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History of Science

Affiliated Faculty

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Full-time Faculty

Rachel Adams

Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Provost's Senior Faculty Teaching Scholar

Research Interests

20th and 21st Century American Literature
Disability Studies
Health and Humanities
History of Science
Food and Sustainability
Film, Media, and Visual Studies
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Pop Culture
20th and 21st Century
Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism
American and the Americas
Medical Humanities
Science and Environmental Studies
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Full-time Faculty

Jenny Davidson

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Eighteenth-century British Literature and Culture
Cultural and Intellectual History
History of Science
The Contemporary Novel
Restoration and 18th Century
Europe
Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel
Britain

Affiliated Graduate Students

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Benjamin Hulett

PhD Student

Research Interests

Early American Literature
History of Science
Environmental and Medical Humanities
Indigenous Studies

Dissertation / Thesis Title

"Ecology and Time: Inflections of Colonial and Indigenous Thought in Early American Literature, from the Amazon Rainforest to the Maine Woods (1699-1862)"
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