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

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

Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel

Affiliated Graduate Students

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)"