singh G., Malek-Gilani N., Langroudi L., Martchenko A., So V., Macpherson N.N., and Mitchell J.A. “Super-enhancers and regular enhancers have an equivalent regulatory role in embryonic stem cells through regulation of single or multiple genes.” Genome Research 2017 27(2): 246-258. [text]

*NB: All embryonic stem cell lines used in this publication were of murine origin.

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(2015) Shchuka V.M., Malek-Gilani N., Singh G., Langroudi L., Dhaliwal N.K., Moorthy S.D., Davidson S., Macpherson N.N., and Mitchell J.A. “Chromatin dynamics in lineage commitment and cellular reprogramming.” Genes 2015 6(3): 641-661. [text]

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Additional Contributions

(2014) “The Unidentified Bridesmaid: The Narrator’s and Fanny’s Silences in Mansfield Park", Jane Austen Society of North America. (2014) Web. [text]

• Second place in 2014 JASNA Essay Contest, Graduate Student Division

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(2013) “Mirroring: Art’s Reflection of Character in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Emma",  IDIOM: English Undergraduate Academic Journal, 7 (2013): 31-39. [text]

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