Medical Humanities

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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Affiliated Faculty

Eileen Gillooly

Executive Director, Heyman Center for the Humanities and Society of Fellows; Adjunct Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Research Interests

19th Century British Literature and Culture

Gender and Psychoanalytic Studies

19th-Century Moral Psychology

19th-Century British Colonial Literature and Culture, including Ireland

Medical Humanities

Public Humanities

Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Studies

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

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Arden A. Hegele

Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

19th-Century Literature

Poetry and Poetics

Women's Literature

Medical Humanities

Literary Technology

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Full-time Faculty

Maura Spiegel

Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

Medical Humanities

20th-Century British and American Literature

19th Century British Literature and Culture

19th-Century European Novel

European Modernism

American Studies

Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel

Affiliated Graduate Students

Ramathi Bandaranayake

PhD Student

Research Interests

Britain, Europe, 20th/21st Century British,, Comparative , Literature and Translation, Modernism, Medical Humanities, Philosophy, 20th Century Russian, Literature and War, Literature and Science

Ruby Lark Mendelsund

PhD Student

Research Interests

Global Anglophone, Creative Writing, Creative-Critical, Affect Theory, Disability Studies, Science and Environmental Studies, Medical Humanities, Psychoanlaysis, Madness Studies

Vivian Ziqi Lei

PhD Student

Research Interests

Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies, Global Asias, Affect Theory, History of the Body, Medical Humanities