MEEGAN KENNEDY, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Brown University (2000), M.A. University of Virginia (1992), B.A. Yale University (1988). Dr. Kennedy's research interests include Victorian literature and science/medicine, theory and history of the British novel, nineteenth-century theories of visuality, fiction of empire, and gender theory. She has studied the role of seeing and representation in Victorian novels and case histories, and she is currently working on Victorian microscopy and theories of the eye. She is the book review editor for the Journal of Medical Humanities.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

• Revising the Clinic: Vision and Representation in Victorian Medical Narrative and the Novel. Forthcoming, Ohio State University Press, February 2010.
• "'A True Prophet': The Uses of Speculation in Victorian Sensory Physiology and George Eliot's 'The Lifted Veil.'" Nineteenth-Century Literature, forthcoming, 42 pp.
• "Some Body's Story: The Novel as Instrument," NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 42.1/2 (Winter 2009, forthcoming special issue on "Theories of the Novel Now").
• "Diagnosis or Detour? The Uses of Medical Realism in the Victorian Novel," Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net 48 (February 2008, special issue on "Interdisciplinarity and the Body"). http://www.erudit.org/revue/ravon/2008/v/n49/017858ar.html?lang=en
• "'Poor Hoo Loo': Sentiment, Stoicism, and the Grotesque in British Imperial Medicine." Victorian Freaks, Ed. Marlene Tromp. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2008. 79-113.
• "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://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Main?action=new, 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

• New research projects explore visual narratives (tables, charts, statistics) in Victorian fiction and science writing; and the changing uses of a rhetoric of wonder and the sublime in nineteenth-century science writing, especially in treatises on the workings of the eye and its analogue, the microscope.