Experts in: Gender studies
MALCOLM, Jane
Professeure agrégée
MARTIN SEVILLANO, Ana Belen
MEEK, Heather
Professeure agrégée
- 18th Century Literature
- Women's Writing
- History of medicine
- Literature and Medicine
- Women's Studies
- Gender studies
Heather Meek’s research interests include women’s writing, medical treatises, and the intersections of literature and medicine. Much of her published work looks at the subject of eighteenth-century hysteria by examining contemporaneous medical texts and first-hand accounts by women writers who themselves suffered from the condition. She has written on the ways that hysteria is at once a veritable illness, an elusive cultural condition, an intellectual affliction, and a vehicle for feminist thought. Her current project, funded by a SSHRC Insight grant (2019-2023), explores the medical knowledge of a group of eighteenth-century women writers and considers medical and literary understandings of conditions ranging from melancholy, hysteria, and madness; to chlorosis, pregnancy, and childhood illness; to smallpox, consumption, and breast cancer.
NEDVYGA, Olga
Professeure adjointe
- Hispanic-American Literature
- Caribbean literature
- Études caribéennes
- Discours scientifique
- 19th century
- History of medicine
- Eastern Europe
- Études postcoloniales
- Autofiction
- Écriture expérimentale des femmes
- 20th century
- 2000 A.D. - Present
- Diaspora
- Popular culture
- Latin American Cultural Studies
- National Identity Discourse
- Women's Writing
- Gender studies
- Caribbean cinema and criticism
- Globalization
- Literature of the African diaspora
- Poetry and poetics
- Aesthetics