Health Humanities
Health humanities is an emerging strength within the English unit at 天堂视频. Our research explores the intersection of English, Humanities, Health, Healthcare, and Wellbeing.
We have particular expertise in mental health in the nineteenth century, ageing and the contemporary, ill-health and work in the twenty-first century, early modern dietary culture (including Shakespeare), and early modern women’s health, pregnancy, and childbirth.
Our exhibition: Health from Cradle to Grave: Birthing Chair to Death Couch took place in the Martin Hall Exhibition Space from 27 March - 23 April 2024.
Dix, A and Read, S (2023) , Adaptation, 16(3), pp.406-426, ISSN: 1755-0637. DOI: .
Evans, J and Read, S (2022) , Women's Writing, 29(4), pp.491-496, ISSN: 0969-9082. DOI: .
Read, S (2020) , Women's Writing, 27(3), pp.361-376, ISSN: 0969-9082. DOI: .
Read, S (2023) , Wild Pressed Books, ISBN: 978-1916377455.
Read, S (2020) , Wild Pressed Books, ISBN: 978-1916489684.
Read, S (2024) . In Dopfel, CG (ed) Maternal Materialities: Objects, Rituals and Material Evidence of Medieval and Early Modern Childbirth, Brepols Publishers, pp.187-200, ISBN: 9782503605739.
Parker, S. and French, J. (2021). But with this I’m embodied’: H.D.’s Public Portraits 1913-1958. Feminist Modernist Studies, 4(1), 93–124.
French, J. (2021). Still Tickin’: Betye Saar, Ageing and Assemblage. Women: A Cultural Review, 32(1), 2021, 70–85.
O'Callaghan, C (2022) , Women's Writing, 29(4), pp.566-582, ISSN: 0969-9082. DOI: .
O'Callaghan, C (2018) Emily Bronte Reappraised, ISBN: 9781912235056.
Fitzpatrick, J (2014) , Shakespeare Studies, 42, pp.75-90, ISSN: 0582-9399.
Boyce, C and Fitzpatrick, J (2017) A History of Food in Literature From the Fourteenth Century to the Present, Routledge, ISBN: 9780415840521.
Fitzpatrick, J (2017) Three Sixteenth-Century Dietaries, Manchester University Press, ISBN: 9780719081132.
Norwood, T (2022) , Pediatric E-Journal: Pediatric Palliative and Hospice Care, (67: Bereavement), pp.3-4.
Norwood, T (2021) , The Lancet, 398(10318), pp.2305-2306, ISSN: 0140-6736. DOI: .
Norwood, T and Boulton, J (2021) , Religions, 12(11), 976, ISSN: 2077-1444. DOI: .
Norwood, T (2021) , Tendon: Medical Humanities Creative Journal of the Johns Hopkins Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, (4: Breath).
Norwood, T (2021) , Life Writing, 18(1), pp.113-124, ISSN: 1448-4528. DOI: .
Norwood, T (2021) . In Cardell, K (ed) Essays in Life Writing, Routledge,ISBN: 9781032107394.
Norwood, T (2024)
Adiseshiah, S (2023) , Journal of the British Academy, 11(2), DOI: .
Adiseshiah, S, Culley, A, Shears, J (2023) , Journal of the British Academy, 11s2, pp.1-10, DOI: .
Adiseshiah, S (2022) . In Wallace, C, Escoda, C, Monforte, E, Prado-Pérez, JR (ed) Crisis, Representation and Resilience: Perspectives on Contemporary British Theatre, Bloomsbury, pp.21-38, ISBN: 9781350180857. DOI: .
Exhibition: Health from Cradle to Grave: Birthing Chair to Death Couch
Where: Martin Hall Exhibition Space
When: 27 March -23 April 2024
Gallery Opening times 12-2 Monday to Wednesday (excluding Bank Holidays)
Click here for full details.
Past events:
Research Panel: Professor Mary Fissell Johns Hopkins, Dr Sara Read and Doctoral Researcher Hannah Palmer, Tues 21 Nov 2023.
British Academy funded Symposium: 'Health & Medical Humanities in the Midlands', 27 April 2023. Read Hannah Palmer's account of this event in.
Research Panel and Publication Launch: Women's Writing about Health and Illness' Dr Jennifer Evans University of Hertfordshire and Dr Claire O'Callaghan from the Research Group gave papers on their articles in the special edition of Women's Writing co-edited by Dr Sara Read and Dr Jennifer Evans, 13 December 2022.
Research Panel: Doctoral Researchers Megan Constable and Rai Powell gave papers and readings about their practice-led creative writing doctoral research into representations of blindness and autism in YA fiction, 26 October 2022.