MEEGAN KENNEDY, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Brown University (2000), M.A. University of Virginia (1992), B.A. Yale University (1988). Dr. Kennedy studies the relationship between the nineteenth-century British novel and medical narratives, especially case histories. Her research interests include Victorian literature and culture, theory and history of the British novel, fiction of empire, literature and medicine, Victorian literature and science, nineteenth-century theories of visuality, and gender theory. She is currently the book review editor for the Journal of Medical Humanities and an editor of the Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database online, as well as a compiler for the "Victorian Bibliography" published annually by Victorian Studies.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

• "'Poor Hoo Loo': Sentiment, Stoicism, and the Grotesque in British Imperial Medicine." Victorian Freaks, ed. Marlene Tromp. Forthcoming from Ohio State University Press.
• "The Ghost in the Clinic: Gothic Medicine and Curious Fiction in Samuel Warren's Diary of a Late Physician," Victorian Literature and Culture 32.2 (Fall 2004).
• "Syphilis and the Hysterical Female: The Limits of Realism in Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins," Women's Writing, 11.2 (June 2004).

REVIEWS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS

• Review of Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture, by Martha Stoddard Holmes. Literature and Medicine, 25.1 (Spring 2006): 172-75.
• Review of Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body, by Anna Krugovoy Silver. Victorian Studies 47.2 (Winter 2005): 285-86.
• "Hester Salusbury Thrale (Mrs. Piozzi)," Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, ed. David Scott Kastan. Oxford: Oxford UP (forthcoming).
• "Medicine: Between Literature and Science," ASBH [American Society for Bioethics and Humanities] Exchange 7.7 (Summer 2004): 3, 9.
• Annotations of texts by Defoe, Mary Shelley, George Eliot, Djuna Barnes. Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database, in ten-year anniversary print edition (NYU: 2003). These and others also available online. Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database, http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db, 54th edition (Jul 2004).
• "Language Experiments and Scientific Fads." Rev. of Modernism, Technology, and the Body: A Cultural Study, by Tim Armstrong. Journal of Medical Humanities, 22.2 (Summer 2001).
• "Hermaphrodites: Or, How Modern Medicine Constructed the Single-Sex Body." Rev. of Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex, by Alice Domurat Dreger. Journal of Medical Humanities, 22.2 (Summer 2001).

CURRENT RESEARCH

• Rewriting the Clinic: Vision and Representation in Victorian Novels and Medical Narratives (book in progress).